• Renault-Nissan partner with The Floow

    • 16 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Renault-Nissan Alliance has announced a new partnership with The Floow, making it the first motor manufacturer to monetize ‘OEM’ data through The Floow Insurance Telematics scoring platform The initiative will offer insurers scores through data originating directly from the vehicle architecture removing the [...]
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  • Nissan invests £100m in UK car plant

    • 3 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Five years after inventing the small crossover, Nissan today announces a new generation Nissan Juke is slated for production in the UK The estimated £100m investment is a further endorsement of the quality of output from the Sunderland plant, and a statement of Nissan’s intention to remain the undisputed [...]
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  • Nissan announces top shops

    • 16 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Nissan has revealed the finalists in its Bodyshop of the Year Competition 2015 as well the winners of its BASF Paint Challenge 2015 Nissan has revealed the top five bodyshops in its annual league table which forms the basis of its Bodyshop of the Year Competition The top five Bodyshops: Motor Bodies – Widnes, [...]
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  • Honda Takata saga continues

    • 9 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda is recalling around 163 million more cars in Japan to replace air bag inflators made by supplier Takata and around 45 million more cars globally, due to continuing fears over the potentially deadly defect At least eight deaths, all in Honda cars, have been linked to the airbag inflator, which can deploy with [...]
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  • Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall

    • 25 June 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    BBC reports that Japanese car giants Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi have expanded a recall of cars to replace airbags made by Takata The recalls had initially been issued in North America, but have now been extended to the rest of the world The carmakers said they were calling back a total of 32 million cars [...]
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  • Avis orders Europe’s largest EV fleet

    • 29 April 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    In 2014 AVIS ordered 400 Nissan LEAF electric cars and after successfully placing them through its leasing scheme has added the Nissan e-NV200 electric light commercial and passenger vehicle variants to its offering In addition, to continue to meet demand in the Danish market, the company has ordered an additional 60 [...]
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  • VMs hit with more recalls

    • 13 April 2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Nissan and BMW have said today they are recalling more than 165,000 vehicles globally due to potential fuel pump failures that could cause an engine to stall or not start The vehicles affected are 95,031 Nissan Rogue SUVs in the United States and Canadian markets from model year 2014, and about 70,500 BMW cars [...]
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  • Nissan to make AEB standard

    • 9 April 2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Nissan will offer automatic emergency braking (AEB) as a standard feature in all volume cars in Japan by autumn, starting with the hybrid X-Trail SUV it has unveiled Emergency braking and other pre-crash safety features - once found only in high-end models - are growing in importance for consumers in developed [...]
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  • US investigates Nissan recall

    • 23 March 2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    US safety regulators are investigating complaints that two Nissan recalls didn't go far enough to fix a problem with front-seat airbag seat sensors, the Associated Press has reported The probe covers nearly 990,000 vehicles in the US that were recalled in 2013 and last year because computer software may not detect [...]
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