The AIADA newsletter reported that Nissan North America expects as many as a third of its U.S. dealerships will sell its light-commercial vehicles starting in 2010.
Automotive News reports that Nissan’s push into new product fields — which may include delivery trucks, airport shuttle buses and commercial pickups — will require dealers to invest in their […]

Chrysler LLC and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. announced Monday new agreements for the supply of products between both companies that is expected to bring increased production to Chrysler’s north assembly plant in Fenton, Mo.
Under the agreement, Chrysler will manufacture a full-size pickup for Nissan at its Saltillo, Mexico, assembly plant. In order to accommodate that […]

Nissan announced that it will launch light commercial vehicles in North America starting in 2010, making its underutilized truck plant in Canton, Mississippi, the hub of U.S. production.
The first of three new products, all designed specifically for North America, will debut in the first half of 2010. Nissan North America named former Ford executive Joe […]

Britain’s biggest-selling 4×4 pick-up truck is being recalled so that an airbag problem can be corrected, after the vehicle received an “extremely poor” safety rating.
The Nissan Navara received only one star for the protection it offered its occupants in a crash test conducted under the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP).
Identification of the slow […]

The 2009 Nissan Murano was the best performer in new crash tests of midsize sport utility vehicles, according to results released today by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The Hummer H3 had one of the poorest showings.
The institute, which is financed by the insurance industry, said the redesigned Murano was the only vehicle among the […]

Despite an overall solid sales month for General Motors, deliveries of full-size sport-utility vehicles made in Janesville declined in January.The automaker reported Friday that compared to January 2007, last month’s sales of Chevrolet Suburbans were down 14.4 percent, whiles those of the Chevy Tahoe dropped 12.1 percent.
Deliveries of GMC Yukon XLs fell 19 percent, while […]

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. remains committed to diesel power for its Titan pickup in the U.S., a key product-planning executive told Inside Line at the recent Detroit auto show.
Tom Lane, Nissan’s corporate vice president for product strategy and the product planning division, says, “The market is a complete bloodbath,” but admits Nissan “could do a […]

Commercial vehicles manufacturer Nissan Diesel SA (NDSA) plans to increase its production capacity from 4 500 units to about 9 000 units a year from 2008, the firm says.
It recently completed a R10.9m expansion project at its Rosslyn facility in Pretoria.
“NDSA is confident that the recent growth in the local truck market will continue,” said […]