Nissan News

Are you an avid gamer who wishes you could turn your fantasy into reality? Then you probably already know about the Nissan GT Academy. Why aren’t you signed up and competing for season four? That’s right, season three (in the U.S.; the global competition is entering its fifth season) is...

Late last week, Nissan took the covers off its ZEOD RC electric Le Mans prototype, which it plans to field as a ‘Garage 56’ experimental entry in next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Nissan revealed the car on the eve of the sixth round of the 2013 World Endurance Championship at Fuji...

The launch of the R35 Nissan GT-R almost six years ago was an epic achievement for all involved with its development. After all, here was a car capable of outperforming exotic supercars costing twice as much, as well as being able to seat four adults in relative comfort and being easy to drive...

The Switzer Goliath is a Nissan GT-R that's been worked over to produce gobs of horsepower. Gobs, of course, is a very technical term that means "a whole hunk of." In this case, the gobs refers to a figure north of 1,700 horsepower, and that's plenty to propel the GT-R down the Dragtimes dragstrip...

Nissan will unveil a concept at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show that could hint at a new 240SX.

Infiniti will finally launch in its home market, potentially by the end of the year.

Kinishi Tanuma, Nissan’s new chief engineer for the GT-R, has some pretty big shoes to fill. He’s the replacement for Kazutoshi Mizuno, the man credited with making the current R35 GT-R the world-beating performance machine that it is. He was also a proponent of keeping the GT-R’s...

Nissan has promised to launch a fully autonomous car by 2020 and is committed to eventually offering the option on its full lineup of cars. Currently, the automaker is trialing a number of its Leaf electric cars fitted with its autonomous technology, just like the one featured in the video above...

The Nissan GT-R is a supercar for all seasons.

Just a few days ago, we saw Mercedes race an A45 AMG against a downhill longboarder in a beautifully choreographed video. Now NISMO takes it to the next level--literally. If there's any sport more insane than riding a wingsuit off the face of a cliff, we don't want to know about it. Just watching...

Apple's internet radio service will debut in select 2014 Nissan models.

Nissan recently confirmed that its next NISMO model will be a more extreme version of the GT-R, and now we spy shots of a prototype of just that car, caught while undergoing testing on Germany’s Nürburgring and some of the race track’s surrounding roads. The GT-R NISMO will be the...

Renault Nissan plans to use a Mercedes-Benz-developed compact car platform for its Infiniti Q30 hatch, which is due in 2015 and has been previewed in concept form at this week’s Frankfurt Auto Show. The platform, known as the MFA, can support a range of bodystyles as well as powertrains and...

Nissan executive vice president Andy Palmer has hinted that a concept previewing the automaker’s next Z sports car will be presented at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show in November. Nissan is expected to introduce its new Z next year, as a 2015 model, so the timing makes sense. Palmer made the...

Nissan’s all-new Rogue crossover made simultaneous debuts yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee as well as at the Frankfurt Auto Show taking place in Germany. Overseas, the new Rogue is called an X-Trail but both versions feature identical styling and a similar list of features. The new Rogue...

Nissan has been holding court in Southern California for the past few weeks. The reason? An event called Nissan 360, which sees journalists from around the world flocking to a location in order to test everything under the Nissan banner. This includes models that many folks never get a chance to...

Nissan is eager to get its new range-extended electric ZEOD RC race car out on the track. First, however, it has to actually build a working version. Construction on the first car is currently underway, and, per Nissan, it's nearing completion. That's a good thing because the ZEOD RC is slated to...

Late last year, a Nissan GT-R finished in ‘Bolt Gold,’ a unique paint finish developed by Nissan in celebration of Usain Bolt’s success at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, was auctioned off to help raise funds for the athlete’s charitable foundation in his native Jamaica...

No, the little robots you're seeing aren't prototypes for EVE, the futuristic plant-finding robot in the Pixar movie WALL-E. They're actually all little Nissans, designed to develop technology for the firm's future autonomous vehicles, and the behavior of each has been inspired by the way creatures...

Nissan has made a bold and somewhat unprecedented promise to offer an autonomous car by the year 2020. The move is part of Nissan’s aim to reduce the rate of accidents involving its cars to almost zero, a target several other automakers including Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Volvo are also...