Well, they are very practical, filled with features and stylish and ik not everyone wants a Toyota. Toyota makes reliable cars, no arguing in that and I like them, but there could be other factors such as what are you getting for the money because if you are getting something that's reliable and nothing else is good about it, what's the point? Reliability is one thing but that shouldn't be your only thing to consider, you could pay $65 grand for a brand new Sequoia and it will be reliable and durable for years to come but the rest of the car is very outdated, mediocre and overpriced for the money compared to something like a Nissan Armada which does not use a CVT, its RWD based, and you get a lot more for the money. Yes Nissan cars are not the most reliable, but you can't deny the fact that they offer a lot for the money and they usually make good engines, they have had their pluses and minuses with their engines but so did Toyota especially in the late 2000s era with that junky 2.5 inline 4 with oil consumption problems and of course their junky Turdcel. Also, the new 2021 Rogue seems like a huge improvement over the old one which felt like a penalty box with its low-quality interior and questionable build quality. At the same time, Nissan is also slowly ditching the CVT especially for the 2022 Pathfinder and Qx60 and the new Ariya is gonna be one hell of a competitor to the Model Y.

Someone in your area needs to jump on the business opportunity and open up a CVT gearbox shop, he’ll probably make a fortune! 🤣

The Rouge / Juke had a pretty weak gearbox, some wore out before 100k miles. They tried to make the Mitsubishi Outlander CVT cheaper but ended up making one of the least long-lasting gearboxes out there…

A google search will show how many problems Nissan is in. I wish they would pull out of America cause we already have enough problems between GM, Ford, and FCA. 

Seems like some folks have gone rogue from common sense.

Coworker had a 2008 Rogue with 300,000 miles.

It was on it's 3rd transmission though.

Apparently, the engines were good.

They are popular. People purchase things with their emotions, not with their brains. You can tell someone who wants one just how bad they are, but they will just say "Well I think I'll just take good care of it. It should be fine." 

You can't fix stupid. 

Lots of people own and drive vehicles from The Big Three as well as Hyundai/Kia, so that does not surprise me.

I wish some here would learn to differentiate between Nissan's recent cars and unibody crossovers and their trucks and ACTUAL SUVs.  Everything they make doesn't have a CVT and the trannys they use in the Armadas, Xterras, and Frontiers have been fine.  Those engines are fine.  The only real problems the Xterras and Frontiers ever had were related to SMOD from 05-09, something that's easy to detect and avoid.  That and replacing the diff breather.  And the Armada doesn't use the Titan rear end.  It uses a variant of the same rear end found on the Z cars and Skylines and it's quite robust.  Tacomas have had their own issues as have other Toyota models.  Same with Honda.  We aren't judging those brands by their handful of failures. Nissan looks to be rethinking the CVT thing, which is great.  The new Pathfinder is moving away from it and if their cars follow suit, they could put themselves in a great spot.  I didn't want to pay for a Sequioa (or its outdated tech) and sure as heck didn't want a domestic large SUV when my wife wanted one, so we bought a pre-unibody Armada and have been super pleased with it.