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 […]
Nissan LEAF: Green Car of the Year 2010
The Nissan LEAF has been named Green Car of the Year 2010, despite not even being on sale. Barking. I think we must be stupid. The Nissan LEAF was listed as a finalist for the 2011 European Car of the Year, which we found outstandingly peculiar as the LEAF is still not a production car. Perhaps we […]
Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet: Official
Nissan has released the first official photo of the world’s first SUV Convertible – The Nissan CrossCabriolet – which debuts at the LA Motor Show You had plenty of notice. We told you in April that Nissan were building a Murano convertible, and in August we told you that we had confirmation from the horse’s mouth that the […]
Nissan Cube’s woeful sales: Are they surprised?
Nissan are nursing dismal sales for the Nissan Cube in Europe despite stunning sales in Japan. But that’s because they’ve not allowed for cultural differences. Let’s start with the good news for Nissan and the Nissan Cube – it’s a big success in Japan, having sold more than a million in the last decade. It offers the Japanese a […]
Nissan LEAF makes Car of the Year 2011 shortlist. Stupid.
The yet-to-be-released Nissan LEAF bizarrely makes the shortlist for the 2011 Car of the Year Has the world gone completely barking mad? Why on earth would the Car of the Year panel include a yet-to-be-released electric car – The Nissan LEAF – which is inferior in every way to all the other cars on the […]
2011 Nissan GT-R Press Release
Nissan has released details of the 2011 Nissan GT-R. This is the press release. For 11MY, GT-R features improved engine output and torque, greater fuel efficiency, revised handling, a refreshed exterior with improved aerodynamics, revised interior treatment and new wheels and tires. The large number of enhancements for the new model year is part of […]
2011 Nissan GT-R: GT-R EGOIST & GT-R Club Track Editions added
Nissan has released details of the 2011 Nissan GT-R, which include more power and two new models – the GT-R EGOIST & GT-R Club Track edition. It may be that Nissan are following the Porsche 911 school of car updates by making endless changes to a car that ends up looking the same – the […]
Nissan LEAF to come with stand-by ‘Real’ car
It’s being reported that Nissan are planning on offering free petrol or diesel cars to all buyers of the electric Nissan LEAF to assuage ‘Range Anxiety’. Oh, dear. We did laugh. And not just at the irony, but more at the fact that we don’t think Nissan realise what they’re saying. It’s being reported that […]