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Nissan has just delivered one of the world’s rarest GT-R supercars to an Australian customer. Sold at a special charity auction in late 2012, the winning bidder from Melbourne, Australia, paid $US187,100 for the stunning gold Nissan GT-R. One of only two made, the unique Nissan GT-R MY13 is a …

Nissan put itself on the V8 Supercars map at Winton Motor Raceway on the weekend, claiming its first race win in its return season to top-level Australian touring car racing. James Moffat took his and the Nissan Altima’s first race win in the V8 Supercars Championship on Saturday – the …

Nissan has established a new Guinness World Record for towing the heaviest aircraft with a production vehicle. The company set the record in the United Arab Emirates with its latest Patrol 4WD. The driver behind the wheel was able to pull a 170.9 ton (155,038kg) cargo plane for 50 metres …

Nissan and in-house tuning and racing arm Nissan Motorsports International (Nismo) has unveiled the new-for-2014 rules’ compliant GT500-class SuperGT machine, the Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500. The new race car will take part in the 2014 season of Japan’s SuperGT championship. From 2014, cars in the GT500 class of SUPER GT …

Nissan has released a video giving us an insight into how the magnificent twin-turbo VR38 engine in the GT-R is built. Only four master craftsmen, known as takumi in Japan, at Nissan’s Yokohama factory are sanctioned to build the engine for Nissan’s halo model in a clean room. GT-R owners …

New details have emerged on the much anticipated Nissan GT-R Nismo, due to be released in early 2014. A Nissan insider told Auto Express at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed that the 2014 Nissan GT-R Nismo will be capable of launching from 0 to 100 km/h in around 2.0 …

Nissan Motorsport V8 Supercar driver, Rick Kelly, will drive in the Bathurst 12 Hour as part of the company’s new ‘Nismo Global Driver Exchange’. Kelly, driver of the #15 Jack Daniel’s Nissan Altima in the V8 Supercars Championship and winner of the Bathurst 1000 in 2003 and 2004, will steer …

US wheels specialist, Vossen Wheels, has been keeping themselves busy lately. A few days ago, we brought you the new Lexus IS350 F Sport with gorgeous 20-inch Vossen wheels. Now, they got their hands on an already head turning Nissan 370Z NISMO and dropped a set of 20-inchers on the …

As the launch of the all-new Nissan Dualis draws closer, more spy shots of the crossover have emerged. This time the new model has been caught testing in Germany, where the Dualis (Qashqai in Germany) contributes to almost half of all Nissan’s vehicle sale in the country. Scheduled for debut at …

Entries ‘Powered by Nissan’ have dominated the LM P2 class at the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours as the Circuit de la Sarthe in France over the weekend. Nissan-powered entries finished in the top five positions of the ultra-competitive LM P2 class, with the first four of those entries also …

The perfect example of a moron can’t be demonstrated any better than the driver in this video. The incident happened in Russia where a moron driving, unfortunately, a Nissan GT-R tried to squeeze his way through busy traffic by ignoring a double line and driving on the opposite lane against …

Nissan has unveiled the world’s fastest electric racing car – the ZEOD RC, capable of reaching speeds in excess of 300km/h with electric technology. The ZEOD RC (Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car) will make its race debut at next year’s Le Mans 24 Hour. Nissan will trial variants of new electric …

Nissan-powered cars took the first three positions in the LM P2 class during qualifying for the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours tonight. Nissan’s LM P2 customer engine programme has gone from strength-to-strength over the last three years. In 2013 a staggering 15 out of 22 LM P2 cars will be …

Nissan has revealed that the 2014 Nissan GT-R Nismo will have over 425 kW (570 hp) and will lap the Nürburgring even quicker than the 7 minutes and 18 seconds lap time currently set by the 2013 Nissan GT-R. According to Nissan’s Executive Vice President, Andy Palmer, the Nismo-tweaked GT-R …