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  SEAT Ateca crossover finally revealed 1 Mar 2016 (News)
  or four-wheel drive, the boot is significantly larger than the Nissan Qashqai’s 430 litre cargo area. Power comes from a predictable range of turbo petrol and diesel units – predictable bar one, that is, with a surprise entry point to the Ateca range being a 1.0-litre TSI petrol
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  Geneva Motor Show 2016: SsangYong SIV-2 concept previews Qashqai rival 1 Mar 2016 (News)
  Here's SsangYong's follow up to the Tivoli, a Nissan Qashqai rival featuring some extremely esoteric design inspiration
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  Q2 is Audi's small SUV 1 Mar 2016 (News)
  Audi has pulled the wraps off its smallest SUV yet: the Q2. Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show 2016, the Q2 is shorter, wider and taller than the A3 Sportback and aims to compete with the likes of the Nissan Qashqai and Ford Kuga - but with a more upmarket fit-and-finish
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  Geneva 2016: Volkswagen shows T-Cross Breeze convertible SUV 1 Mar 2016 (News)
  . The soft top, four-seat convertible “offers a first look at a newly developed SUV model series,” says Volkswagen. And while the company is quite vague about what that might be, the clue is in the length: at 4133mm this is just 2mm shorter than a Nissan Juke. That makes this the basis
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  Geneva Motor Show 2016: Mitsubishi reveals electric crossover concept 1 Mar 2016 (News)
  Mitsubishi models, including autonomous driving. It also previews the future styling of the firm's smaller crossover models. In terms of size, the eX-Concept is compact, like a Nissan Juke or Renault Captur – cars a production version would compete against. The interior is very much
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  Comment: Geneva 2016 - Walk This Way to peak crossover 29 Feb 2016 (News)
  particular event (the Nissan Qashqai in this case), and then spawned an entire industry of copycats ranging from the sublime to the... Lotus APX . Want proof of our obsession with the heady combination
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  Nissan announces Primastar replacement, called NV300 19 Feb 2016 (News)
  
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  Geneva Motor Show 2016: Vauxhall Ampera-e electric hatchback announced 15 Feb 2016 (News)
  in excess of 100 miles on a single charge. Vauxhall says the car was built using the knowledge gained from the Ampera (to which the name obviously alludes), but while that was a petrol-electric range extender hybrid, this will be a full electric car, like the Nissan Leaf – a direct competitor
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  Geneva Motor Show 2016: A-Z of Cars 11 Feb 2016 (News)
  Ateca SEAT reveals the Ateca crossover, will it be good enough to rival the Nissan Qashqai. Skoda
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  Record number of UK-built cars exported in 2015 21 Jan 2016 (News)
  stability. Europe is our biggest trading partner and the UK’s membership of the European Union is vital for the automotive sector in order to secure future growth and jobs.” Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan were the biggest UK car producers in 2015, both building almost 500,000 cars. MINI
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  See 400 classics on track at Donington Historic Festival 13 Jan 2016 (News)
  such as Honda Accords and Ford RS500s taking on Nissan Primeras and Alfa Romeo 156. New for 2016 is a round of the Pre-1980 Endurance Series, making its DHF debut and bringing with it an unmissable mix of sports-racing, GT and Touring Cars such as Porsche 935s, Lola T282s, Chevron B26s and B19s, Porsche
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  Classic anniversaries marked at Silverstone show 11 Jan 2016 (News)
  . The Nissan Figaro Owners’ Club is also busy organising a big Silverstone Classic party for 25 years of the Japanese retro car, while the Viper Club of the UK will be popping the corks on its 20th birthday, and the Westfield Sports Car Club will be out in force
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  Renault-Nissan announce “affordable” self-driving cars by 2020 8 Jan 2016 (News)
  Renault and Nissan will between them release 10 models that include self-driving technology by 2020, the companies have announced today in a joint statement. “The technology
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  Ford completes SUV lineup with fine new Edge 8 Jan 2016 (News)
  the Audi Q5 and BMW X3, offering more space but at a lower price. It has a more natural rival in the Nissan X-Trail though, the latest version of which moved away from ‘utilitarian 4x4’ territory and into the crossover sphere. Five versions are available, all
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  New car sales up in November 2015 4 Dec 2015 (News)
  . It has been reported that Volkswagen sales are down 20 per cent in November versus October, but it’s too early to tell if the drop in sales is a direct result of the diesel emissions scandal, since unaffected manufacturers including Citroen, Lexus, Fiat and Nissan saw similar reductions in sales
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  New car registrations fall in October 5 Nov 2015 (News)
  to October 2014, while SEAT and Skoda reported a respective 32.2 and 3.0 per cent declines. Audi however reported a 2.2 per cent increase in sales. Ford, Vauxhall, MINI and Nissan also experienced declines in sales although year-to-date figures remain strong with 2,274,550 new cars registered so far
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  Hyundai launches premium Genesis brand 5 Nov 2015 (News)
  after Citroen launched DS as a separate brand while Nissan is still aiming to make an impact in Europe with Infiniti. Of course the best exponent of this is undoubtedly Toyota with the Lexus brand. According to Hyundai, Genesis models will feature the 'highest standards of performance, design
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  BMW 3 Series is the most reliable lease car 4 Nov 2015 (News)
  reaching eighth position in the table from 20 th place in 2014, while Ford fell three places from sixth in 2014 to ninth. Nissan rounded off the top 10, two places lower than it achieved in 2014. There was some noteworthy activity outside the top 10, with Jaguar placed
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  Five Grand Friday: Nissan Cube 30 Oct 2015 (News)
  leftfield for this week's £5k Friday. Step forward the Nissan Cube. If ever there was car with an apt name - this is it. It may not be sexy or sporty, but it has bags of character and you're guaranteed to never lose it in a supermarket car park. If there's the polar opposite of a silver
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  Comment: Will battery EVs win the alternative fuel battle? 25 Oct 2015 (News)
  During the last week or so, I’ve driven cars with three types of alternative fuel propulsion systems that will increasingly be of interest to fleet operators. First of these was the latest version of the Nissan Leaf, with greater energy density in its battery