Nissan News

Last summer, Nissan said it would launch a vehicle with revolutionary autonomous car technology by 2020, saying that the technology at present can detect and respond to certain emergency situations and that in the future it will allow drivers to use their time behind the wheel more productively...

Just a few months after the unveiling of the Nissan IDx Freeflow and NISMO concept cars at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, product chief Andy Palmer confirmed the compact rear-drive sports coupe was not only under consideration for production, but that Nissan “definitely will do one of...

Not all companies can boast car guys at the top management levels, but Nissan vice president Andy Palmer seems to count himself among that crowd in Nissan's latest Goodwood Festival of Speed video. That may be strange to hear, given Palmer's apparent distaste for the Toyota 86, Scion FR-S and...

Nissan’s latest vehicle destined to join the pantheon of 148 different Nissans that have appeared in the Gran Turismo video game series over the years is the Concept 2020 Vision. Originally designed for the virtual world, the striking concept has now leapt into the real world as a star...

Nissan’s stunning Concept 2020 Vision was originally designed for the virtual world of Gran Turismo, where it sits among a handful of equally-wild concepts designed in celebration of the popular video game’s 15th anniversary last year. However, Nissan was so pleased with the initial...

This weekend is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where Nissan is set to write history by becoming the first team to complete a lap of a sanctioned motorsport event on electric power alone, using its ZEOD RC plug-in hybrid race car. But that’s not all Nissan has up its sleeve for this weekend’s...

The Nissan GT-R is outrageous. Even if your exposure to seeing one has been limited to watching one race by on the street, or to choosing it in Gran Turismo, you know that it's larger than life in some respects. There's no surprise it continues to carry the nickname 'Godzilla' from the enthusiast...

Nissan is committed to introducing an autonomous car by 2020, but the automaker’s CEO Carlos Ghosn said the technology could be ready two years before that date. Speaking with Reuters, Ghosn, the head of the world’s fourth largest automaker, Renault Nissan, said self-driving cars could...

Nissan puts its 148 Gran Turismo video-game cars on one wallpaper.

Nissan is expected to introduce an all-new GT-R sports car for the 2016 model year, the highly-anticipated R36 model, and for the first time since the mid-1990s Nissan is developing its GT-R in close collaboration with a GT-R Le Mans racer. Nissan’s previous R33 GT-R first competed in Le Mans...

Nissan has revealed a new generation of its Pulsar compact hatch that is designed to go up against the Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf. The vehicle has been designed primarily for the European market, with production to take place at Nissan’s plant in Barcelona, Spain, and that means we...

Nissan surprised fans at the recent ZDayZ gathering in North Carolina with the unveiling of the 2015 Nissan 370Z NISMO, and we now have some photos and a video taken at the event. The 370Z already had a NISMO variant but now the car’s styling has received the aggressive new look the NISMO...

Crash tests are often horrifying demonstrations of what the laws of physics can do to a car. Here, the Nissan ZEOD RC seemingly defies those laws, focusing all of its crash energy into its purpose-built crushable nose cone. Over and over. In slow motion. DON'T MISS: Mercedes-Benz 300SL Wrecked...

At the ZDayZ enthusiast meet in North Carolina today, Nissan unveiled the 2015 Nissan 370Z NISMO. Keeping to the core of what has made previous 370Z NISMO models great, the 2015 model adds an aggressive new look, an available 7-speed automatic transmission option, and a new 370Z NISMO Tech package...

Nissan has confirmed that its upcoming compact hatch will revive the brand’s cherished Pulsar nameplate when it hits European showrooms this fall. There are currently no plans to bring the car to the U.S. so buyers here looking for a compact Nissan will have to stick to the Sentra or Leaf...

In 2011 Nissan showed the world that it is possible to take a gamer, put him through a driver development program, unleash him at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and see him stand on the podium after the grueling racing. The story of Lucas Ordonez, original Nissan GT Academy winner, and his journey from...

The Nürburgring-Nordschleife has become the world's development standard for sports cars and supercars, with lap times becoming banners to wave at the competition. Manufacturers seem to love the course because it offers a wide variety of terrain, speeds, and conditions in which to test and...

Despite the fact that the Nürburgring is completely different from almost any real world roads out there, car manufacturers continue to use the track as a testing bed for their cars. One of the most prominent is Nissan, whose 2015 GT-R NISMO equipped with an available N-Attack package managed...

Nissan is experimenting with a material that creates an air barrier around painted surfaces.

Extreme Turbo Systems has built the new world's quickest GT-R.