Tests and Features

Carlos Ghosn: Low Fuel Prices Won't Nudge Automakers Away From Efficient Cars The accepted wisdom is that low fuel prices push consumers to shop for less efficient automobiles - but do the same market forces divert car companies from investing in eco-friendly technologies in favor of cheaper-to-develop, but thirstier drivetrains?

Choosing my top five favourite road tests for 2015 is no easy task, but since I’ve been asked to come up with a shortlist, here are my picks. The McLaren 650S and the Porsche 911 Carrera and Carrera S could have made the cut, much like the Mazda CX-3, but …

To keep a model’s sales flowing, there are two or three ways to proceed, ranging from simple (purchase incentives) to very expensive (start from scratch and design a whole new vehicle). Nissan recently invited us to get behind the wheel of the 2016 Altima, and I was anxious to see …

The pickup truck segment is very different from other vehicle categories. In fact, through the years, it has become a North-American cult product. Even if a large portion of consumers who buy this type of truck needs it for work, a more modest pickup would do the job in most …

Nissan just presented its new Titan to the automotive press. Actually, it isn’t the Titan, but rather a separate model called the 2016 Titan XD. The regular Titan will be unveiled next year, probably as a 2017 model. The folks at Nissan are well aware that their current pickup represents …

Nissan is trying their very best to increase the Titan’s popularity in America. And they chose Arizona as the location to introduce the new generation of their full-size pickup. The Tennessee Titans play in the Nissan Stadium; the concept is strong, and the redesigned version of the vehicle is very …

Last week, during the Los Angeles Auto Show, The Car Guide had the opportunity to speak with some high-ranking Nissan execs. During a formal but lengthy interview with the Vice-President of Product Planning Pierre Loing, we learned that the brand was seriously thinking about importing the Qashqai, a European SUV, …

The past is a funny thing. The further we get from it, sometimes, the clearer it becomes. Or rather, certain things seem to draw into focus while others fade away, reshaping memory in the same way a spotlight draws attention on a darkened stage. Contrast this against the immediacy of …

Ever since Nissan released the third-gen Maxima in 1988, they’ve been boasting about their four-door sports car. They even created a special name for it: the 4DSC (4 Door Sports Car). In the years that followed, the Japanese automaker tried to convince buyers that its full-size sedan was actually a …

At our “Canadian” test drive of the 2016 Maxima, there was an Acura TLX in the presentation room. It was made available to us so that we might compare it with the Maxima that we had just driven. Beige-grey in colour, it was dull next to Nissan’s beaming sedan—but all’s …