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If you peruse the automotive sales charts in Japan, you'll quickly notice that Nissan's X-Trail holds top honors in the SUV category, a position that it has retained for three years running. Updates for the 2011 model year ...

Back in 2008, Nissan announced that it would introduce a diesel V6 in the U.S. market Maxima sedan right about ... now. Last we checked, there are no diesel vehicles available at American Nissan dealers and no immediate plans to offer ...

Want an oil-burning little box? Europeans can. They are able to get the boxy Nissan Cube with a Renault-sourced 110 hp 1.5 liter diesel engine, thanks to the underpinnings that are related to the Nissan Micra and the Renault Clio. The engine is only Euro-IV compliant, but regulations in Germany ...

Surprise, surprise. As much as many Americans clamor for oil-burning engines for their future automobile purchasers, the fact of the matter remains that diesel engines do not translate into sales in the United States. The latest ...

Click the new Maxima for a high-res gallery of 60+ photosAccording to Yo Usaba, senior veep of powertrains for Nissan, the upcoming clean diesel engine for the next Nissan Maxima may be paired only with a manual transmission. Although the stick would likely be the most efficient transmission ...

The latest Japanese automaker to announce their intent to participate in the Environmental Showcase that will be taking place in Hokkaido, Japan in conjunction with the G8 summit in July. Environmental and energy issues are expected to be the main topic of discussion at the meeting. Nissan will be ...

Click the new Maxima for a high-res gallery of 60+ photosAlmost a year ago, Nissan announced that they would introduce their first U.S.-market diesel engines in 2010 in the Nissan Maxima. While we still have a while to wait for the new fifty-state legal diesel V-6 to turn up, the car that will ...

Nissan has finally started selling the Tiida in Europe, the car Americans know as the Versa, and there are only a few changes between the two (aside from the name) in the engine bay.Although Nissan has not announced performance and CO2 figures (nor if it's got a diesel particulate filter or which ...

Nissan is going head-first into the diesel market. After the announcement about the company's new clean diesel technology that might pave the way for Nissan diesels in America, Nissan announced today it will launch a diesel version of the X-Trail SUV in Japan some time in fall 2008.This diesel SUV, ...

It looks like Honda won't be the only Japanese manufacturer producing new clean diesel engines that don't require urea injection to meet Tier II Bin 5 emission standards here in the US. Honda announced the new catalyst technology that they've developed last fall and now Nissan has devised a system ...