I really need to rant about Nissan cars now. IMHO.

WTF is Nissan doing? I mean, our own ETC is ruining nissan nowadays.

CVT Gearbox - In an Almera, Latio, it's great. But seriously, they fitted CVT to all vehicles. Seriously, a CVT in a X-Trail, Teana, Elgrand, Murano, Serena?!?!!? Doesn't make sense at all! (Luckily they don't fit a CVT in a GT-R, THANK GOD). CVT only saves fuel but it ruins all the fun. 6-speed auto would be great.

Design - Look at Almera and you'll know what i mean.

Warranty - Seriously?! 3 years only? Most car manufacturers offer up to 5 years warranty. Some with unlimited mileage??

Equipment - Equipment is not really what you call "a lot". They're even so proud that they've fitted a Blind Spot Monitoring System in the Teana, controlled with a switch from the 1980s. And the cars we received here is so ripped off, adui... extreme facepalm.



X-Trail - My family owned one since 2004 and we decided to keep it. Why? It's great! But look at the X-Trail TC brought in these days. 2.0 2WD only. The X-Trail used to be one of the best selling off-road SUVs but now 2WD? 2.0?! CVT??!!

Serena S-Hybrid - Serena is already well known for underpower. Now even worse, hybrid. And the biggest problem of all, the price tag.

I seriously hope that TC would just rethink about what they did. IMHO Nissan is getting backwards nowadays.

I ordered a Nissan Serena 2 weeks before Raya.   And had a very very bad experience with the way Nissan manage its sales services and customers.
Firstly, I was offered to trade in my Myvi at RM17K. Then I found out that other branches are offering me 21 - 23K. Hence, I ordered for sales cancellation at this branch, so that I can order from other brance. After 2 days of processing, this branch offered me 23K. OK I ACCEPTED. AND Very regret on this decision .

Following this, the branch sales person told me that CIMB always offer the lowest interest rate. After a week, I was informed that the offered rate is 2.59%. I was really frus that time, I personnaly call Affin bank Perak branch manager to check (A friend), he is offering 2.39% to the customer!    With all this hazzels and reapplication for the finance aid, my order had been delayed till after Raya.

Meantime, they told me that my prefered plat no is very hard to get, better to get runner for JPJ registeration. So I decided to work it out myself, and in just 1 hour, I get my prefered platno by only paying RM310, instead of RM360.

Now, the best part, when I am ready to handover my car and pick up my new serena, I FOUND OUT my car is in the showroom, serves as a showroom car, publicly view by the customers  . All the internal mats and carpets are covered with sand and foot print. Even worst, the plastic cover for the seats are removed! I cannot imagine a new car I paid, RM149K of a car, is like a used car inside!

Guess what the management of that branch told me? "We have insufficient place to keep your car, if you are not happy to put the car inside as showroom car, we have to put it outside, where it is open to the risk of scartches, hot sun and rain."

It was a horrible experience that I can ever get with Nissan's sales services. I made complains to the branch manager, sales manager, and at the end do some shoutings   at the sales office and phone calls.

Now the last message that I got was, I will be getting a new, another car, with the offered kits (GPS and reverse camera). Let's see how.

Its almost identical to the NV 200 van , thats the result of nissan cost savings strategy, too much items shared over the same platform.......

Brother, Polo and Golf and Jetta are not same segment, all having different width,  thread and wheel base .
Not like Nissan all Latio, Sylphy, NV200 , Grand Livina, Xgear and Serena all ridiculously same width,  thread  and suspension system even they are being sold at different car segment market.
Alright you just buy NV200/Hiace and spent 50k for adding accessories  then you can get MPV called "van with proper local distributor with warranty" loh.

Serena Hybrid Owners Alert....

I bought my car 3 months ago and love using it... especially for family outings.

Yesterday whilst getting ready to go out, my wife closed the rear boot quite hard and less than a minute later we heard a glass cracking sound.

The rear glass panel on the top section of the boot had cracked on the left and right side... from the top to the bottom.... a clean linear crack.

DO NOT SLAM THE REAR BOOT DOOR!!!

My wife is a petite girl but the downward momentum when closing the door can be strong and results (in my opinion) in the glass panel cracking.

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