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A car dealership worker dubbed a Nissan Altima the “most ran-through car” he’s ever come across. 

Nissan may be in dire straits, but it’s not giving up on its luxury brand. Several new or updated Infiniti models are coming, and the 2026 QX60 leads the pack. The company must be strapped for cash, however, as the mid-cycle update isn’t as comprehensive as most facelifts in this…

On December 23, 2024, Nissan and Honda signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a potential merger. However, the negotiations didn’t last long before the two Japanese automakers parted ways. On February 13, 2025, the companies officially ended talks, partly because Nissan was against becoming a Honda subsidiary. While…

The second Tokyo E-Prix of the weekend was a masterclass in poise and patience from runaway championship leader Oliver Rowland, who delivered Nissan a fairytale home win on a hot and humid day, shorn of any of the rain of Saturday.

Stoffel Vandoorne delivered Maserati its first win of the Formula E season with a strategic masterstroke from 14th on the grid. In a disrupted Tokyo E-Prix, he executed a well-timed Pit Boost just before a red flag intervention to take the win.

Nissan is facing a tough future, and plenty of uncertainty ahead could force the company to shift Sentra production to the United States. Despite the brand’s global woes and financial struggles, sales were up 6.3 percent through the first three months of 2025 in America, driven mostly by its small,…

Believe it or not, the first rechargeable lithium-ion batteries were invented in the U.S. Even Early nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathodes were developed at Argonne National Laboratory. The lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery, too, originated in the U.S., with foundational work led by battery pioneer John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin.

The R35 generation of Nissan's GT-R is among the most significant modern sports cars, and not just because it survived a whopping 17 years on the market. This GT-R helped introduce the world to the joys of launch control. It offered astonishingly good traction management and stability control systems before…

The first order of business for Nissan’s new CEO is to put the struggling company into recovery mode. Drastic decisions were made from day one: slashing 20,000 jobs, closing seven factories, eliminating six platforms, reducing parts complexity by 70 percent, and halting the development of certain models. These are the…

I’m fascinated by the Nissan Rogue. At face value, it’s merely an average vehicle. It’s not powerful, it's not elegant, it’s not especially attractive, and it doesn’t really have any cool features. Not to mention it’s getting old. The current Rogue debuted in 2020 with a 7.0-inch touchscreen, which grew…

A new electric Nissan Micra is coming in 2026, which should have fans of the famed hatchback at least excited to see the nameplate return. But before it does, Nissan wants to celebrate the third-generation Micra’s 23rd birthday with a special reinvention of its one-off Micra 350SR.