Nissan has delivered the first two Nissan LEAF to customers in the UK today. Waltham Abbey dealer Glyn Hopkin was the delivering dealer. It’s taken a while, but Nissan has finally got the Nissan LEAF on the road in the UK, with the first two customers picking up their cars this morning. Nissan dealers Glyn Hopkin in Waltham Abbey had a […]
2011 World Car of the Year: Three finalists – one’s not a car
The Nissan LEAF has been voted as one of the World Car of the Year finalists in 2011. We’re not even sure it qualifies as a car. It looks like the WCOTY (World Car of the Year) is infected with the same set of vested interest as the European Car of the Year – they’ve […]
Nissan ESFLOW: Great toy – won’t happen
Nissan reveals the electric Nissan ESFLOW at Geneva, and it looks like great fun as a B-Road blatter. But it’ll never be built You all know we’re not overly impressed with the way makers of electric cars pitch their products. ‘They’ll save the planet’ they say. ‘The future of personal transport’ they cry. ‘Better and […]
Nissan LEAF: Price UP by £2k
Nissan has revealed that the price of the electric Nissan LEAF is rising to £30,000 – before it’s even hit the road in the UK. Weren’t the prices of electric cars supposed to plummet as soon as they went from being a tiny niche to something resembling real production? Nissan has – quietly – revealed that the […]
Nissan Micra DIG-S revealed
Nissan introduces the Nissan Micra DIG-S, a supercharged, 1.2 litre 3-pot with 97bhp, 68.9mpg and just 95g/km CO2 You do have to admire what car makers have done on the economy front in recent years. Much of it spurred on by legislation, admittedly, but impressive nonetheless. And what Nissan has done with the range-topping Nissan […]
Nissan ESFLOW: Electric Sports Car
Nissan has produced an electric sports car – the Nissan ESFLOW – which will do 0-650mph in under 5 seconds and will debut at the Geneva Motor Show. As Tesla has already proved, if you throw enough money at it, employ enough publicists (including self-publicists) and string enough laptop batteries together, you can make an […]
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars: The Japanese push
Nissan, Toyota and Honda have teamed up with a number of energy companies in Japan to promote and pursue Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars. We make no secret of the fact that we consider Hybrid cars a stop-gap solution to reducing reliance on oil. And frankly, unless you drive like a saint you’ll probably find you […]
Plug-In Car Grant: Eligible cars revealed
Government announces the list of cars eligible for the £5,000 electric vehicle subsidy. But there’s only one you can actually buy – the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. We’re almost in to the New Year, and the contentious government subsidy for buyers of plug-in, low CO2 emission cars is due to kick in from 1st January 2011. The […]
2011 Nissan GT-R: 0-62mph 3.0 seconds
Nissan has updated their Supercar – the Nissan GT-R – for 2011 with cosmetic tweaks and a power hike to 523bhp. 0-62mph now 3.0 seconds. That supercar for the PlayStation generation – the Nissan GT-R – keeps on evolving. And Nissan has been busy tweaking the GT-R for 2011 with a plethora of tweaks and […]
Nissan LEAF: 2011 Car of the Year. Good grief.
The Nissan LEAF has, rather farcically, been named the 2011 Car of the Year. Despite properly good cars being nominated. The Green Lobby is victorious. You may remember at the beginning of November we reported that Nissan’s Electric car – the Nissan LEAF – had been nominated for Car of the Year 2011. Which with […]