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Tim Pollard,
12 June 2012 09:11
Britain is on track to hit a new all-time car manufacturing high by the end of 2015. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders forecasts that car production is set to top 2 million a year in three years' time. That's enough to eclipse the 1.92m record set forty years ago in 1972. What's causing the increase in UK car ...
Nissan has announced that its Juke-R prototype will enter limited production on a build-to-order basis. Yes, really. Nissan Juke-R (2012): why so serious? The Juke-R is the result of the Nissan Europe Technical Centre in Cranfield teaming-up with UK motorsport engineering firm RML to stuff the powertrain of a Nissan GTR into a Nissan Juke bodyshell to create 'the ...
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Mark Hamilton,
27 June 2011 17:30
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn has announced the firm's 2011-2016 business plan. The Nissan Power 88 plan aims to increase Nissan's global market share and sets strong profitability targets for Japan's No.2 carmaker. Power 88? Sounds like an FM rock station. What's Nissan's plan about? Putting aside the interesting choice of name for its latest five year plan, Nissan have two main aims ...
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Sarah-Jayne Harrison,
09 December 2010 09:36
Tax exempt, Congestion Charge free and costing buttons to fuel. That's the claim from Nissan, which today revealed its new Leaf electric car will be available to lease in the UK from £397 per month. Nissan will take a £3850 deposit for a personal contract purchase scheme and then charge £397 a month. It confirmed the Leaf will be exempt from road tax, ...
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Tim Pollard,
08 April 2010 09:26
Nissan plans to re-enter some of the heartland markets it departed with the loss of the Almera and Primera, CAR can reveal. It's a U-turn from a strategy that saw Nissan desert mainstream models in favour of crossovers and niche cars such as the Qashqai and Note. In an interview at the signing of the Daimler-Renault-Nissan cooperation yesterday, the Japanese ...
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Guy Bird,
28 October 2009 14:00
The leaked official drawings of the new Nissan Micra might have revealed the conventional styling of the company’s new supermini, but they gave little clue to the dramatically lightweight new platform that underpins it. The new Micra will be significantly lighter and more fuel efficient than the outgoing car due to a ruthless pursuit of weight reduction on the new V-platform (V ...
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Tim Pollard,
14 May 2009 15:45
Nissan today revealed it had smashed its own internal lap record of the Nurburgring in the new R35 GT-R. For some this is manna from anorak heaven; of course, others will dismiss it as yet more hype about a rare-groove racetrack with little relevance to the man on the street. Whatever your view, it’s still pretty impressive. The new Nissan ...
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Ben Pulman,
18 March 2009 12:45
Nissan’s Qazana might seem like an out-there concept, but Nissan Design Europe’s vice president Alfonso Albaisa has told CAR Online that it'll keep many of the show car's cues when it goes into production at the company's Sunderland plant in the summer of 2010. For the full story of the new Qazana, check out the new issue of CAR Magazine ...
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Phil McNamara,
25 February 2009 09:41
London’s streets will be abuzz with Renault and Nissan electric vehicles during the Olympics, if the alliance pulls off an audacious bid to showcase zero emission cars at the 2012 games.Renault boss Patrick Pelata pitched the idea to Boris Johnson, the city’s mayor, during the recent world economic forum in Davos. ‘We have started discussions. We want to be a ...
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Ben Pulman,
27 January 2009 12:21
Nissan has announced prices for UK-spec 370 Z sports cars, and punters will be pleased to learn that the entry-level Zed will cost £26,895 – a mere £166 more than the 350Z. So what goodies do I get on my £27k Nissan 370Z? All cars of course come with a rear-wheel drive chassis and 328bhp 3.7-litre V6, but base-model 370Zs ...
