Arthur Goldstuck compares Nissan’s IDS Concept car combining self-driving and zero emission technology with the standard vision of a driverless car.
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Arthur Goldstuck’s stand-out gadget is not exactly something you can hold. The Nissan Leaf is a high-tech experience that rewrites the future.
Luxury auto makers are slowly warming to the idea of electric cars but the market could be captured by disruptive and innovative newcomers.
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A lot still needs to happen in the alternative fuels vehicle market before sales figures start to rise.
Jeremy Clarkson has angrily defended an episode of <i>Top Gear</i> in which he deliberately runs out of power in Nissan’s Leaf electric car.
Shares in Japanese manufacturers tumbled in the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake, as companies struggled to gather information from the stricken area.
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/ 10 January 2011
Nissan expressed confidence in how Renault is handling an international spy ring’s attempt to steal secrets about their shared electric car programme.
The new generation of electric cars is going further than ever before — or so current thinking goes, writes <em>Martin Love</em>.
France’s Renault, Japan’s Nissan and Germany’s Daimler on Wednesday launched a new partnership aimed at saving billions of euros.
Nissan said on Wednesday it would recall nearly 540 000 vehicles worldwide due to brake-pedal defects and faulty fuel gauges.
Nissan has unveiled a concept car that tilts to the side when going around bends to make drivers feel like they are gliding through the air.
In a year that’s seen a sense of apathy towards four-wheeled vehicles, Nissan’s juggernaut has muscled its way into many sought-after segments.
Nissan, Japan’s third top carmaker, reported a ¥233,7-billion annual net loss, its first yearly loss in a decade.
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/ 30 January 2009
Volkswagen SA said on Friday it had been forced to take steps to address the economic crisis and would shed up to 400 jobs.
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/ 27 October 2008
Doing the job of several vehicles, the Qashqai is difficult to categorise, writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 16 October 2008
The top 14 car-makers in the European market still had to cut emissions by 17% to reach the EU’s 2012 target of 130 grams a kilometre.
The Renault-Nissan alliance on Friday announced the launch of a new manufacturing project in South Africa.
"When Nissan sent out a press release inviting the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> to the upgraded Hardbody launch, I was somewhat reluctant as I thought we would have to do some serious adrenaline-fuelled bundu-bashing."
It’s bigger, it’s bolder, it’s brasher and, yes, it’s better. Nissan’s very popular but greying-at-the-temples X-Trail has been replaced by an all-new soft-roader bearing the same name.
Two ATMs, one in Boksburg North and one in Brakpan, were bombed early on Thursday morning by gangs of about 20 people, Gauteng police said. Brakpan police spokesperson Captain Petros Mabuza said an ATM at the Dalview Shell garage was blown up after about 20 people held up garage staff at about 1.30am on Thursday.
Casualty smells like pee and disinfectant. Red lino floors, neon lights, some of them flickering. Daniel is taken behind a powder-blue curtain, brown in some places. He tries to swallow his whimpers as he goes. In the far corner, somebody throws up. In the corridor, a doctor snaps at a nurse. Behind the front desk, a nurse snaps at a doctor.
"For me, the most difficult part of judging at the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists’ Car of the Year competition is not losing sight of the fact that I’m judging the cars not so much against each other as against their direct competitors in the market place." Gavin Foster rounds up the Car of the Year finalists.
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/ 20 January 2008
At least 10 people were killed, 10 critically injured and another 23 seriously injured in a bus accident on the R34 near Ulundi on Saturday, KwaZulu-Natal emergency services reported. The accident, involving a Greyhoud bus, took place on the R34 between Melmoth and Vryheid at the turn-off to Ulundi.
Only 10 years ago, Tata Motors unveiled its first car, a hatchback, that established the truck maker’s credentials as a car maker. On Thursday, the company unveils a car that will sell for just  500, less than half the cheapest car on the market.
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/ 2 December 2007
Two Pietermaritzburg toddlers were found safe on Sunday morning after spending the night in a hijacked bakkie, said KwaZulu-Natal police. Superintendent Henry Budhram said an Ashdown resident, who had heard radio broadcasts of the hijacking, went to investigate when he saw the Nissan double cab parked in Bhekezulu Road at 7am.
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/ 19 November 2007
Three robbers were killed and five others were arrested after they tried to rob a Coin Security van in Pretoria on Monday. National police spokesperson Sally de Beer said the Coin Security guards noticed they were being followed at about 9am on Monday morning by a black Nissan Navara on Christina De Wit Drive in Pretoria.
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/ 7 November 2007
Three men were arrested in Johannesburg on Wednesday in connection with an attempted armed robbery. ”The suspects were arrested in Braamfontein and they fit the description of the suspects that were spotted at Pick ‘n Pay in Jorissen Street while fleeing from the police,” said Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini.
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/ 16 October 2007
A container truck ploughed into six vehicles in Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg, on Monday, leaving 18 people hurt. Among the vehicles were a Hi-Ace taxi carrying ten passengers and a police bakkie from the Hillbrow police station.
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/ 15 October 2007
The public’s response to the South African Revenue Service’s (Sars) call on tax returns is satisfying but nowhere near what is desired, Sars said on Monday. ”We are satisfied, but it would have been better if we had gone as far as registering four million,” said Sars spokesperson Adrian Lackay.
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/ 25 September 2007
Last week, at the Gauteng launch of its reborn Uno, Fiat kicked off proceedings by setting us loose on a section of the Carnival City casino off-road route. This seemed a little strange until we heard that the Italian company now includes a raised-body version of the Brazilian-built hatch in its line-up, intended to make it more suitable for those pesky African and South American dirt roads.
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/ 22 September 2007
Talks to end a strike that has halted production at South Africa’s major car-manufacturing plants will continue on Saturday, Retail Motor Industry executive director Jakkie Olivier said on Friday. Workers in the motor-components industry went on strike on September 12 over wages.
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/ 20 September 2007
Talks to end the motor-components industry strike were to resume at 6pm on Thursday, the Retail Motor Industry’s (RMI) spokesperson Jakkie Olivier said. ”We made good progress on Wednesday and we’re set to begin talking at 6pm this evening. I think an agreement is imminent,” he said.