[ggm]

How did VAG succeed? Because it's the same problems: culture fit, market fit. Nissan kept but focused on e.g. light industrial vehicles, ATVs and military while Honda plays at being Sony/Apple for cars? That could have worked.

But somewhere you need synergies. Common rail, for chassis, gearboxes, engines. Diverge on fit out, but share parts.

Nobody in Oz buys Honda Utes. Loads of Nissan tradie vehicles.

It collapsed because they didn't want to change.