Nissan announced yesterday that it plans to invest up to $2.0 billion USD for an all-new plant in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to support the company’s growth strategy in the Americas. The new plant, which will complement the Japanese automaker’s already two existing Mexican plants, i scheduled to kick off operations in late 2013. The new complex [...]
Nissan has just unveiled its newest racecar for the FIA GT3 European Championship and Japan’s own SuperGT league: the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3. Co-developed by Nissan’s in-house tuning firm, NISMO, and their official motorsports partner, JR Motorsports, the new Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 is powered by a 3.8L twin-turbocharged V6 that’s based on the mill [...]
Nissan North America has just announced pricing for the 2013 Nissan GT-R, which is currently arriving at certified dealers nationwide. Prices for the 2013 Nissan GT-R will start at $96,820 for the Premium Edition. For the 2013 model year, output has been bumped to 545 hp (from 530 hp), with torque now at 463 lb-ft (from [...]
This bit of news may seem a bit off-topic, but not really. What do Nissan automobiles and iPhone cases have in common? Well, pretty much nothing, until now at least. For those of us iPhone users, we all appreciate the brilliant engineering that has come from Apple over in Pasadena, California in the world with [...]
Recently there has been a bit of concern over the fact that the next Nissan Pathfinder will be a car-based crossover i.e. not a proper off roader. Nissan might also be off their rocker in thinking that their Frontier will be serious competition for the Chevy Colorado and Toyota ‘taco when the Ford Ranger goes [...]
Nissan surprised quite a bit of people—including myself—with the unveiling of their latest Pathfinder concept, the biggest difference being is that it’s no longer a tough, body-on-frame SUV, but a unibody crossover a la baby Murano. And coming down the news pipeline are some details regarding the Pathfinder’s big 2012 debut. Officials at Nissan apparently [...]
Ford recently gave us something that used to be Euro-only: the Fiesta, and it has been well received, but they will be pulling the Ranger. Due to this gap, Nissan seems to think that it will capture the Ranger’s sales: “We’re really the beneficiary of Ford pulling out of the segment,” says Al Castignetti, Nissan [...]
Fox Marketing has recently announced that it has a new tuning program in the works for the Nissan Juke as part of its 12 year anniversary making custom creations. Following the unauthorized Juke-R concept that was slyly crafted by Nissan UK, Fox Marketing comments “”When we first saw the Nissan Juke-R that Nissan UK built, [...]
What if the Nissan Leaf was bigger, could carry more passengers and be flexible enough to become a taxi? Well, then it would be known as the Nissan e-NV200 Concept. Based on the Nissan NV200 multi-usage vehicle, the Nissan e-NV200 Concept shows a near-future production version of a full electric vehicle designed to give businesses and [...]
At the 2012 Detroit Auto Show today, Nissan is showing off its new Pathfinder Concept, a production version of which will go on sale at Nissan dealers nationwide in fall 2012. Nissan said that the new Pathfinder is just one of the 20 new or redesigned products it plans on introducing to the market within the [...]
