Jon Reay

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    What you wrote didn't sound like the professional and informed comment of an established magazine editor, but the rant of a bitter keyboard warrior. 

     

    ...and this, your seventh ranty reply in here (with no other posts anywhere else, funnily enough...) would say much the same about you, so I'd suggest that now is a good time to call it quits.

     

    You've had your say – you disagree, we get it. Now, let's leave it at that. 

     

    Happy families now? Okie doke then.

  7. Posted

    No regrets here. Much, anyway. I do miss this though:

     

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    But in fairness it was starting to rust in irreparable places like wot all small 90s Fords do eventually. Might pick up a mint-ish one in a few years and show up Baggott's XR2.

     

    Also toyed with the idea of buying it back 6 months ago, but it's disappeared off the DVLA's database since then :(

     

    PRIZE: LED Lenser torch. 28 Lumens bright. 93mm long and will work for 47 hours on one battery. Shock resistant and weighs just 115g. Comes with two sets of batteries.

     

    #AccidentalPatridge

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    Oh dear, that is rather old. Thanks for reminding me. It even had Batch down as an editor and he's been in charge of Car Dealer since January! Doh! 

     

    http://nissaninsider.co.uk/contact-us/

     

    Ps - I take it that means you agree with all my other points, though? That's good to know...

     

    Batch does have a habit of doing that. Swear to God he handed me a shopping list the other day and he'd scribbled 'Editor - James Batchelor' on the back. 

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    I know you edit the Nissan Insider website and I can't help but feel that if Nissan's UK MD had said something like this, you'd probably have called it 'brave' or 'ambitious' - and Vauxhall outsells Nissan in the UK two-to-one. Tell me I'm wrong...

     

    Thing is though, Nissan have taken such a jump in sales (and let's be honest, product desirability) over the last few years that further growth seems entirely plausible. Look at where the Qashqai and Juke are compared to where the Primera and Almera were ten years ago – there's been quite a change. 

     

    Vauxhall, on the other hand, are almost exactly where they were in 2003. While Nissan are ploughing on into (and sometimes creating) new segments, Vauxhall have had basically the same model range since 1983. Aside from the Adam, which is a reasonably clever idea but badly executed and far too late to the party, the Corsa, Astra and Insignia have nothing new or remarkable going for them. 

     

    Current volume is all well and good, but before you start talking about stealing sales from other manufacturers, there has to actually be a reason for buyers to flock to the brand – and I just don't see there being one.