The electric Nissan Leaf was the darling of the EV industry, slapping the Chevy Volt in the face with its lower price as it took the top spot in U.S. electric-vehicle sales. However, a major issue with heat is starting to emerge, and that makes any sort of debut in the Middle East unlikely.
Switzer Performance, tuning specialists based in Ohio, has revealed their latest creation – a 1000+ hp Nissan GT-R. But make no mistake, this is no monster meant to be confined to the local drag strip; instead, the engineers at Switzer has managed to create a supercar with better road manners which, as claimed by Switzer, can be comfortably used for the routine soccer-mom chores without scaring the crap out of a budget sedan in the next lane. With the “Ultimate Street Edition” moniker, this supercar boasts no harshness generally associated with the performance-tuned vehicles.
For all those who turned away from the UK-based racing division’s tuned ‘Juke-R’ because of its hefty Dhs 2.2 million price-tag, here is some interesting news for you, this time from the Japanese at ‘Nismo’, because what we’re talking about is possibly the next best thing.
Nissan has announced that a 100% electric compact van, the e-NV200, will go into production at its Barcelona plant in 2013.
Nissan has revealed the Nissan Sylphy Concept, a compact sedan touted as a global car, which gives us every reason to think that we may quite possibly be looking at the future Nissan Tiida sedan. If we aren’t wrong with the thought, then the future looks exciting.
Here are further official pictures of the 2013 Nissan Altima sedan. The new styling is rather aggressive with much of the silhouette and details borrowed from its pricier sibling, the Maxima.
The legendary Nissan Patrol, alongside its other legendary Japanese rival, has created legends by traversing the toughest of terrains around the world. Over half a century ago, the Nissan Patrol, in its G60 form, had already traversed treacherous desert terrains, and that is way before it superseded the camel as one of the preferred choice of transport in the dunes of Arabia. One such legendary feat happens to be the historic crossing of Australia’s Simpson Desert back in 1960.
In a bit of surprise news, Nissan has announced that its over-the-top Juke-R crossover will be made available to buy in a very limited run on build-to-order basis. Orders will be taken for the next four weeks.
Visitors in New York got a glimpse of their to-be taxi at the Nissan stables at the 2012 New York Auto Show earlier this month. The 2014 Nissan NV200 is all set to take over as the new official taxi, after the New York City and Limousine Commission chose to replace much of its taxi fleet by late 2013.
When we were hanging out at the 2012 Nissan Micra’s GCC launch in the UAE, we heard that almost every British expat has had seat-time in its predecessors dating back to the 1980s, sort of like how everyone here has some experience with the Toyota Yaris. It is interesting then, that Nissan chose to finally launch the fourth generation in the Middle East to do battle with, what else, the Toyota Yaris.