The US twin to the Holden VF Commodore, the Chevrolet SS, has made a winning start to its racing career with veteran Jimmie Johnson guiding his VF/SS-styled NASCAR to victory in the weekend’s Daytona 500. Five-time NASCAR champion ...
Tags: Holden, Chevrolet SS Victory, Daytona
Nissan’s performance arm, Nismo, is set for a rebirth come Tuesday next week. Nissan CEO, Carlon Ghosn, is set to make a major announcement regarding Nismo’s future at 10:30am Tokyo time on the 26th. Back in late 2011 ...
Tags: Nissan, Nismo, Nissan vehicles
Nissan Motorsport has unveiled the race colours for its 2013 Nissan Altima V8 Supercars and its four-man driver line-up that will take to the grid at the opening round of the championship in Adelaide in March. Nissan Motorsport racing ...
Tags: Nissan, Altima, V8 Supercars
Nissan Motorsport has released a video of the team’s path to this year’s V8 Supercars Championship. Following the Nissan team’s unveiling of its four-car, four-driver line-up, with Todd Kelly, Rick Kelly, Michael Caruso ...
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Small turbocharged engines are marketed as delivering the power of a large engine, with the fuel economy of a smaller one. That's a tempting proposition, but our testing shows these small-displacement turbos are not delivering on the ...
The Nissan Altima mid-sized sedan will launch in Australia in October, likely with a price tag of less than $30,000. Speaking at the Australian media launch of the all-new Nissan Patrol, Nissan general manager of marketing Peter Clissold ...
Tags: Nissan Altima, Price, Sweet Spot
We just took delivery of our 2014 Mazda6 Sport test car. This isn't our first encounter with Mazda's redesigned mainstream sedan; we drove a pre-production car (sans badges) late last year and recorded a First Drive video. But it was ...
Tags: Mazda, Sport test car, mainstream sedan
Bosch has partnered with Nissan again to design a robust new connected multimedia system with navigation functionality that will help make Nissan a leader in connected content and services. NissanConnectSM with Navigation is available ...
Tags: Bosch, Nissan, connected multimedia system, navigation functionality
The US new vehicle market rose to 14.5 million units in 2012 on the back of rising demand for mid-sized and small cars in a nation famous for its ‘bigger is better’ buying philosophy. The 2012 result – which saw ...
Tags: US, new vehicle market, small cars, cars
Affordable mid-sized family cars have outperformed their luxury counterparts in the latest round of crash testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in the US. Thirteen out of 18 'moderately priced' mid-sized cars were ...
Tags: Honda, Suzuki Kizashi, Luxury Cars, car industry
As the year winds to a close,it is natural to look back and recall the high points.But,it is also useful to remember the lows,including those cars that disappointed.Here,we commemorate the worst models in our ratings. These are current ...
Tags: lowest-scoring vehicle, Jeep Wrangler, Scion iQ, Smart ForTwo
Proving paying more doesn't automatically equate to safer,some midsized cars do better than luxury models in the new frontal offset crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety(IIHS). Of the 18 sedans tested in the ...
Nissan has promised to substantially expand its currently limited range of hybrid models,as the manufacturer combats slow sales of its all-electric Leaf hatchback. Petrol-electric power is currently reserved for Nissan's Infiniti luxury ...
Tags: Nissan, manufacturer, petrol-electric power, Altima, Renault Fluence EV
Redesigned from the ground-up for 2013, the new Pathfinder drives a lot like a lifted Nissan Altima. We get the feeling that is exactly what Nissan intended. You have to wonder, though, how much more money would be in Nissan's coffers ...
Tags: 2013 Nissan, three-row SUV, SUV, truck platform
Japanese carmaker Nissan is planning to commence production of new 2013 Sentra compact car at its Canton Vehicle Assembly facility in Mississippi, US from the fourth quarter of 2012. According to the carmaker, it will hire additional ...
Tags: Nissan, Sentra compact car, Xterra SUVs, Titan pickup, NV commercial vans