IF refinement is the name of your game, off-roaders don’t come much better than the latest Nissan X-Trail. It’s quiet and serene even when the latest 170bhp diesel engine is being pushed for its best. And that best is well worth having, although it does cost a good deal more than the standard 148bhp diesel. [...]
Nissan 350ZPrice: £16,000-£28,500 Years: 2003 to present LOOKS and performance count for plenty in the coupÌ© category, which explains why the Nissan comes out on top. Few cars at any price handle as well as the 350Z, and the futuristic styling manages to tick all the right boxes, too. Better still, it’s cheaper than ever. [...]
ONE person’s dream car is another’s nightmare so which of those is Nissan‘s new Murano to you? PERSUADING the right people to drive your cars is big business. Firstly you decide what sort of image you want to generate for the vehicle and then you ask someone who fits the bill if they will kindly [...]
EVEN before its sensational new 350Z is launched, Nissan has announced that factory approved kits will be available to make it go faster and to stand out from the crowd even more. Not that there will be much of a crowd to stand out from – even with an increased first year’s allocation, less than [...]
Nissan has become the first car company to record a lap time for a fuel cell vehicle at the famous NÌ_rburgring Nordschleife racing circuit in Germany Frank Eickholt, a member of the Nissan 24 Hours NÌ_rburgring race team and Nordschleife expert, steered the 1.3 million euro Nissan X-Trail FCV prototype through ‘The Green Hell’ – [...]
NO sooner has Nissan’s revised Micra range taken to the streets than prices are effectively slashed by a whopping £1,735. This coincides with the holiday period when potential punters are typically more interested in a trip to Majorca than their local showroom. In a bid to tempt them to reverse the trend, Nissan has introduced [...]
Nissan has done exactly the right thing. Instead of trying to compete with the big boys on mainstream models, it is building excellent niche cars with huge appeal. First came the Note mini-MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) – a practical, family friendly car which is also huge fun to drive. And now comes the Qashqai replacing the [...]
Nissan and Toyota, the big success stories in car manufacturing of the last few years, believe the standard family hatchback has had its day. They have both launched new alternatives to the family hatchback, which look like mini 4x4s. Nissan‘s Qashqai goes further and is arguably better than Toyota’s Auris, but the principal is the [...]
THE QUIRKY sounding Qashqai is Nissan’s replacement for the Almera hatchback, Almera Tino compact MPV and the Primera family car. Designed to merge the styling cues of an SUV with the dynamic abilities of a family hatch, the Qashqai has to tackle two distinct market sectors – one that’s in decline (family hatches) and one [...]
THE QUIRKY sounding Qashqai is Nissan’s replacement for the Almera hatchback, Almera Tino compact MPV and the Primera family car. Designed to merge the styling cues of an SUV with the dynamic abilities of a family hatch, the Qashqai has to tackle two distinct market sectors – one that’s in decline (family hatches) and one [...]
