Electric Cars: Renault's the Leader, not Tesla!

by Mike Smitka During the GERPISA auto conference in Paris in June I stayed in a hotel with a row of electric vehicles parked out front. T...

Luke Aker’s 1996 Nissan Maxima

Film-maker Luke Aker decided to put up his beloved 1996 Nissan Maxima on Craiglist with a humorous video accompanying it - "Luxury Defi...

Nissan Datsun Go crash test results

The Nissan Datsun Go car which is aimed at the Indian market was recently tested for safety. The car failed spectacularly getting 0 out of p...

Toyota's Profits, Nissan's Lack

One year ago – 2012Q4 that is – Toyota lost money in North America, and made only modest amounts of money in Japan. Today is much different,...

China: all's well ... for now

Today VW claimed sales of 2.35 million units in Jan-Sep. Meanwhile GM's PR machine releases brand sales monthly. I track these, out of c...

Honda as Japan's Exemplar

...Make where you sell, and that's not Japan... For a while the impact on the auto industry of 3/11 – the earthquake and tsunami – and ...

Why site assembly in Mexico?

...tariffs are 0% on vehicles shipped from Mexico... Honda is building a full-sized assembly plant (200K units per year) as is Mazda; Nissan...

Would you like to own a used Olympics BMW?

Some great news for all Beemer fans here in the UK. BMW plans to sell off most of their Olympic fleet cars. This includes the 320d and 700 5...

The Industry in the face of the Euro's (partial) demise

...Eurxit and beyond... The Euro as currently configured is not sustainable, from both an economic and from a political perspective. Spain c...

Reverse Import Deja Vu?

...a strong yen should boost exports to Japan... In 1992 I wrote a paper about Japanese car imports, later picked up by the Economist, in J...

GE Joins Hands with Nissan

GE and Nissan has announced a joint, two-year R&D collaboration to speed up the creation of a reliable charging infrastructure for elect...

The Nissan Land Glider

One of my friends who works with Proton, the Malaysian auto maker mentioned that the Peugeot BB1 concept looks like the Nissan Land Glider....

First Leaf electric car goes to Nashville family

According to a news report, a family in Nashville, Tennessee, US, has become the first family to receive keys to the much talked about full ...