While the U.S. auto industry celebrates the impact of the government's cash for clunkers program on July sales, two events separated by thousands of miles should give pause to those whose world view extends beyond next week.
The cars of the future will run on electricity, most major automakers agree on that. What they don't agree on is how soon drivers will be ready to fully embrace electric power and how aggressively to push electric cars.
The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It's one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy awarded Tuesday to spur the development of fuel-efficient vehicles.
Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker, announced a series of steps Monday to deal with the economic downturn, including slashing its workforce by 20,000.
Not too long ago, I purchased a compact Nissan pickup to fix up and recondition, with a goal of making the little Nissan my own bass-thumping, color-laden "minitruck."
Nissan showed on Wednesday a spiffy electric car packed with a battery developed by the Japanese automaker to deliver more power than the type common in today's hybrids
The whispers that began in January were confirmed Monday: Nissan and Chrysler have agreed to make cars for each other, in a move that will be crucial to each company's success. And that has spurred speculation about even closer cooperation in the future.
If you are looking for some insight into what the automobile of the future will look like you could do worse than talk with Tom Lane. An American, he runs all of Nissan's Product Strategy anad Product Planning from his office in Tokyo.
A hush falls over the vast white design studio outside Tokyo. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is examining the concept cars that the company plans to unveil in late October at the Tokyo Motor Show, where every automaker's reputation will be on the line.
Toyota Motor Corp. says it will recall floor mats in 55,000 of its 2007 Lexus ES 350 and 2007 Camry models that, if not secured in place, could slip and get trapped under or over the accelerator. This could cause a car to accelerate even after the driver lifted his or her foot off the gas pedal.
While the U.S. auto industry celebrates the impact of the government's cash for clunkers program on July sales, two events separated by thousands of miles should give pause to those whose world view extends beyond next week.
The cars of the future will run on electricity, most major automakers agree on that. What they don't agree on is how soon drivers will be ready to fully embrace electric power and how aggressively to push electric cars.
The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It's one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy awarded Tuesday to spur the development of fuel-efficient vehicles.
Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker, announced a series of steps Monday to deal with the economic downturn, including slashing its workforce by 20,000.
Not too long ago, I purchased a compact Nissan pickup to fix up and recondition, with a goal of making the little Nissan my own bass-thumping, color-laden "minitruck."
Nissan showed on Wednesday a spiffy electric car packed with a battery developed by the Japanese automaker to deliver more power than the type common in today's hybrids
The whispers that began in January were confirmed Monday: Nissan and Chrysler have agreed to make cars for each other, in a move that will be crucial to each company's success. And that has spurred speculation about even closer cooperation in the future.
If you are looking for some insight into what the automobile of the future will look like you could do worse than talk with Tom Lane. An American, he runs all of Nissan's Product Strategy anad Product Planning from his office in Tokyo.
A hush falls over the vast white design studio outside Tokyo. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is examining the concept cars that the company plans to unveil in late October at the Tokyo Motor Show, where every automaker's reputation will be on the line.
Toyota Motor Corp. says it will recall floor mats in 55,000 of its 2007 Lexus ES 350 and 2007 Camry models that, if not secured in place, could slip and get trapped under or over the accelerator. This could cause a car to accelerate even after the driver lifted his or her foot off the gas pedal.
[HIT] Hello kitschy. How do you make a splash in Japan's booming minicar market selling yet another tiny box with an engine a third the size of a Honda Civic's? If you're Nissan, you dub your car Pino (after Pinocchio) and pitch it to young women who can't resist upholstery embossed with stars and sparkly hubcaps "inspired by snowflake crystals." And that's just the start of the cute-sell: A Nissan website also lets the ladies accessorize with stuffed animals and heart-shaped decals and then e-share the sugary visuals with friends. The payoff: Since the car's launch in January, Nissan has been beating sales forecasts by 15 percent while pricing the Pino's base model 23 percent higher than the Suzuki Alto, the plain-Jane mini on whose platform the Pino is built.
In tests designed to replicate low-speed impacts, the bumpers of several luxury cars failed to prevent costly damage. In one case, a Mercedes-Benz C-class sedan sustained almost $5,500 in damage when hit in its front bumper at a speed of just 6 miles per hour.
Nissan Motor Co., Japan's third-largest automaker, posted a bigger-than-expected 3.2 percent drop in quarterly operating profit as a customer shift toward smaller, cheaper cars hit margins, and it kept its full-year forecasts unchanged despite the weaker yen.
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. said it would halt production on Monday at all of its plants while Honda Motor Co. Ltd. plans to stop output at three factories after an earthquake cut supplies from a parts maker.
Way back in 2002 - before the war in Iraq, the collapse of the dollar, or $3-a-gallon gasoline - Nissan started thinking about what kind of cars it would sell in the 2008 model year. One of the results is the Rogue, which will arrive in showrooms this fall. The way Nissan went about conceiving the Rogue reveals the complexities of predicting what customers will want to buy five years into the future - and the risk of betting hundreds of millions of dollars on the outcome.
issan Motor Co. is recalling over 92,000 vehicles for faulty clutch and seat covering problems, the company and the Transport Ministry said Thursday
U.S. stocks opened little changed Friday as an inflation report generally in line in expectations kept investors at bay.
A key read on inflation showed core consumer prices meeting expectations, taking stock futures off their lows before the open.
Nissan has long lagged Toyota in sales. But in the world of high-performance racing cars, Japan's second-largest automaker leaves its rival in the dust.
The new Toyota Tundra, the Japanese automaker's first entry into the full-size pickup market dominated by U.S. automakers, got a positive review from an interesting source Tuesday: General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, who heads the automakers' product development efforts.
Life was already complicated for Carlos Ghosn before last summer. Complicated, but under control.
Why are you so insistent about an alliance with a North American producer?
Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan Renault, will touch down in Detroit on Thursday, November 16, to give a speech at the Economic Club.
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. ranks no. 41 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $83.3 billion in revenues, up 4.4% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 29 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $4.6 billion, down 4% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Ghosn's Gamble
Carlos Ghosn circumnavigates the planet in his Gulfstream 550 once a month. He typically spends two weeks in Paris, ten days in Tokyo, and what's left of his time in the U.S. and the rest of the wo...
Japanese carmaker Nissan said Friday it has pulled a raunchy commercial starring "Sex and the City" actress Kim Cattrall from New Zealand television after complaints over its content.
General Motors, Nissan and Renault said Friday they will work on a confidential review of the potential benefits of an alliance between the three automakers.
There are considerable risks to General Motors and CEO Rick Wagoner after his Friday meeting with Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of both Nissan and Renault, even though Ghosn is now on record saying he doesn't want Wagoner's job.
Carlos Ghosn said Thursday that he doesn't want the top job at General Motors Corp. even if an alliance is struck between GM and Nissan and Renault, his two companies.
Carlos Ghosn circumnavigates the planet in his Gulfstream 550 once a month. He typically spends two weeks in Paris, ten days in Tokyo, and what's left of his time in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
General Motors said Friday it would hold "exploratory discussions" with Renault and Nissan regarding a potential historic combination of three of the world's largest automakers.
It's not enough that Carlos Ghosn is running two global car manufacturers -- Japan's Nissan and France's Renault -- that are thousands of miles apart. Ghosn continues to conjure up new business strategies that disrupt his own company as well as the competition.
Consumers can't just put their faith in a trusted brand name when it comes to looking for a new car.
Nissan has been angering some neighbors of its Canton, Miss., auto manufacturing plant with its noisy attempt to change the local weather, according to news reports.
Nissan began shipping its Quest minivan to China Friday from the Japanese carmaker's factory in Canton, Mississippi, according to a newspaper report.
In the dream, they're cheering for him. Hundreds of workers on the factory floor, surrounded by new cars and trucks, all with their fuel doors open. A man glides from one vehicle to the next, openi...
Nissan led the field in a measure of new vehicle owner satisfaction produced by research firm and consulting firm Strategic Vision.
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Nissan Motor Co. (7201.TO), announcing record earnings for its fiscal year ended March 31, disclosed an ambitious new three-year plan that seeks to boost growth while establishing Nissan as one of the world's most financially disciplined car producers.
Carlos Ghosn has held jobs on four continents and speaks four languages, though not Japanese. FORTUNE's Alex Taylor asked Ghosn, with new Sony chief Howard Stringer in mind, how he managed as a CEO...
RUNNING A GLOBAL CAR COMPANY ISN'T AN EASY JOB. YOU'VE got to deal with hundreds of suppliers, thousands of employees, millions of customers, and a network of factories that produces tens of millio...
Traditional pickup owners wear their Carhart overalls and John Deere caps with pride, but here comes a fast-growing demographic--Mr. Modern Truck Guy. He lives far from the farm in a large metro ar...
Japan's automakers are launching a major assault on Detroit's one remaining sector of total dominance -- the full-size pickup truck market.
Ford and GM are in the crosshairs as Nissan's Titan pickup rolls into showrooms on Dec. 1. Nissan's first entry in the full-size category is a direct challenge to Detroit's fattest cash cows. (Ford...
Most people know a good car when they drive it. Unfortunately, most people don't get to drive that many.
Every good country song, it seems, has a pickup truck. But the latest pickups look ready for a night at the opera. That's especially true of the redesigned Ford F-150 (pictured above), the deluxe e...
Is there a vehicle that gets less respect than the minivan? Owners treat it like a people mover--good enough to haul kids and groceries but too downscale for trips to the country club. Manufacturer...
The miniskirt is back. The Mini Cooper is all the rage. Why not the minivan? Once the darling of the American family, the minivan has been upstaged by SUVs that carry the kids and the gear -- but not the symbolic baggage. Minivans, alas, have become an emblem of suburban surrender, the automotive equivalent of dishpan hands.
Recently, professors at Vanderbilt and the University of Colorado determined that car lovers use their brains differently than the rest of us. When they see an unfamiliar car, their brains process...
From its stunning introduction in 1970 until its whimpering demise some 26 years later, more than a million people bought some version of the Datsun Z. As a subculture, former Z owners are a tenaci...
Back when I naively thought that hot cars would turn me into a babe magnet, I wanted a 240Z. A picture in a car magazine convinced me that Nissan--then called Datsun--had created a Jaguar XK-E for ...
Americans can't seem to stop buying Japanese cars. Turns out the companies that make them look like pretty good buys too. Japan's Big Three--Honda, Nissan, and Toyota--have made huge inroads into t...
It was a foggy day in Detroit's northern suburbs, but from his office on the 15th floor of the Chrysler Group's headquarters, CEO Jim Holden could see storm clouds gathering over the auto industry....
As flocks of fledgling Web merchants are finding out the hard way, there's lots more to successful e-commerce than mouse clicks. To see how much more, look at the most challenging corner of busines...
During a weeklong tour of Nissan's facilities in North America in mid-November, chief operating officer Carlos Ghosn spent 4 1/2 hours under a hot Arizona sun driving a dozen cars, vans, and pickup...
Remember The Reckoning, David Halberstam's weighty 1986 bestseller that celebrated the success of Nissan and other Japanese automakers? Halberstam attributed their rise to cultural spirit, fierce d...
When Ray Adams of suburban Denver decided to retire his 17-year-old subcompact, he went to the local Nissan dealership expecting to settle for a used car. Then he discovered that he could buy a bra...
Just when Japan's automakers appeared to have been pushed to the brink, they were granted a reprieve in the form of the depreciated yen. After hitting an all-time low of 81 to the dollar in April (...
SEEMS LIKE only yesterday the Japanese were at the top of the world's car business. Now they're discovering what life is like in the pits. Nearly every day brings more dire headlines: SALES FALL 11...
What rights do you, as an employee, have to make a totally private phone call or to type a completely confidential message into the computer? Virtually none. The Fourth Amendment bars the governmen...
THE WAVE of restructuring that remade corporate America in the 1980s is washing ashore in Japan. It's called risutora, and it has become a mantra for managers of companies large and small. Two year...
HERE'S the good news: American business's campaign to improve quality is paying off so well that in many areas the Japanese no longer enjoy a clear lead. Now the bad news: While the quality gap nar...
FOR LIVING PROOF that Japanese automakers don't walk on water, look at Nissan. It's No. 2 in Japan, but in the U.S. it trails far behind Honda and Toyota. Since 1985 its American sales of cars and ...
THE NEW 1991 models will soon be rolling out, and all the attention is focusing on the superslick $64,000 Honda NSX, Japan's costliest sports car and its designated Ferrari fighter. Car buffs have ...
''If it ain't broke, don't fix it'' is a good rule to live by -- even when working for a Japanese automaker. So says Thomas D. Mignanelli, 45, named by Nissan to take over as chief executive of its...
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