Nissan News

With the looming thought of longer hours of darkness, lower temperatures and standing outside in the cold with a toasted marshmallow, Nissan has produced a series of consumer offers to warm everyone up.

Nissan has opened its new Engineering Centre, located within the Nissan Technical Centre (NTC) campus in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Construction started in October 2004 and was completed in September.

Within weeks of going on sale the all new Nissan X-TRAIL has been crowned ‘Soft Roader of the Year’ by specialist off road magazine 4x4 in its 2008 4x4 of the year edition. And that’s not all; for the second consecutive year the Nissan Navara has been voted ‘Lifestyle Pick-up of the Year’.

Nissan has developed its fourth-generation Advanced Safety Vehicle, known as the Nissan ASV-4. Based on the Advanced Safety Vehicle (ASV) Promotion Plan by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the vehicle is designed to help reduce accidents by employing advanced vehicle-to-vehicle communications.

Nissan has started the pre-launch activities in support of the all-new GT-R, the high performance sports car to be revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show on 24 October.

One of the best known small cars in the market today, the Nissan Micra, is undergoing a revamp for 2008 with changes to the styling, additions to the equipment list and a new grade structure – adding even further to Micra’s value for money proposition.

Nissan is gearing up for the start of the 2007 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships as headline sponsor for the first time.

The all-new Nissan X-TRAIL sport utility vehicle is off to a strong start in Japan with about 5,900 units ordered within its first week of introduction.

Nissan has announced that it will expand the production of its popular QASHQAI/Dualis mid-size crossover, adding new capacity at the Kyushu plant in Japan to meet high local demand and freeing up more capacity at its Sunderland plant in the UK for European sales.

At this year’s 62nd Frankfurt Motor Show, Nissan will be showing an all new concept car, a one-off show car based on an existing model and a heavily revised production car.