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Dodge and Nissan aren't bottom tier brands.

If Dodge was bottom tier, there never would have been an $85,000 Dodge Viper.

And plenty of people would buy a Maxima before they would buy a Taurus.

The Korean automakers (Kia and Hyundai) both entered the US market on the bottom, but they have comparatively high quality at the price points they started at, price points that other automakers sell plenty of vehicles at.

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Nissan is slightly moving upmarket but the amount of incentives they have to give out to sell is still way above industry average (which my comment was based on). Toyota or Honda have to barely discount their vehicles to sell, do you really thing Dodge or even Chevy can get away with that? They can't, thats why you can get $5-10k off MSRP on pretty much any Chevy right now, good luck trying that at Toyota. [1]

The Dodge Viper is a notable exception but even FCA realized that it hurt sales and spun it off as a separate brand: SRT, which they discontinued this year, and with it, the Viper is dead. [2]

EDIT: down voting doesn't change the facts I stated above.

[1] http://www.autonews.com/article/20170508/RETAIL01/305089965/... [2] http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a29664...

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