By admin on June 1, 2010
Ian Robertson welcomes a new kid on the block. Replacing the Note on the What Diesel fleet, its bigger brother, the Qashqai, is already making a favourable impression on the family Having run the Sunlit Copper, aka Tango’d, Nissan Note for the past six months, it was time to wave it goodbye from the What [...]
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By admin on June 1, 2010
Andrew Carr takes a look at the facelifted Micra, and assesses whether Nissan has done enough to keep the car competitive Not so long ago, if you mentioned the words Nissan Micra, it would often be associated with learner drivers or a shopping car. But since the arrival of the all-new Micra in 2002, it’s [...]
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By admin on June 1, 2010
The Nissan Qashqai has scooped the What Diesel best medium family Car of The Year award, but do its honest-to-goodness qualities shine through when you’re paying over £22k for the privilege? It’s fair to say that no one has been more surprised than Nissan by the success of the Qashqai – it’s been a huge [...]
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By admin on June 1, 2010
Nissan’s little city car has received a shot in the arm, with a new 102bhp version of the familiar 1.5 dCi engine. Ian Robertson grabs his shopping bags to test the new urban warrior Those familiar with What Diesel will remember that I ran a Nissan Note as a long-term test car last year, and [...]
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By admin on June 1, 2010
FIVE + 2 = QASHQAI MPV? Even though the crossover/SUV segment isn’t the golden child it once was (say, 12 months ago), Nissan has managed to buck the trend with Qashqai. Boasting European sales of over 250,000 units (32,000 in the UK since it was launched in March last year), the Qashqai is proving to [...]
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By admin on June 1, 2010
With busy lifestyles meaning that vehicles need to be more versatile, Nissan’s new Navara X-Back aims to incorporate work and play in one package. Ian Robertson dons a hard-hat and Timberland boots to find out Think back a few years, when the idea of a pick-up would conjure up images of construction workers and tree [...]
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By admin on June 1, 2010
Nissan is the first to offer a pure electric car to private buyers in high volumes. Jesse Crosse takes a look Car makers have been flirting with hybrids for years (more than flirting in the case of Toyota and Honda), but pure battery electric vehicles have remained on the back burner as far as the [...]
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