NEWS

NISSAN has launched its ultra-rare GT-R SpecV in Europe – but the entire continent is only getting 40! Only TWO Nissan High Performance Centres will be selling it in the UK: •    Middlehurst Motorsport GT-R Merseyside •    Westway GT-R Oxford If you have an eye-watering £124,900 to spare, you can order now for delivery in [...]

NISSAN has rolled out a special website prior to the launch of the head-turning Nissan Cube in January. It’s described as ‘a unique virtual club for Cube fans and prospective buyers’. Forming what Nissan says is a ‘groundbreaking project,’ not everyone can access the site. To ‘get your name on it’, customers need a special [...]

NISSAN has won this year’s International Van of the Year award with the all-new Nissan NV200 small van. The model, which is rolling out to dealer showrooms now, won top votes from the 23-member jury. Car-like exterior dimensions, coupled with cargo capacity of a much larger van, were key to the decision. The Nissan can [...]

NEW car sales for October saw more big market share increases – led by scrappage winner Hyundai. Market share for the Korean brand was up 286 percent! That’s over 100 percent MORE than sister brand Kia’s otherwise-glittering 156 percent rise. Fiat’s sales were also up 117 percent, while Nissan scored 108 percent, Suzuki 106 percent [...]

NISSAN is encouraging new car buyers to order before the end of 2009 – by agreeing not to impose January’s VAT rise. This will be honoured even if the maker cannot deliver the car before the rise takes place. As dealers know, VAT is calculated on the list price at the time of delivery. Such [...]

MITSUBISHI is continuing its shift away from heavy off-roaders with the launch of a new compact SUV model. The firm will launch a new Nissan Qashqai rival at next year’s Geneva Motor Show. Based on the platform of the Mitsubishi Lancer, the new SUV will be first sold in Japan from February 2010 – to [...]

NISSAN has increased production of the Micra at its Sunderland plant by a huge 40 percent. The firm says this big rise is entirely down to the scrappage scheme. It is aided by Nissan enhancing the scheme, with its ‘extended Trade-in offer’. This sees cars aged 8-10 years eligible for the £2000 new car scrap [...]

NISSAN is showing probably THE most significant mainstream car of the show – the electric-car LEAF. Billed as a Ford Focus-sized five-seat family hatchback, it’s an electric-only car with a 100-mile range. It’s not based on any current production model, so the design has been honed specifically for electric drive. This makes it efficient, quiet, [...]

NISSAN is looking to build and sell the stunning electric two-seat LandGlider Tokyo Motor Show car. A designer in the project admitted that it has indeed been designed with production car intent. When pressed on a price, he said the aim would be to get the price tag in at under €30,000 – that’s around [...]

NISSAN is to launch world-first battery recycling scheme which will make electric vehicles cheaper to buy. The ‘second life’ battery project will recycle electric car powerpacks at the end of the car’s life. It means batteries now have a residual value, enabling them to be sold on – which, with clever leasing deals, will vastly [...]

NISSAN today gave Car Dealer Magazine a sneak first look at the next Nissan Micra – with a bold promise. The model is going to cost ‘noticeably’ less than the current car. At a no-photography briefing in Yokohama, Tokyo, Nissan said its strategy for the new model was to develop a more affordable model that [...]

NISSAN has used scrappage to push its market share above 4 percent, for the first time in 6 years. The UK-producing Japanese firm says key to this success are models built by the Sunderland factory – a staggering 82 percent of Nissans sold here last month were also built here. 16,908 sales helped snare it [...]

CAR makers have praised the Government’s decision to extend the scrappage scheme by 100,000 cars. Nissan has been a key proponent of the scheme – and has responded to Lord Mandelson’s announcement with its own extension. The firm’s ‘Trade-In’ offer, which sees scrappage extended to cars aged 8-10 years, will also be carried through with [...]

NISSAN UK managing director Paul Wilcox has added his name to the list calling for a scrap extension. Speaking exclusively to Car Dealer Magazine, the MD hit out at the Government for the lack of information on the end of the scheme. He says Nissan estimates the scheme will end by mid to late November [...]

CAR dealers are ignoring a reliable, long-running source of steady revenue, by overlooking Motability sales. Ron Gwilliams, Motability specialist at West Way Nissan Stourbridge, says that Motability provides: •    The opportunity to build up a large fleet •    Near-guaranteed aftersales •    High chance of repeat business every 3yrs •    Strong relationships with customers and families [...]

NISSAN car dealer Ron Gwilliams reports West Way Nissan Stourbridge has had its busiest 1st quarter for years. Sales between January and March were way above recent periods, the senior sales executive told Car Dealer Magazine. He was speaking to us after offering his views on scrappage – which, he says, has clearly led to [...]

NISSAN will, next year, become the first car maker to sell an affordable all-electric rival to the Ford Focus. The LEAF is a five-door hatchback with an electric motor that has a 100-mile range. Good enough, according to Nissan research, for nearly three-quarters of world car buyers’ daily drives. It will go on sale in [...]

NISSAN Sunderland has won a big new engine production contract, securing further jobs at the big plant. A new 2.0-litre engine will be built there from next year, saving 130 jobs and, in time, creating an EXTRA 200 posts. Nissan is to invest nearly £13 million in the new engine production facility – backed by [...]

NISSAN will later this week unveil a bespoke all-new electric car… but is teasing us before then with an insight. The Japanese firm has today revealed more details on its Tiida prototype, which is being used to develop the model due next year. What is it? An all-electric car, with 1.6-litre turbodiesel levels of power [...]

NISSAN car dealers can now offer a unique deal to 370Z buyers – the chance of a season’s racing! Anyone who signs up before the end of August will get the chance of a season in a Nissan Race Academy 370Z. This will come after a big shoot-out – and how will buyers qualify? Through [...]