Nissan

Why r/BuyItForLife recommends Nissan

19 mentions from real owners

• #1Dec 26, 2025

  1991 Toyota Corolla with over 939,000 miles exchanged as a trade-in.

  I've also seen Honda do it with a million mile Accord and Nissan do it with a million mile Frontier.

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• #2Dec 22, 2025

  What was the best purchase you made this year?

  Seiko SKX-007 Nissan rogue

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• #3Dec 1, 2025

  Gift Ideas for My Boyfriend Who Has Everything?

  I'd rent a sporty car for him for a day. If he doesn't have a favorite car that he talks about, his interests in watches, tech, and fashion lead me to believe he would enjoy a coupe made by Audi/BMW/Lexus, or possibly a Nissan GT-R or C8 Corvette.  Get insurance for the day too!

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• #4Nov 1, 2025

  1998 Nissan Frontier

  right? i only say mediocre based on fuel economy and towing and features. but if those things are ok with you, a frontier is the perfect truck. so many people with 90k trucks would be better suited with a minivan lol

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• #5Sep 4, 2025

  Brands That Used to Be BIFL — But Aren't Anymore?

  I’m shopping for a car. I won’t be ready to trade for about another 2 months but I’ve started looking. Last weekend I made an appointment to go to the Enterprise lot and see what they had. I saw a VW Tiguan on the lot and asked about it. The very helpful guy said that VWs quality has really declined in the last couple of years and he doesn’t really recommend them anymore because they’re not as dependable as they used to be. So I’ve narrowed it down to Honda, Nissan, or Mitsubishi.

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• #6Jul 1, 2025

  BIFL request: A thermos that actually keeps tea hot for hours

  I have an original green Stanley that works okay, good for hot coffee 6 hours later. The one that is better is the Nissan stainless 1L. I make coffee right to it with a cone filter pour over at 7am and it is still too hot to drink at noon.

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• #7Jun 6, 2025

  What is your most unintentional BIFL item?

  A Nissan thermal tumbler. Thing has to be over 30 years old now.

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• #8Jun 6, 2025

  What is your most unintentional BIFL item?

  My 2008 Nissan Altima. I didn’t expect to still have it with my daughter driving it in 2025. I’ve had that car longer than she’s had coherent memory.

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• #9Jun 5, 2025

  What’s one item you bought that way outperformed its price?

  This right here! I paid $100 for a 1994 Nissan Sentra in 2004. I don’t remember the mileage but it was fairly low. Paint was peeling off the car and it looked like it had a fungal disease. Not only that but the key was stuck in the ignition, it started just fine but wouldn’t turn back to off, so I kept the battery terminal loose and would just pop the hood and disconnect every time. I developed the muscle memory to not fully close the hood that I still struggle with to this day! The heater blower was also bad so frosty mornings I’d put my head out the window to see where I was as going. From this description it probably sounds like I was the sucker for buying the car. But the interior was really clean and comfortable. The little four cylinder sipped gas, I was getting 40+ driving as a teenager. It drove great, I used to set the cruise control at 104mph with all the windows down and felt like I was experiencing the same thrill as convertible sports car owners. We also used the car several times as a battle tank in paintball wars. There was an old oil refinery where I grew up and we would drive it through the abandoned buildings and crouch behind the doors and have shootouts. Was a really great car, I took it to college with me and once I graduated nursing school and sadly became stuck up and bought a truck. Gave it to my mom when she was in need of a car and I guess I never really thought about it after that, I’m not sure what happened to it. My current car is a 2008 Nissan Rogue I bought from a girl I met tinder for $2k 6 years later it’s still going strong and all I’ve had to do to it was brakes and a coil pack. Far less memories in this car but still feel like a boss and watching my net worth soar and pulling up in another Nissan that looks like it’s contagious. :)

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• #10May 10, 2025

  Brands you swear by that have Buy It For Life quality products

  Because you judge a cars reliability primarily by how much you have to do to keep it running… the biggest items - engine and transmission - are the ones MOST people think are the most important. Rams are showing great reliability from their old Hemi and the new i6 appears to be pretty solid too. Ford trucks are generally riddled with unique issues - however their V8s and more particularly their smaller V8s in the super duty - the non-diesel - are showing excellent reliability.. Chevy tends to suck overall. Their v8 diesel is no more reliable than Fords and the gas v8s have lifter issues that’s more of a when than an if problem. The 4 cylinder may be their most reliable - yet least desirable engine. The most reliable motor and transmission combos right now in truck world are from the Nissan Frontier v6, and the Ford v8 gas 6.8L specifically. Almost every other truck, including Toyota, has some well documented well known issue lurking that may or may not be a gigantic issue.

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• #11May 6, 2025

  What’s something you’ve had so long it feels like it’s legally part of your family

  My brother in law bought his first car at age 18? I think in 1992. Little Nissan truck. That thing is still going. My brother learned to drive with it 20 years ago. BIL’s kids are learning to drive in it CURRENTLY. It moved me in college and now helps me pick up my vintage furniture finds.

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• #12May 2, 2025

  Which is better for BIFL - electric or gas-powered transportation?

  Nissan leafs are also cheap due to short range and cost cutting design. The Leaf battery is not actively cooled so it dies faster than other EVs, even so you can drop it at a shop and for under 5k have a brand new battery pack put in, you can also upgrade your range significantly at that time for a bit extra. Meanwhile other EVs are happily whirring along at 200k +miles

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• #13May 1, 2025

  What's one item you've owned for years that's still going strong-and was totally worth the money?

  1998 Nissan 200SX SE-R (automobile)

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• #14Apr 7, 2025

  Me with the Golden Taco the day I bought it vs 4 years later... Still ticking with 530,000 miles!

  Nissan frontier, Ford ranger? They are a little bigger than you are asking for, but are genuinely smaller than you think.

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• #15Mar 12, 2025

  What's the most expensive item you've bought with the intention of keeping it for life?

  $4300 for my ‘96 Nissan Truck. driving that thing til one of us dies and there’s a solid chance it wins. and im in my 20s

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• #16Feb 6, 2025

  In an age of things designed to be replaced, what currently-produced 1) trucks, and 2) cars come closest to BIFL?

  Manual transmissions in 2025 are arguably less maintenance free than automatics. Automatics have come a long way. If I had to drive a car a million miles or something, I would not pick a manual transmission in 2025. I would pick the simplest truck I could, probably a Nissan given Toyota's recent issues, but I definitely wouldn't pick a manual transmission with a clutch, there's just no way.

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• #17Feb 6, 2025

  In an age of things designed to be replaced, what currently-produced 1) trucks, and 2) cars come closest to BIFL?

  Most cars aren't going to last a long time anymore, I'd say the closest will be any Toyota hybrid. Those have proven to last a long time. Stay away from all CVTs (not e-CVTs, those are very different). If you like trucks, I would say the Nissan frontier as it keeps the old V6 and transmission that they've had forever. They are actually quite reliable. I would not trust any turbo 4-cylinder truck or car to last more than 150- 200,000, mi.

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• #18Jan 5, 2025

  Has everything we buy reduced in quality over time? Has anything increased in quality or stayed high quality and durable?

  Well, take those claims with a big grain of salt. Sure *some* cars in the 70s/80s were crap, especially many American-built ones. But I drove 1970s Japanese cars well into the 1990s and never had an issue with any of them. Put 200K plus on several different Datsun (Nissan), Honda, and Toyota cars before selling them, never had one really break in any way that was permanent or expensive to fix. I drove an 1974 Datsun coast-to-coast four times in the early 1990s with zero problems. Friends had similar experiences with Japanese cars. American cars, however, were a different issue. I remember being stranded alongside the road many times in the 70s/80s in vehicles that were made by Chevrolet, Ford, Chryster, and AMC in particular.

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• #19Jan 5, 2025

  Large SUV BIFL Request

  There are many older cars knocking around in South Africa that have been passed down from one generation to the next. Toyota Hilux and Land Cruisers, Nissan 1400, a few VW models and various others that have been going steady for almost 50 years. The LC 70 models are still sold here and are easily BIFL cars.

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