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Specific details regarding the Kia Niro EV's range won't be fully known until the 2019 Niro EV makes its world debut in Paris this fall; perhaps not until the Niro makes its way to Canadian dealers early next year. But early testing suggests that the Niro EV may well put an end to the range anxiety that has afflicted many electric vehicles to... Read more

Crown Vic? Hardly. This is a Nissan GT-R generously donated by a happy Nissan customer to the police in Tochigi, Japan. It is not destined for the show circuit. You've seen supercar police vehicles in the past: Dubai's Bugatti Veyron, the Caparo T1 rapid response vehicle, or Australia's BMW i8 cop car. But as often as not, the cars are... Read more

Never in the company's history has Nissan Canada reported more new vehicle sales than in June 2018. June resulted in 14,932 total Nissan sales, including 4,342 Rogues, 2,150 Qashqais, 1,636 Sentras, and 1,415 Muranos. In a national market that actually shrunk slightly, Nissan Canada sales grew 1 percent, year-over-year. In its first full month... Read more

Record December results cemented 2018 as the best year in the history of Nissan Canada. Thanks to record results from the Qashqai, Armada, and LEAF, Nissan sales rose 2%, year-over-year, to 136,536 units. Sales in Canada's Nissan showrooms have nearly doubled since 2012. In fact, 2018 was the Nissan brand's sixth consecutive year of growth; its... Read more

It's one thing to include Apple CarPlay/Android Auto integration to newly redesigned and refreshed models, as Mazda is doing with the 2019 CX-9 and some other upcoming '19 models. But now Mazda has taken the leapfrogging step of offering owners of many pre-owned Mazdas an Apple CarPlay/Android Auto upgrade. To make your Mazda Connect and HMI... Read more

Exhaust your theories, run your algorithms, complete all of your experiments. At the end of the day, a real, live, breathing driver is required to fine tune a vehicle. There may be no engineer better suited to the job than Albert Biermann. For over three decades, Biermann was on the BMW team. Eventually, from 2008 until his 2015 departure,... Read more

The Nissan LEAF is a great electric car, and also a great car. Often overlooked, the depth of the 2019 Nissan LEAF's appeal goes far beyond its high-capacity battery and long-distance EV range. There's something about alternative means of propulsion that cause analysts, reviewers, and even shoppers to focus on only one thing: range or charge... Read more

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the 2016 model year represented the fifth consecutive year in which Mazda was the most fuel efficient automaker. Conclusions are drawn based on vehicles sold during a one year period using combined (city/highway) fuel economy ratings, and are then weighted for sales volume. Based on these... Read more

Over the next decade, you will close your car door 45,000 times. That's right: forty-five thousand. 375 door closes per month. 87 per week. An average of 12 per day. The life of a door is not an easy one. So to make sure your Nissan's doors can live up to the rigours of real life, Nissan employs Rosie, aka Mrs. Doorboto. Rosie works at the... Read more

Huge increases in the demand for Nissan's utility vehicles in every corner of the world fuelled the company's overall growth in 2017. Over the 12 months of 2017, Nissan and Infiniti combined for more than 2 million SUV/crossover sales, a 12-percent improvement from 2016 levels. Much of that increase came from the Rogue and its partner... Read more

Unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 15, 2018, was the inspiration for a future Nissan compact SUV. It's called the Nissan Xmotion Concept. The Xmotion's three-row/six-passenger layout is highlighted by two types of traditional Japanese wood joinery: kanawa tsugi seen on the centre console and kigumi... Read more