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Nissan unveils the world’s first “Intelligent Parking Chair”【Video】

Oona McGee
Feb 16, 2016
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You’ll never waste time pushing in chairs ever again thanks to this amazing new invention from Japanese car manufacturer Nissan.

Japan
(auto • cars • inventions • nissan • parking chair • technology • video)

Nissan builds an origami car to celebrate the fifth birthday of its Juke crossover 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Nov 11, 2015

It’s been five years since Nissan launched its compact Juke SUV/crossover, and the company is celebrating with a very special fifth anniversary edition: a full-size origami model.

Japan
(cool • Juke • nissan • origami • video)

Cosplaying taxis with monster drivers to offer free rides to cosplayers in Shibuya this Halloween

Oona McGee
Oct 25, 2015

Halloween in Japan keeps getting bigger and better every year, with cosplayers coming out in droves to celebrate the world of costumes and make-believe. This time around, Japanese car manufacturer Nissan is joining the fun with a fleet of taxis dressed up in Halloween costumes, complete with “monster drivers” behind the wheel.

The monsters and their vehicles will be helping fellow ogres and ghouls by offering free rides to people in costume in the Shibuya area on October 29 and 31. What’s more, the unusual vans promise to be so spacious, they’ll accommodate any type of outfit you’re wearing!

Japan
(cars • costumes • halloween • nissan • Shibuya • taxis)

Nissan has created a wacky concept car for people who aren’t interested in cars

BUSINESS INSIDER
Oct 14, 2015

Nissan has created a concept car for a segment of the population who care very little about cars.

It’s called the “Teatro for Dayz.” The oddly-named concept will make its world debut later this month at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show.

Japan
(cars • design • engineering • nissan • Tokyo Motor Show 2015)

Sports car or fighter plane? American tuner’s Nissan GT-R looks like World War II’s Zero

Casey Baseel
Oct 1, 2015

Somewhere along the way, people started calling Nissan’s GT-R, the company’s flagship sports car, “Godzilla.” It’s a fitting nickname, since the GT-R is intimidatingly powerful, and also because with a curb weight of 1,740 kilograms (3,836 pounds), it’s not exactly svelte.

Still, one American turning shop thinks there’s an even more apt comparison to be made that to the King of the Monsters, and has created a customized GT-R with its appearance based on the Imperial Japanese military’s World War II Zero fighter plane.

Japan, USA
(cars • GT-R • history • nissan • World War II • Zero fighter)

Drive off In an official One Piece Nissan Serena

Anime News Network
Feb 21, 2015

Nissan is collaborating with One Piece to offer a limited edition Serena Highway STAR S-HYBRID. Dubbed the “Thousand Serena,” a play on the Straw Hat Pirates’ Thousand Sunny ship, it features a special One Piece car wrap and hubcaps.

Japan
(anime • Anime News Network • cars • nissan • One Piece)

Honda readying a Fuel Cell Vehicle for buyers next year, just in time to challenge Toyota

Casey Baseel
Jun 28, 2014

Toyota recently announced it plans to begin consumer sales of a Fuel Cell Vehicle sometime around the beginning of 2015, which has the potential to be a huge step towards a more environmentally-friendly system of personal transportation. Rival carmaker Honda isn’t about to let Japan’s largest auto manufacturer have this new field all to itself, though, as it looks to be moving ahead with plans to start selling an FCV of its own within the country that aims to be the class leader in both performance and price.

Japan
(cars • environment • Honda • nissan • technology • TOYOTA)

Nissan has made a self-cleaning car

BUSINESS INSIDER
Apr 26, 2014

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Now that Nissan has revolutionized the rearview mirror, it has moved on to another problem: It is developing a self-cleaning car.

Global
(cars • nissan • Pull Partners • self-cleaning • technology)

Drivers spill the beans while saving the planet with Nissan’s two-seater electric vehicle

Philip Kendall
Apr 14, 2014

In October last year, Yokohama City joined forces with Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan for a special project dubbed Choi-Mobi Yokohama. Furnishing the historic port city with a small fleet of rentable, ultra-compact electric vehicles, Nissan set out to examine the feasibility of making such modes of transport commonplace in urban centres. Allowing anyone with a valid license to zip around the city – emission free, of course – for just 20 yen (US$0.19) per minute of use, ultra-compacts like the Choi-Mobi are tipped to be a useful replacement for taxis and private vehicles in urban areas in future years.

The concept alone was enough to have tech-heads and environmentalists alike grinning from ear to ear, but on April 1 this year, Nissan asked a group of Choi-Mobi renters to use their time together inside the vehicle to convey important messages to one another, telling not April Fools but “April Truths”.

Japan
(April Truth • cars • environment • nissan • technology • video • Yokohama City)

Mom gets BIG surprise with help from Nissan 【Video】

KK Miller
Apr 4, 2014

Kids do amazing things sometimes. They stun you with their simple creativity and boggle you with questions you never had thought of. Their sensitivity is also to be remarked upon. One little boy though, has shown Japan his amazing sensitivity and thoughtfulness and has given his mother the surprise of a lifetime.

Japan
(crying • dancing • Happy Surprise • heart-warming • nissan • singing • video)

I took Nissan’s ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’ for a spin, and it’s clear New Yorkers will love it

BUSINESS INSIDER
Dec 21, 2013

In May 2011, Nissan was selected to create and supply the vehicle that would be the exclusive New York City taxi.

That plan hasn’t worked out so well. A series of court decisions have blocked the City from approving the NV200 as the only taxi model, in part because it’s not a hybrid, according to the New York Times.

But Nissan still has the right to bring its taxi to the streets of New York, and it sold the first one at the end of October.

This week, the automaker invited me to get a closer look at the NV200 and take a spin around Manhattan.

Japan, USA
(New York • nissan • Pull Partners • taxi • technology • transport)

Nuts for Nissan: Man willing to give testicle for Fairlady Z

Master Blaster
Dec 5, 2013

It’s an age-old expression of a guy who wants something really badly, but who would have thought that a dude’s dangly bits could actually be indirectly used to acquire the goods or services he desired?

We can thank Mark Parisi for this revelation when he appeared on the American TV show The Doctors to share his lucrative ventures into being a medical guinea pig. The Las Vegas resident is hoping to parlay a donation of his testicle towards the purchase of a Nissan Fairlady Z (named 370Z outside of Japan).

USA
(370Z • Fairlady Z • medical • nissan)

Japan-designed New York City “Taxi of Tomorrow” put on display in Tokyo despite recent setback

Philip Kendall
Nov 21, 2013

In May 2011, Japan’s Nissan Motor Company was awarded the rights to manufacture a line of new generation yellow taxis for New York City, with the aim of replacing the myriad varieties of cabs on the city’s streets with one uniform design by 2020. Dubbed the “Taxi of Tomorrow” by the contest organisers, Nissan’s car was to become a major part of New York City life, and naturally came as a boon to the Japanese company.

Sadly, the project has stalled following a number of legal disputes and issues over accessibility, but Nissan is nevertheless exceptionally proud of its modern take on the classic yellow cab, and recently exhibited it for all to see in a temporary showroom in Tokyo’s trendy Ginza shopping district.

Japan, USA
(automobiles • industry • New York City • nissan • taxis)

Nissan to release new Skyline for the first time in seven years…and it’s a hybrid!

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Nov 12, 2013

A representative for Nissan announced the company will release a new hybrid version of their Skyline in Japan. This marks the first design change for the coveted sports sedan since 2006. We’re hoping this new version will be able to be imported to the US…

Japan
(HV • hybrid • nissan • release • Skyline)

Nissan rolls closer to self-driving cars, but is the world ready?

Preston Phro
Oct 8, 2013

Cars sure are great. They look cool, they go vroooom really loudly, and they can even get us around to different places much faster than just walking. But there are a few drawbacks, too, perhaps the chief of which is that they’re incredibly dangerous! Zipping around at high speeds reduces the amount of time we have to react to dangerous situations and this can turn even small mistakes into giant disasters.

Of course, that’s just a problem with everyone else, right? I mean, I know I’m a great driver–this wouldn’t be an issue without everyone else on the road. Fortunately, Nissan is working on just the thing to help keep me safe: autonomous cars!

Japan
(autonomous cars • cool • nissan • self driving cars • technology)

“It’s OK to stand out.” Nissan’s new stormtrooper ad campaign is awesome

Philip Kendall
Aug 27, 2013

The humble stormtrooper. Shot, blown up, punched and jeered at on a near daily basis while the rebels–whom some would call “terrorists”–get all the fame and glory. It’s in their very nature to remain inconspicuous in their plain white armour, marching along in neat lines and even dying with a regimented clatter of boots on the cold metal Deathstar floors, and for that reason are rarely given a second thought by either their merciless dispatchers or the movie-going public.

But there comes a time when even the loyalest of the Empire’s helmeted servants has to get their groove on, and Japanese car maker Nissan’s newest ad campaign is allowing them to do just that.

Internet, Japan
(cars • cool • movies • nissan • Star Wars • stormtrooper)

Companies Japanese People are Most Proud of

John Stuart Translations
May 18, 2013

On May 1, market researcher Risk Monster released the results of its first ever “Companies the Japanese Can be Globally Proud Of” survey. Conducted February 25 to 27, the survey received valid responses from 1,000 men and women between the ages of 20 and 69. A total of 200 companies with annual sales of at least 250 billion yen and a minimum of 5,000 employees were targeted by the survey.

Coming in at number one was…
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Japan
(business • manufacturing • nissan • Sharp • Sony • TOYOTA)

Japanese Companies Expected to Still Be Around in 50 Years: No. 3 Japan Rail, No. 2 Honda, and No. 1…

John Stuart Translations
Mar 15, 2013

Risk Monster, a credit management outsourcing service that calculates bankruptcy risk, recently announced the results of its first survey asking, “Which Japanese Companies Do You Expect to Still Exist in 50 Years.” The survey was conducted over the Internet on Feb. 25 and 26, and received 1,000 valid responses from influential individuals between the ages of 20 and 69.

Coming in third was Honda, second place went to the East Japan Railway Company, and grabbing the top spot was…
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