Nissan’s Plant in Sunderland has become the fastest UK site to hit the 10 million car production milestone, 33 years since Nissan arrived in the UK. Recent news from Nissan’s Plant in Sunderland hasn’t been too rosy, with Infiniti production ending as Infiniti pull out of the UK and Europe, and job cuts as diesel […]
Nissan turns the electric e-NV200 in to an ‘ICE-Free’ Ice Cream Van
Nissan has taken their e-NV200 electric van and turned it in to an ice cream van, with Mackie’s of Scotland, for ‘Clean Air Day’ 2019. Nissan’s electric e-NV200 van is selling well as business starts to get switched on to the real benefits of running electric vans for deliveries in urban areas, cutting noise an […]
Electric Nissan e-NV200 sales UP 200% in 2019
Sales of the Nissan e-NV200 van have risen by 200 per cent in 2019 as businesses throughout the UK and Europe get switched on to electric transport. There is a lot of nonsense talked about electric cars as zero emission, because the electricity they use is often far from ‘clean’ and, just like ICE cars, […]
Nissan ProPILOT 2.0 to launch in Japan with HANDS-OFF Driving
Nissan is launching Pro-PILOT 2.0 in Japan this year on the Skyline, offering hands-free driving under certain circumstances as autonomous driving advances. Many of us have come across smart cruise systems in cars which allow a degree of control to be handed over to the car’s autonomous systems, but despite these advances allowing speed control, […]
Nissan GT-R 50th Anniversary Edition celebrates half a century of GT-R madness
Nissan is celebrating all things GT-R with the Nissan GT-R 50th Anniversary Edition to celebrate its half century. And it’s available in classic Bayside Blue. The Nissan GT-R is 50 years old this year, so naturally Nissan want to celebrate with a special model. And here it is – the Nissan GT-R 50th Anniversary Edition. […]
Nissan X-Trail gets NEW engines and a new Dual Clutch ‘box
Nissan has upgraded the X-Trail SUV for 2019 with a new petrol and new diesel engine and a new seven-speed dual clutch gearbox. The Nissan X-Trail is Nissan’s best-selling car around the globe (although not in the UK), and it conspires to be a bit more able than most of its ilk off-road. Which, if […]
Nissan LEAF e+ Tekna – the 62kWh LEAF – costs from £35,895 in the UK
The Nissan LEAF e+, the production version of the Nissan LEAF 3.0 e+, costs from £35,895 in the UK in range-topping Tekna trim. Having delivered the Nissan LEAF 3.0 e+ as a limited edition model to test the waters for a long-range LEAF, Nissan announced in February that the 62kWh LEAF was going to become a mainstream model, […]
Nissan City Hub – it’s the FUTURE for car buyers, say Nissan
Nissan has unveiled its first ‘Nissan City Hub’ in Paris, offering an immersive buying experience combining the best of dealer and online experience. There are big changes coming in the car world with the rise and rise of EVs and autonomous cars, but there are similarly big changes afoot for dealer networks, as the whole […]
Nissan Leaf long-term Review (2019)
We’ve got Nissan’s new 40kWh LEAF EV in for three months to find out how easy it is to live with an electric car in 2019. It’s bit over a year since the second generation Nissan LEAF arrived on sale in the UK, since when it’s gone on to sell a shed load (well, by […]
Nissan IMQ Concept – a glimpse of where the Qashqai is going
The Nissan IMQ Concept arrives at the Geneva Motor Show as a preview of what we might expect from the next generation of Nissan’s best-selling Qashqai. There’s been plenty of new supercar, hypercar and EV metal on the floor in Geneva, but this – the Nissan IMQ Concept – is perhaps more significant than all of them. […]