The new Nissan Qashqai was the UK’s best-selling car of 2022, and Volkswagen the best-selling brand of the year. It’s 24 years since a UK-built car topped the sales charts for the year, and that was the Ford Fiesta, but now there’s a new British-built car topping the 20-22 sales charts with the new Nissan […]
New Nissan X-Trail is the 2023 4×4 of the Year
The new Nissan X-Trail is declared 4×4 of the Year by 4×4 Magazine, as well as Best Medium SUV. The new Nissan Qashqai is Best Crossover. Nissan has had a bit of a busy last year or so, with the new electric Nissan Ariya finally arriving on sale in the UK to pick up the […]
Nissan celebrates the 250,000th LEAF EV in Sunderland with a LEAF-powered Christmas tree
Nissan celebrates the production of the 250,000th LEAF EV in Sunderland with a Christmas tree powered by the LEAF’s V2X. The car world may now be driving headlong into electric cars with new EVs from almost every car maker on the planet on what seems like an almost daily basis. But back in 2009, the […]
Nissan LEAF grabs another ‘Best USED Electric Car’ Award
The electric Nissan LEAF has grabbed another ‘best used electric car’ award at the DrivingElectric awards this week. There was a time, not so very long ago, when the only real choice you had if you wanted a proper car with an electric powertrain, was a Nissan LEAF. The real pioneer of EVs, Nissan’s LEAF […]
Nissan e-4orce 04 is Nissan’s new ‘Cherry Blossom’ Formula E car
Nissan reveals its new Gen 3 car for the upcoming Formula E series with more power, higher top speed and a new ‘Cherry Blossom’ livery. Formula 1 may still be the ‘Premier’ racing series, but with the world and his dog being coerced (and more) to move from ICE to EV, Formula E motor racing […]
Ford Fiesta regains sales TOP spot in October – but Nissan Qashqai is this year’s best-seller
New car registrations in the UK rose by 26.4 per cent to 134,344, with the Ford Fiesta regaining top spot. But it’s the Nissan Qashqai at the top for the year so far. New car registrations are still a long way short of numbers pre-Covid as its hangover and supply chain problems constrain production. Despite […]
Electrified Nissan Qashqai e-POWER and Juke Hybrid go into production in Sunderland
The new Electrified Nissan Qashqai e-POWER and Juke Hybrid go into production in Sunderland as Juke and Qashqai hit 5 million produced. You may not think of Nissan as a UK car maker but it is, producing the LEAF, Qashqai and Juke in Sunder land – and building batteries – and building more than Vauxhall […]
New Nissan X-Trail REVEALED – costs from £32k
The new Nissan X-Trail is finally revealed in UK guise, with petrol and e-Power hybrid options and five trim levels. Costs from £32,030. The arrival of the new Nissan X-Trail has been a long time coming, but Nissan has finally revealed the new X-Trail as the Qashqai’s big brother. With looks that are familiar from […]
New Nissan X-Trail UK debut on 6 September
Nissan announces that the new X-Trail SUV will debut in the UK on 6 September, more than a year after the new X-Trail debuted in Japan. The current Nissan X-Trail is a fine family SUV and is actually Nissan’s best-selling model globally, although in the UK the Qashqai out-sells it comfortably. That perhaps explains why, […]
Electric Nissan Ariya FINALLY starts to arrive in the UK
The first electric Nissan Ariyas, Nissan’s first new electric car since the LEAF arrived a decade ago, start to arrive in the UK. Nissan managed to go from EV innovator to falling behind the EV curve as it failed to deliver a follow-up to the ground-breaking LEAF, letting other car makers steal its crown as […]