
Chennai: Japanese automaker Nissan would begin exports of its latest sedan 'Sunny' in March, a top company official said today. After foraying into Indian market through its completely-built units SUV X-Trail and Teana, Nissan in 2005 inked an agreement with France-automaker Renault to set up a manufacturing unit at an investment of Rs 4,500 crore spread over a period of seven years. It currently manufactures cars Micra and Sunny from...

05:26 PM, Jan 25, 2012

Nissan India has hiked the prices of its Micra and Sunny models starting from January 20, 2012. Depending on the model, the hike goes upto 2.09 per cent. While prices of all the three variants of the Micra petrol are up by Rs 3000, the diesel variants will now cost an additional Rs 20,000. The petrol variants of the Sunny are now costlier by Rs 5000 while the prices for...

04:41 PM, Jan 20, 2012

I am driving the Sunny and heading to Mahabalipuram, did I do this before? Yes just three months back, but it isn't sunny this time, it's actually raining and a cool wind is blowing. The car is a Sunny but it's the new diesel variant. The diesel was in the pipeline but Nissan have gone ahead and launched the car much before schedule. Not just that, the car makes its...

06:06 PM, Jan 12, 2012

New Delhi: The week-long Auto Expo 2012 at the Delhi's Pragati Maidan kicked off on Thursday, and over 55 new cars by over 50 carmakers will be previewed and launched during the next six days. The hot wheels on display on Thursday include Maruti Suzuki's SUV, Hyundai's three-door version of the Veloster and a revamped Sonata. Nissan too has unveiled its Evalia, a 7-seater family car. India's largest car maker...

02:07 PM, Jan 05, 2012

New Delhi: Nissan India Private Limited (NIMPL) has unveiled their MPV, the Nissan Evalia at the Auto Expo 2012 in Delhi. Known world-wide as the NV200, the Evalia is Nissan's answer to Mahindra's Xylo and Toyotas Innova. We were the first to tell you about this MPV when we spotted a test mule last year. The Evalia is a seven seater. Sliding doors and three forward facing seat rows with...

11:28 AM, Jan 05, 2012

Think about it this way: India currently has about 15 cars per 1,000 residents. The UK has 560. Do you think Indian consumers will gladly accept a much lower standard of "motorisation" than the West already enjoys? One of the first big-ticket purchases of new members of the middle class is a car - and this quickly becomes a key asset for work, pleasure and quality of life. Thanks to...

03:30 PM, Jan 04, 2012

New Delhi: Passenger car makers offered huge discounts in December, as much as Rs 60,000-70,000, to attract buyers, in what has been a year full of speed breakers for the industry. But if you haven't bought your car yet, get ready for price hikes from January. Many car makers out there, Indian and multi-national, have announced price hikes in the range 1-3 per cent from January 1. December is typically...

10:28 AM, Jan 01, 2012

New Delhi: Car-maker Nissan Motor India is understood to have finalised a hike in the prices of small car Micra and the petrol version of premium sedan Sunny by up to 2 per cent from January, mainly due to adverse currency movements. According to sources in-the-know of the development, the company has already finalised the proposed increase. "The company is suffering from the falling rupee and rising yen. The input...

04:34 PM, Dec 13, 2011

I remember when I drove the Nissan Sunny in India for the first time and came back to office. Apart from everyone going 'sunny side-up' ten thousand times, the joookes on the ad were wearing thin. So the banter shifted to guessing the price. Everyone put the car in the seven lakh plus category, considering the features it had. But when Nissan announced the price a week later, it was...

03:15 PM, Dec 12, 2011

Joseph Campbell, in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces, explained the making of a hero. The hero starts out ordinary; gets a call to adventure; undergoes severe tests and on survival gets a great boon. After this, he returns to an ordinary life and uses that boon to improve the world. In the past 40 years, the world of business would have produced a handful of leaders who can...

10:58 AM, Dec 09, 2011

On this week's episode, catch the new diesel cars by Nissan and new racing carRB7 unveiled. ...

10:40 PM, Feb 06, 2011

Yokohama: Japan's Nissan Motor Co marked a major milestone in automotive history on Friday with the launch of the zero-emission Leaf, the world's first electric car to be mass-marketed. Nissan said the five-seater hatchback was rated with a driving range of 200 km (124 miles) on a full charge under Japanese test standards, more than the 160 km (100 miles) advertised under California's rules and 73 miles under the US...

11:20 AM, Dec 03, 2010