From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
Subject: Re: Ad said Nissan Altima best seller?
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>I too was puzzled by this obvious untruth. What I think is going on is that
>Nissan claims that the Altima is "the best selling new car namelplate in
>the US" (I think I have this near verbatim). Lee Iaccoca's statistics
>dept. would have been proud of that sentence.


Note that the Corolla/Prism are also new designs... but hey are not new 
"nameplates."  I guess Nissan doesn't even sell as many Altimas as
Toyota does Corollas, or there would be no "nameplate" qualifier.
