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There’s a collaboration between Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler that using Nissan Decherd plant to build Mercedes Benz 4 cylinder engines for Infiniti and Mercedes Benz starting in 2014. Nissan and Daimler will produce Mercedes Benz 4 cylinder gasoline engines together at Nissan assembly plant. The production of the engine will begin in 2014 and target capacity of 250,000 units per year. Nissan powertrain assembly in Decherd has begin in 1997 and now manufactures 4, 6 and 8 cylinder engines for the US production Nissan and Infiniti vehicles. The plant also houses crankshaft forging and cylinder block casting operations.
There’s nothing problem to collaborate with others carmaker. The important is they get win-win situation. Good luck for those carmaker.
Nissan’s motorsport, Nismo has released their second concept version of the Leat electric car at Tokyo auto show. The latest concept, called the Nissan Leaf Nismo concept is more sedate. The electric car has featured full carbon-fiber bodywork. Leaf Nismo concept bundles a rear under protector, front aero bumper, rear diffuser and extender side sills. It also added LED lighting upfront wiht 18 inch alloy rims shod. The car not upgrade much on power, only add more excitement and energy.
Source :- Insideline
Nissan and Infiniti are developing active safety technologies to ensure their car is best in the safety. Nissan Vision2012 is the company goal to halve the number of serious injury occur in its vehicle. Their aim is to reduce the number to zero and it ain’t easy task. They need to design more rigid and safer car. The technology features :-
Lane departure warning and prevention – using a rear-mounted camera, the vehicle can detect when it’s leaving its lane without indicating. It will audibly and visually warn the driver and help pull the vehicle back in to its line. This is helpful in case the driver is distracted and the vehicle leaves its lane unexpectedly.
Distance control assist – helps keep a safe distance from the vehicle in front, great for smart cruise control that can flow with traffic without driver input.
Forward collision warning – similar to Volvo’s city safe, the system can detect a potential collision and give early warnings to increase the likelihood of preventing an accident altogether.
Blind spot warning & intervention – using the same rear camera as lane departure warning, the system can detect a vehicle in its blind spot and provide a visual warning at first and intervene to prevent you merging into another vehicle.
Around view monitor (bird’s eye view) – giving the driver a clear bird’s eye view of what’s around the car, great for parking or reversing out of the garage.
Moving object detection – pedestrian and vehicle detection technology.
Source :- CarAdvice
It is good for carmaker to improve their safety in the car. I love the blind spot warning and intervention technology. It will give alert for driver and car to prevent accident..
Look funny of this car and it’s design almost similar with Perodua Kenari. Okay, back to Nissan Cube. Even though this crossover is failed in the North America, Nissan still have faith in the vehicle. Brian Carolin, head of Nissan North America’s sales, claimed that the Cube’s demand rose when gas prices went up and that Nissan was having a tough time keeping up with demand.
The Cube is powered by 1.8 liter engine was released in 2009 and 21,471 Cubes were sold in the US.
Source :- AutoWeek