Infiniti M hybrid coming in 2010

Nissan has been selling a hybrid version of its Altima sedan for the past couple of years but the core technology of the vehicle, the petrol-electric hybrid drivetrain, is based on technology borrowed from Toyota. Nissan has always promised to deliver a vehicle using its own proprietary hybrid drive system, and in August of last [...]

Wald adds Black Bison styling kit for Toyota’s Land Cruiser

Japanese tuning house Wald International has a wide range of styling and performance kits for nearly every major luxury car brand on the market, but this time the company has focused its attention on a humble Toyota, albeit one of the biggest Toyota’s ever produced. The car is the latest 200-series Toyota Land Cruiser, a [...]

Toyota F1 boss talks about the team’s close call with cancellation

Executives of the Toyota Motor Corporation considered following fellow struggling Japanese carmaker out of Formula 1, a top chief of the Cologne based team has admitted. Tadashi Yamashina, team principal and chairman of the marque’s motor racing arm Toyota Motorsport GmbH, told a news conference that the global financial crisis led Tokyo based officials to [...]

GReddy USA in safe hands following successful reorganization of Trust in Japan

Last September Japanese tuning and aftermarket parts firm Trust filed for bankruptcy in its home country, but despite the hairy situation the tuner’s U.S. extension, GReddy Performance Parts (GPP), was able to continue operating unaffected. As in the U.S., bankruptcy in Japan is a business tool of last resort for continuing to do business while [...]

Volkswagen CC Sales Speeding Ahead

Volkswagen continues to hold its own in the U.S. market. As many of VW’s competitors face steeper sales declines , the German automaker is continuing to focus on its new product offensive. This includes updates to the GTI for 2009, as well as the recently released Tiguan crossover. In addition to these and other all-new [...]

Toyota upgrades Pre-crash Safety suite with ‘probable accident detection’ radar system

Toyota already offers one of the world’s most advanced pre-crash safety systems for several of its high-end models, such as the Japanese-market Crown sedan and Lexus LS flagship, but the company has set out to improve its system by adding several new features. Simply called Pre-crash Safety, the latest version has been fitted with a [...]

MrDoricar says hello from Japan!

Thanks to MrDoricar, we get to see some raw drifting footage straight out of Japan.  Luckily, we get to see some rare footage of famous D1GP drivers such as Hibino and Utsumi teaching drivers how to drift.  We’d love to come out there one day but before we do, make sure you upload more for [...]

Nissan confirms Infiniti QX56 and Nissan Quest, Armada to be phased out of U.S. production

Large SUVs and minivans have fallen on the hardest of times in the industry’s late downturn, and casualties of the recession mount daily. Today’s trio in triage are the Infiniti QX56, Nissan Quest and Nissan Armada.
Nissan today confirmed in an email to Motor Trend that it would be bringing U.S. production of the three large [...]

Nissan developing system to prevent wrong-way driving

The incidence of drivers going the wrong way up expressway ramps in Japan is apparently high enough to merit a specific effort to combat its occurrence. Nissan is working on a system that combines GPS location, a map database and an advanced telematic computer system to warn drivers if they attempt to go the wrong [...]

More details on U.S.-spec Nissan Cube

The second-generation Nissan Cube made its world debut last November at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but specifications and information on the U.S. model were scant. New information has emerged shedding some light on what American buyers of the quirky hatch can expect, however, including power and pricing estimates.
A punchy 122hp (91kW) 1.8L inline four-cylinder [...]

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