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  • Nissan NV Cargo X, 2017 Chicago auto show

    The Nissan NV cargo van isn't all that exciting. Sure, you can get a V-8 in it, but beyond that, there's little to get the blood pumping. However, Nissan just made an NV that's really cool. How? Nissan teamed up with off-road builder and "Xtreme Off-Road" television show host Ian Johnson to jack it up with some beefy suspension, throw some mudders on it, and dump a Cummins turbodiesel V-8 under the hood. The result is the Nissan NV Cargo X project, and this one-of-a-kind creation is debuting at the 2017 Chicago Auto Show. ALSO SEE: 2018 Dodge Durango SRT: The family hauler gets meaner...

  • Nissan Vmotion 2.0 concept, 2017 Detroit auto show
    Nissan Vmotion 2.0 concept paves way for next-gen Altima

    Squint and you'll get a glimpse of the future with the Nissan Vmotion 2.0 concept car, unveiled on Monday at the 2017 Detroit auto show. Nissan says the concept wears an evolution of its V-Motion design theme. More specifically, the concept looks to us like a preview of the next-generation Altima...

  • 2017 Nissan Rogue Sport
    Nissan Qashqai comes to America as 2017 Rogue Sport

    Nissan’s popular Rogue compact SUV has gained a little brother in the form of the 2017 Rogue Sport. The vehicle was unveiled on Monday at the 2017 Detroit auto show and will be on sale in the spring. The Rogue Sport is America’s version of Nissan’s second-generation Qashqai, which...

  • How Nissan's VVEL engines work
    How Nissan's VVEL engines work

    The letters VVEL are important to the architecture of Nissan engines. Those four letters stand for Variable Valve Event and Lift. What that refers to is a Nissan engine that operates without the use of a throttle body. Instead, the air flowing into the engine is metered by way of the cams and...

  • 2017 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500 Super GT race car
    2017 Nissan GT-R Super GT racer revealed

    The third and final race car for the 2017 season of popular Japanese touring car series Super GT, the Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500, has been revealed. The will compete in the premier GT500 class alongside the new-for-2017 Honda NSX-GT and Lexus LC GT500 race cars, which replace the respective NSX-GT...

  • 2017 Nissan Sentra Nismo
    2017 Nissan Sentra Nismo revealed at 2016 LA auto show

    Nissan is spicing up its humble Sentra sedan for the 2017 model year. We’ve already had a taste of the Sentra SR Turbo, which packs a turbocharged 1.6-liter inline-4 good for 188 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque. And at the 2016 Los Angeles auto show on Wednesday, Nissan introduced a...

  • Alpha G Nissan GT-R sets new quarter-mile record

    You know the name AMS Performance. It's the tuning company turning out insanely powerful and wickedly quick Nissan GT-Rs. You also probably know the name Gidi Chamdi, as we wrote about him and his Lamborghini Gallardo when he used it to hit 240.64 mph in a half-mile airstrip run, securing himself the record. Now the speed freak is back with his AMS-tuned Nissan GT-R, and he's set a quarter mile record for GT-R owners everywhere to aspire to. The run took place at Milan Dragway in Michigan (not Italy). There, Gidi took his GT-R down the 1,320-foot strip of tarmac and tripped the lights with a...

  • 2016 Nissan Note e-Power
    e-Power: Nissan’s new series hybrid powertrain

    Nissan is one of the biggest proponents of electric cars but even it concedes that not everyone is ready to make the switch. That’s why the automaker is introducing series hybrid powertrains to bridge the gap between internal combustion cars and electrics. Nissan is using the name e-Power for...

  • Nissan Tsuru
    Circa-1990 Nissan Sentra to finally cease production in Mexico

    While Nissan in the United States is busy promoting its new turbocharged Sentra SR, the company's counterparts down in Mexico are marking the end of an era: the Nissan Tsuru, which was sold here as the Sentra in the early 1990s, is finally going out of production. With more than 1.8 million built...

  • 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport
    Renault Nissan to be a top 3 automaker following successful acquisition of Mitsubishi

    Nissan on Thursday announced the successful acquisition of a 34 percent stake in fellow Japanese automaker Mitsubishi. The deal, valued at 237 billion yen (approximately $2.28 billion), was first announced in May following the emergence of Mitsubishi’s own emissions cheating scandal, which...

  • 2017 Nissan Sentra SR Turbo
    2017 Nissan Sentra SR Turbo first drive review

    Faulkner famously told us the past isn't dead; it isn't even past. We can't prove it, but we think he had the Nissan Sentra SE-R in mind. The 1991-1994 SE-R set the cheap-car benchmark for a generation: a flyweight car with feathery controls and a lamprey lock on the pavement. Think ersatz M3 with...

  • 2017 Nissan GT-R Track Edition
    2017 Nissan GT-R Track Edition revealed

    The Nissan GT-R for the 2017 model year has undergone its most significant update to date. Nissan says the 2017 GT-R will eventually offer four models for customers to choose from. Two of these have been revealed in the form of the GT-R Premium and GT-R Nismo. Now we can add a third to the list...

  • 2017 Nissan GT-R Nismo

    Nissan today announced pricing for the 2017 GT-R Nismo in conjunction with the 12th Annual Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach, California. The track-oriented Nismo is priced from $176,585, a large step up from the $111,585 Nissan charges for the GT-R Premium model. CHECK OUT: 2017 Nissan GT-R first drive review The new Nismo features unique body work with carbon fiber front and rear bumpers, black outside mirrors with red stripes, and carbon fiber side sills and emblem treatment. It also has a handmade dry carbon rear spoiler with a special coating that allows the weave to be felt...

  • 2017 Nissan Rogue, 2016 Miami auto show
    2017 Nissan Rogue gets hybrid option

    Nissan’s Rogue has been huge hit for the automaker. Buyers in the United States snapped up 287,190 examples last year, making the compact SUV the second most popular model after the Altima in Nissan’s fleet, and this year’s tally is on track to be even higher. The roomier, more...

  • 2017 Nissan Sentra SR Turbo
    2017 Nissan Sentra SR Turbo pumps out 188 hp, thanks to the Juke

    It's been forever since the Nissan Sentra SE-R was a machine to be feared--but this year, a new Sentra SR Turbo gives us hope that its tossable, rev-happy spirit lives on. The 2017 Sentra SR Turbo gets its start as a stock Sentra SR, complete with its 124-hp, naturally aspirated inline-4. Yank that...

  • 2017 Nissan Armada, Press Drive, Carmel, California, July 2016
    2017 Nissan Armada priced from $45,395

    Nissan has priced its 2017 Armada from a very reasonable $45,395, including destination. That’s a rise on the starting price of the previous Armada, which in its last year on the market listed from a little under $40k, but the new Armada is a much more substantial vehicle. Its pricing also...

  • Nissan BladeGlider
    Nissan BladeGlider prototypes point to possible EV sports car

    Nissan unveiled the BladeGlider, an electric sports car, as a concept car at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show. Today, the company showed two working prototypes in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Like the concept, the prototypes feature a 1+2 layout for 3-passenger seating. The front end has a narrow track, while...

  • 2018 Nissan NP300 Navara-based SUV spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2018 Nissan NP300 Navara-based SUV spy shots

    Those lamenting Nissan’s decision to go with car-like unibody construction for the latest Pathfinder will be happy to note the automaker is working on a new body-on-frame SUV, though whether we see it in the United States remains to be seen. The vehicle is an SUV version of Nissan’s...

  • Nissan GT-R with turbochargers as headlights

    Nissan’s GT-R is one of the most popular cars for modifying, and with good reason. But there’s such a thing as taking things too far. Case in point is this GT-R with turbochargers where the headlights would normally sit. Yes, it makes the car look downright nasty, in a good way, but it also rules out nighttime driving, unless there are some hidden headlights that we can’t see. But judging by the roll cage also fitted to the car, late night cruises are probably not a priority for the owner. It looks like this GT-R has been tuned strictly for track use, but perhaps the owner...

  • 2017 Nissan Pathfinder
    2017 Nissan Pathfinder debuts with new look, more power

    Nissan’s fourth-generation Pathfinder has received some updates for the 2017 model year. The updates are significant and give the vehicle a fresh new look as well as more power and a host of extra safety gear. The most exciting of these updates is the new V-6. It still displaces 3.5 liters...

  • Engineering Explained on the Nissan GT-R's all-wheel drive system
    How the Nissan GT-R's all-wheel-drive system works

    There are few cars more complex and sophisticated than Godzilla, also known as the Nissan GT-R. Our friend at Engineering Explained, Jason Fenske, has a knack for making the most complicated topics far easier to understand, and his latest project is dissecting just how the GT-R puts its 565...

  • Nissan GT-R Drone
    Nissan's new drone can keep up with the GT-R on a racetrack

    Nissan is in the car business, but it has commissioned a special drone that is capable of keeping pace with the high-performance GT-R on a racetrack. The GT-R Drone, as Nissan is calling it, was designed by World Drone Prix Champions. Its most impressive spec is that it can reach 62 mph from a...

  • Nissan IDx NISMO (left) and IDx Freeflow concepts, 2013 Tokyo Motor Show
    Nissan's short-lived IDx concept to appear in 'Fast 8'

    The compact, rear-wheel drive show car we got so excited about at the Nissan stand a few years ago is back, but it isn't headed to dealers. Instead, as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson pointed out in a post on his Instagram channel, the IDx NISMO show car will apparently play a role in the upcoming eighth...

  • 2017 Nissan 370Z
    2017 Nissan 370Z preview

    Walk up to the counter, tell the Nissan dealer the trim model of the 2017 Nissan 370Z you want, take two steps to the left, hand the cashier your money, take your keys and go home. Nissan has announced the 370Z will live on for at least another year—the ninth for the current model (a Z34 to...

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