Sean McLain

forced his way into the car industry and his current place in the world. Honda's kind of like the engineering weirdo of the triumvirate of Japanese automakers.

Nissan, innovation that excites. Nissan, which was always the most storied, I would say, of the Japanese automakers, maybe not the biggest, maybe not the best known, but certainly the most storied. I mean, Nissan's name in Japanese literally means Japanese industry. You know, it was an industrial powerhouse throughout the sort of the mid-century till today.

Nissan, innovation that excites. Nissan, which was always the most storied, I would say, of the Japanese automakers, maybe not the biggest, maybe not the best known, but certainly the most storied. I mean, Nissan's name in Japanese literally means Japanese industry. You know, it was an industrial powerhouse throughout the sort of the mid-century till today.

Nissan, innovation that excites. Nissan, which was always the most storied, I would say, of the Japanese automakers, maybe not the biggest, maybe not the best known, but certainly the most storied. I mean, Nissan's name in Japanese literally means Japanese industry. You know, it was an industrial powerhouse throughout the sort of the mid-century till today.

So Nissan of the early 90s was known as a very engineering-driven company that, you know, the cars you bought from them were, in one sense, over-engineered. They were exciting to drive.

So Nissan of the early 90s was known as a very engineering-driven company that, you know, the cars you bought from them were, in one sense, over-engineered. They were exciting to drive.

So Nissan of the early 90s was known as a very engineering-driven company that, you know, the cars you bought from them were, in one sense, over-engineered. They were exciting to drive.

Nissan was the inventor of the modern electric vehicle.

Nissan was the inventor of the modern electric vehicle.

Nissan was the inventor of the modern electric vehicle.

Yeah. Well, if you remember, the Nissan Leaf. At the time, 15 years ago, it was absolutely groundbreaking. Introducing the 100% electric Nissan Leaf. Innovation for the planet. Innovation for all. And Nissan was the first company to bring a sort of mass market EV to the market and proved that they could make a EV... that could be a viable replacement for a gasoline vehicle.

Yeah. Well, if you remember, the Nissan Leaf. At the time, 15 years ago, it was absolutely groundbreaking. Introducing the 100% electric Nissan Leaf. Innovation for the planet. Innovation for all. And Nissan was the first company to bring a sort of mass market EV to the market and proved that they could make a EV... that could be a viable replacement for a gasoline vehicle.

Yeah. Well, if you remember, the Nissan Leaf. At the time, 15 years ago, it was absolutely groundbreaking. Introducing the 100% electric Nissan Leaf. Innovation for the planet. Innovation for all. And Nissan was the first company to bring a sort of mass market EV to the market and proved that they could make a EV... that could be a viable replacement for a gasoline vehicle.

Well, Nissan has placed a lot of the blame at the feet of a man named Carlos Ghosn.

Well, Nissan has placed a lot of the blame at the feet of a man named Carlos Ghosn.

Well, Nissan has placed a lot of the blame at the feet of a man named Carlos Ghosn.

Carlos Ghosn.

Carlos Ghosn.

Carlos Ghosn.

I don't know if everybody remembers the term BRICS, right? So you had your Brazil, your Russia, your India, your China, your South Africa. Carlos Ghosn's big bet is that there was hundreds of millions of people in these new middle classes emerging in these smaller, poorer countries that were all going to buy Nissans for the first time.