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Nissan announces top shops
- 16/07/2015
- 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, [...] -
Honda Takata saga continues
- 09/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Honda is recalling around 1.63 million more cars in Japan to replace air bag inflators made by supplier Takata and around 4.5 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 [...] -
Japanese carmakers expand Takata airbag recall
- 25/06/2015
- 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 3.2 million cars [...] -
Avis orders Europe’s largest EV fleet
- 29/04/2015
- 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 [...] -
VMs hit with more recalls
- 13/04/2015
- 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 [...] -
Nissan to make AEB standard
- 09/04/2015
- 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 [...] -
US investigates Nissan recall
- 23/03/2015
- 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 [...]