I think with Mazda trying to scale up their lineup to be more "luxury oriented" they don't really fit in any category properly anymore. They do build nice cars but are still somehow too expensive to fit in the Asian competitors and too cheap to fit in with the Germans.
Nissan is still a "cheap" car brand but they seem to have lost their R&D department somewhere over the last decade. Infinity similar minus the "cheap".
Mitsubishi.. should probably get new management or pull out soon with only 3 vehicles and poor sales. They wont die as a company (too big in Japan).
Just my opinion!
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