I believe the reason the intermittant is out on the 2002 is because they found that most people only turn in on when the weather's that crummy.

Picture a road you're driving and its pouring rain do you want intermittant action? I think not! So you turn to the Nissan-geneers who figure you're only gonna switch it on when all hell breaks loose.

They save the expense and if we want intermittant, we have to make it that way ourselves.