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5. Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet
We are so glad that our friends at Nissan gave us a brand new 2012 entry for this list. The company does some fabulous cars: the GT-R, the Z, the Altima and Maxima. Seriously, we can recommend all of those vehicles.
But ask Nissan executives about the Nissan Murano CrossCabrio and we get the idea we asked them about their crazy brother who sleeps in the basement watching QVC for entertainment and keeps burning holes in his blanket with cigarettes.
C’mon boys. It’s 2012. These kinds of mistakes and exercises in futility should be over. Yet, the CEO most of us think of as one of the top two or three smartest in the industry, Carlos Ghosn, is said to have not only green-lighted this monstrosity, but ordered it up in the first place.
Priced at $44,540 and pitched as the first crossover convertible to hit the market, the car is becoming a legend as one of the great CEO boondoggles of all-time, perhaps displacing Jac Nasser’s Blackwood for the 21st century honor.
Why it’s so dumb? Nothing about this vehicle pencils. The price, the design…nothing. The business brief never made it through the company’s process honestly. It couldn’t have. It was a hunch, and a bad one at that.
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