Nissan

So much for that skepticism. Lets just hope Renault-Nissan can hold up their end of the bargain.

Those companies have joined Mitsubishi, Nissan and Toyota in the scramble for a place in the new electric-car industry.

The answer might be found Thailand, where Nissan Motor Co. preparing to do what was once unthinkable: export small cars to Japan.

One Nissan official said he was afraid that the accused Renault managers might have shared crucial know-how with outsiders.

John Martin, Nissan's global supply-line chief, said the auto maker changed its supplier and made other adjustments.

Nissan has been a real beneficiary lately thanks to its small cars and a distribution network that reaches further inland than its rivals.

I tell him this interview slot usually goes to the CEOs of big companies like Nissan - whereas Craigslist is worth . . . how much?

Carlos Ghosn vowed to make Nissan -- which had been losing money for years -- into a profitable, globally competitive company again.

Nissan happens to be one among the top 3 Asian companies that have been able to manufacture highest number of cars.

He said as much last month, at a ceremony to mark the construction of Nissan's new American headquarters outside Nashville, Tennessee.

Nissan is one of the big manufacturers to commit to the idea with its Leaf design one of the first to go into mass production.

Nissan executives maintain the Nissan China unit's planned expansion is being made to help meet real demand, and analysts seem to agree.

Nissan is going for an unpretentious domestic image for the new line: Qi Chen's logo (pictured) looks like the five stars on China's flag.

A Nissan spokesman in Beijing said the company was still trying to confirm the details of China's incentive program.

"Nissan was not facing up to its problems, " he says, which meant critical decisions were being put off.

Nissan can tap suppliers to Renault, a French carmaker with which it shares parts, equity and a chief executive.

In the mean time, Nissan is hoping that its new design will be bold enough to stand out in the upcoming crowd of electric vehicles.

As the all-electric Nissan LEAF is the new car, the way you discover it had to be new, too.

This difference in shipments and retail sales at Nissan should have been 'rather typical' among auto makers, he said.

Nissan spokeswoman and a Suzuki spokesman declined to comment on whether the two companies were in talks to expand their OEM arrangements.

In the performance-per-dollar race, the Chevrolet Corvette is still one of the leaders, despite encroachment by Nissan's GT-R and others.

Renault and Nissan would provide technical support to Bajaj while it was designing and producing the car , he said .

These wings are much easier to use than they are to pronounce, since the company used the original mounting points that Nissan used.

Ghosn beat his own schedule for making Nissan profitable, and, following a series of three-year plans, made into a serious contender again.

Mr Ghosn's decision to position Nissan as a frontrunner in electric cars has landed the company much-needed government financing, too.

The commercial flow of these transactions will be managed by the Nissan Asia Pacific regional office in Singapore.

Bryant's familiarity working with robots at a Nissan automotive plant gave him the confidence on this project.

(Nissan's plant in Iwaki was an exception. ) But it ravaged the suppliers of critical parts and raw materials in north-eastern Japan.

Founded in 1932, Nissan has been through critical financial issues but now Nissan seems to be doing quite well.

In extreme cases, the engine will stall and will not be able to start, said Nissan spokesman Mitsuru Yonekawa.

Infiniti, Nissan's luxury brand, will introduce its new G37 sports car as well as a concept vehicle known as the EX.

P. S One more thing: "Nissan Power 88" sounds like the name of an energy drink.

At least 50 fires have been reported elsewhere, including at factories belonging to Nissan and Sumitomo Metal.

The French government is looking into a possible Chinese role in spying on carmaker Renault SA's and Nissan's electric vehicle program.

It reached a tentative agreement in which Nissan would have made a small car for Chrysler and Chrysler would have built a pickup for Nissan.

Earlier this year Mr Ghosn brought Daimler, a German maker of trucks and luxury cars, into a three-way alliance with Renault and Nissan.

Nissan plans suspend operations at all of six of its Japanese factories until its supply chain can be assured.

Its Japanese rivals Suzuki and Nissan have bypassed China as an export base in favour of India, where factory workers earn half as much.

Powered by the all-new Nissan MR18DE engine, the flexible and spacious model is based on the concept of a luxurious, yet practical vehicle.

Whenever a vehicle has so much hype around it as the new Nissan GT-R, people always get skeptical about its capabilities.

Nissan will then take the new electric vehicle across the United States on a coast-to-coast test run.

At its best, Nissan claims, the Leaf will have "up to" a 100-mile range before needing a fueling charge.

Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mazda said separately Thursday that abnormal inflation of passenger-side airbags was the reason for the recall.

That means Nissan needs to have more of its factories and administrative costs outside Japan, in the US or dollar-linked economies.

McNabb had been hired away from Nissan, where he had worked for more than 20 years - with a brief stint at Mercedes-Benz in the interim.

Nissan said last week that it would reopen the Iwaki plant next Monday, but initially at only half of its previous output.

The dispute is over Nissan's guerilla marketing tactics used during, and in the run-up to, the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

You should do a bit more research mate, even first generation production electric cars like the Nissan Leaf can do 100 miles per charge.

But Nissan's problems haven't all been technical. Marketing has been a longtime weakness.

People familiar with the planned Nissan agreement said the joint effort could be extended to more cities, such as Beijing.

Nissan's strategy is one example of a slow but steady recovery in TV ad spending, which has been hammered by the dot-com bust and recession.

"It's beenreally amazing to get this amount of personal attention from a huge car companylike Nissan, " he said.

The Nissan Leaf, an electric-drive all-battery-powered vehicle, will go up to 100 miles before needing overnight recharging.

Nissan's car factory in Sunderland, for instance, is one of its finest anywhere.

They then sell some of the cars profitably as 'certified' vehicles, Nissan says, offering limited warranties and roadside assistance.

So for now, at least, the Leaf, which Nissan claims can travel 100 mileson a single battery charge, has the stage pretty much to itself.

In its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31, Nissan's China sales rose 48% from a year earlier.

It was its lowest monthly output volume since at least 1971, a Nissan spokesman said.

In the US, Nissan recently became the first non-US carmaker to qualify for a Department of Energy grant for clean-car technology.

GM's losses have since far exceeded that sum, whereas Nissan has notched up the best profit margins in the industry.

Indeed, one of Mr Ghosn's priorities was to bring issues into the open to acknowledge Nissan's problems.

Also, Nissan Motor Co. and Toyota have had mixed results in entering the pickup and large-SUV categories.

Nissan hopes to return to normal in the early autumn; Toyota and Honda a bit later.

But Nissan's CEO Carlos Ghosn said this week he did not see any reason to change the way inventory is held at Chinese plants.

E. Concept featured technologies that Renault and its partner Nissan will install in their upcoming electric vehicles.

Nissan estimates highway mileage to be nearly 30 mpg, par for the class, but still decent for a box.

Toyota and Nissan make cars there, and Honda motorcycles, with much of the output going to China and elsewhere in Asia.

Nissan, which is allied with Renault, did not disclose a cost for the recall.

That appears to be the thinking behind Nissan's decision to launch a separate car brand in China with its local partner Dongfeng Motor.

At some point just about every kind of car is the unwilling recipient of Lambo doors, and the Nissan GT-R is no exception.

Over the years Todt has also worked for BMW, FIAT, Ford, Maserati, Matra, Mercedes, Nissan, Renault, Toyota, and most notably Ferrari.

But one of them Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault and Nissan, when asked about hybrids said something very fascinating.

To satisfy the needs of the variety of the production, Dongfeng-Nissan introduces the Nissan s production management system, CATS system.

How Nissan and your partner Renault are going to move 1. 5 million EVs by 2016, as you promise in the plan, will be something to see.

For the new studio, Mr. Nakamura said Nissan considered other cities besides Beijing, including Shanghai, Dalian, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

In addition, the Nissan Leaf, an electric car, added to its sales lead over the Chevrolet Volt, G. M. 's plug-in hybrid.

China was also a factor behind the Leaf, the battery-powered car that Nissan is to begin selling this year.

But no one is taking Hyundai lightly anymore, especially those who recall how Toyota (TM), Honda (HMC) and Nissan were underestimated.

A spokesman for Nissan said a shipment of 600 brand-new all-electric Leafs had set sail for the U. S. prior to the earthquake.

Electronics makers Hitachi and NEC Corp. , and carmaker Nissan all ended the year with a loss.

Nissan led the way in aggressively moving production out of Japan and using more foreign-made parts at domestic plants.

The car itself will keep Nissan connected to its customers long after theydrive it off the lot.

The peak of the nissan car trainer told reporters, adult child in her sitting in the driver who doesn't safe.

The announcement also marks the start of Nissan's coast-to-coast tour with its Cube EV prototype.

Chevrolet and Nissan are warranting the batteries in the Volt and Leaf, respectively, for eight years and up to 100, 000 miles of use.

Mr Kerkorian and a number of analysts see more opportunities in an alliance with Nissan and Renault. This is partly because of its size.

Nissan hopes, as Scion also once hoped, that it will become a centerpiece to the lifestyle of Gen-Yers, but only time will tell.

Nissan is expected to provide free electric vehicles to Wuhan and to help develop a network of vehicle-charging stations, the people said.

But that was the limit for Carlos Ghosn, under pressure as boss of the Renault-Nissan alliance.

Renault-Nissan will sell the ULCCs proposed by India's Bajaj, but will not be involved in their manufacture.

Now the chief executive of both Nissan and Renault is presiding over a synchronised automotive bust.

The tallies represent each time a Nissan car, presumably the 350Z based on the ad shown here, beat out one of its rivals at the Nurburgring.

The Sunderland factory of Nissan, a Japanese carmaker, is the most efficient in Europe and exports 80% of its output.

Pure electric vehicles like Nissan's Leaf can be driven for 150km or so before they need to be recharged for six to eight hours.

Nissan, Honda and Toyota, which arrived when the British motor industry was dying in the 1980s, revived the business.

In carmaking, for instance, Japan has Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Daihatsu, Mazda and Subaru. South Korea mainly has Hyundai.

Paul Hawson, a spokesman for Nissan, joins me for a test drive outside the San Francisco Giants ballpark.

That would substantially reduce the cost of the 24 kwh battery used by the Nissan Leaf.

General motors, Toyota, Nissan and Ford are considered to be the four largest auto manufactures in the world.

A group of 10 of us borrowed 3 canoes (had to strap one on top of a little Nissan! ) and headed to the river.

A group of 10 of us borrowed 3 canoes (had to strap one on top of a little Nissan! ) and headed to the river.

To go farther, Nissan has put its faith in a network of rapid-charging stations it is developing with partners.

Both Nissan and Honda have plants that have been damaged or shut down by the quake.

I finally got rid of that old Nissan that got me through college.

A model shows off Nissan's Esflow pure EV sports car concept at the company's Design Center.

After putting down his $99 deposit, Mr. Muir met for an hour in his homewith a technician from Nissan's supplier of charging stations.

Yokohama-based Nissan will show its Leaf electric car, to be sold starting next fiscal year.

As the classic Nissan SUV models, Trail since 2008 into the domestic SUV market in the city set on a technical benchmark.

Nissan said it will introduce its Leaf electric vehicle in the U. S. , Europe and Japan this autumn.

Though Honda and Nissan also use proprietary data recorders, Toyota's closely guarded system is raising concerns among safety experts.

Though Honda and Nissan also use proprietary data recorders, Toyota's closely guarded system is raising concerns among safety experts.

Global automakers, including BMW and Nissan Motor, are also working with local governments to roll out their E-Mini and Leaf respectively.

Nissan Motor Co. is to release its earnings next Thursday a day before Toyota announces its results.

Nissan was pumped when its modified van won a competition to be named New York City's official taxi beginning in 2013.

This year Nissan is unleashing its compact star on the Chinese market - the March (also known as the Micra).

Moreover, the facilities, built by a major Chinese state power grid, are off-limits to other entrants like Nissan's Leaf.

TADANO automobile hoists the original import, six Ling five boom, Nissan chassis, computer, Crane Performance intact!

Nissan intends to use telemetry to send information to a global data centre from every LEAF sold.

No wonder many car manufacturers like Nissan and Honda are replacing their vehicles' automatic transmission with the CVT.

"It's the first step in what is sure to be an exciting journey, " said Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn when the Leaf was previewed this August.

"It's the first step in what is sure to be an exciting journey, " said Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn when the Leaf was previewed this August.

Japanese carmakers Nissan and Suzuki are considering joint production in Russia and Brazil to expand their ties in emerging markets.

The plan is to use Nissan's manufacturing facilities to start churning out vehicles for Saturn once GM cuts its ties.

Nissan plans to expand global production of the Leaf to as many as 500, 000 vehicles a year by 2012.

Private cars for the Japanese Nissan Teana commercial vehicle. black. new. space. comfortable ride!

"My Nissan was built in Smyrna, Tennessee, " writes Ice-Flyer. "I don't feel guilty at all. "

Engine central electronic control system is widely used in all types of Nissan cars.

They don't make old-school Volkswagen buses anymore. And all the muddy sticks in the world aren't going to fix your Nissan Leaf.

China's auto industry may soon emerge as a significant export base for foreign car makers such GM and Nissan.

Virtually every Nissan performance car gets NISMO enhancement at some point in its lifetime.

Competition is particularly fierce in this "mid-range" market, where Toyota's Camry, Nissan's Altima and Honda's Accord have long dominated.

General Motors Co. and Nissan are spending billions of dollars to market electric cars they hope will become mainstream vehicles.

Nissan was advancing rapidly before the quake but Mr Ghosn now admits that it may lose market share this year.

Nissan also continues to improve internal-combustion engines to use in hybrids and diesel-engine vehicles, Mr. Ghosn said.

Still, in per-car terms, Honda and Nissan are spending far less than their U. S. rivals.

Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Nissan, told the Financial Times last week that China had replaced the US as its most profitable market.

Carmakers Renault, Nissan and Daimler said Wednesday they would swap stock and jointly develop cars, Reuters reported.

In carmaking, for instance, Japan has Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Daihatsu, Mazda and Subaru.

The Department has also signed conditional commitments with Nissan North America Inc. and Fisker Automotive.

Dongfeng Nissan passenger vehicle Company was established on June 16th, 2003 with its location in Huadu of Guangzhou.

If that was the case, there would be no today [for Nissan]. '

Just after Christmas, workers from General Motors took to the streets, following a trail blazed by those from Nissan and Renault.

The car is the Nissan GT-R, a vehicle whose lines and shape were dictated almost exclusively by the drive for optimal aerodynamics.

That's why Toyota, Nissan, Daimler and GM are all developing electric cars that run on next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

The Leaf will receive a 'best' designation for fuel economy and environmental impact by the EPA, Nissan said.

Nismo, the racing and tuning branch of Nissan, will be launching an upgraded powerplant and transmission management software.

Nissan Motor Co appeared to benefit from Toyota's woes as its sales rose 16 percent. GM's rose 14 percent.

"We are creating a technological powerhouse that would benefit all partners, " Renault and Nissan's chief executive Carlos Ghosn said.

The plant in Zhongshan makes airbags and other parts for Honda as well as for Nissan, which has a major vehicle-production plant nearby.

Waiting lists for the new electric cars from Nissan and General Motors (GM) exceeded production quotas.

Nissan recently discontinued a Japanese version and started importing the cheaper Thai model instead.

The strike hit companies including Toyota, Ford, Volkswagen, General Motors, Nissan, BMW and Daimler.

He piled it all into the back of his 1991 Nissan Pathfinder.

Then take the next step and reserve your very own Nissan Leaf.

Mr. Shahzad used a pre-paid cellphone to receive a series of calls from Pakistan following his purchase of the Nissan, the complaint said.

Nissan's Nakamura said he is 'cautious' about 2012.

Nissan Automotive has its European design headquarters in Paddington, central London.

If you really are shooting for the moon, "Nissan's plan for global domination" might be more appropriate.

Moreover Nissan is currently grappling with the aftermath of Japan's devastating earthquake.

That's tough love for Nissan, which prides itself on "innovation without limits, " but it's taken hits before.

Only Carlos Ghosn, he of the two-continent Renault-Nissan alliance, has the wattage and the willpower for global star power.

To help us out, Nissan's chief designer Shiro Nakamura has come out and provided some clues about the new EV's styling.

Last week, Renault and Nissan announced ambitious plans to develop mass-marketed electric vehicles.

And admitting to a car from the Far East (Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai) was, of course, social suicide.

Russia is already a bigger market than any in Europe for some companies, like Toyota and Nissan.

Honda's September sales rose 3 percent from a year earlier to 60, 913 units and Nissan Motor Co.

Its big three carmakers - Toyota, Honda and Nissan - reported staggering falls in production.

Every time the yen strengthens by one yen, for instance, Nissan loses 11 billion yen ($116 million) in operating profit.

Nissan said it would restart five plants today, but only to make parts rather than assemble cars.

Nissan Motor Co. aims to start selling an electric car in the United States and Japan in 2010 and the rest of the world in 2012.

Other big producers, like Japanese rival Nissan Motor Co. , also reported strong first-quarter sales.

Under the agreement, Nissan will help SGE&G with " EV acquisition" and the promotion of an EV charging infrastructure.

That same test was the basis of Nissan's prior 100-mile range estimate for the Leaf.

Nissan escaped, and Hyundai, headquartered in South Korea, largely was unaffected.

Nissan has declined to confirm or deny any deeper talks with Chrysler, while Renault has denied any involvement.

Toyota, Honda and Nissan all recently blamed their sharply lower earnings in the latest quarter in part on the strong yen.

Batteries are getting lighter and cheaper; Renault-Nissan plans to lease them to customers to reduce upfront car prices.

Renault's revival of Nissan and the recovery under foreign ownership of troubled Japanese and Korean banks are cases in point.

Nissan Motor Co. 's China joint venture today announced a roughly $730 million plan to expand capacity at its complex in Guangdong province.

He stressed that Renault and Nissan don't plan to convert their entire fleets to all-electric power.

A Nissan engineer told AFP that the 'emotional aspect of a car has become increasingly important'.

What information will Dongfeng Nissan transfer to the industry by the show?

Nissan North America: Sales of its Infiniti luxury division, which gets most vehicles from Japan, tumbled 13. 5% in October.

Using the same calculus, the all-electric Nissan Leaf, also set to be introduced in late 2010, does infinite miles per gallon.

The joint venture, Dongfeng Motor Co. , in turns operates two joint ventures with Nissan that produce vehicles under the Nissan brand name.

Nissan said five plants were shut down immediately after the quake struck, with small fires extinguished at two of them.

Major auto makers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. said they will halt production at their domestic plants from Monday.

Long seen as the car industry's most impressive wizard, his image has been harmed by problems at both Renault and Nissan.

Their executive team told Nissan to remove the logo, or face legal action for copyright infringement.

GM and Nissan are power players in the automotive world, both with market caps around fifty billions dollars.

Carlos Ghosn, a French-Brazilian, has done something similar at Nissan, a Japanese carmaker.

Nevertheless, this year Nissan will start to sell a hybrid developed in conjunction with Toyota.

NISMO has announced a new high-performance "Sports Resetting" program for the Nissan GT-R and GT-R Spec-V.

General Motors, Volkswagon, Toyota and Nissan are busy establishing their manufaturing bases in the vast and low-cost Chinese market.

Otherwise, the Nissan will ring bells or issue a voice message, and also suggest the driver pull over and rest.

A few big firms, such as Sony and Nissan, have hired outside bosses, though usually under duress: both faced severe competition from abroad.

Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 will be like ditching your old Toyota Camry for a sexy, new Nissan GT-R.

Nissan has reportedly set a goal of beating the mighty ZR1, so check back for an updated lap time tomorrow.

This fact will change in the future as Nissan develops specific platforms for electric vehicles and lets its designers work from scratch.

The IHQ award was presented by Lim to both Hashimoto and Keiji Shimada, president of Nissan Asia Pacific, at the Fullerton Hotel.

To compare, Nissan's new electric car, the Leaf, comes with a 24 kilowatt-hour battery.

The alliance, Mr Ghosn argues, has also made Nissan more daring and Renault more cosmopolitan.

'We want drivers to feel that they are healthier staying in the car instead of on the outside, ' a Nissan engineer said.

There it retails at around $10, 000 and Nissan will have to compete with the Tata Nano - which sells for less than $4, 000.

"That's the biggest point of focus -- the supplier body, " said Carlos Ghosn, head of Nissan Motor Co.

Further cost has been stripped out by sharing as many components as possible with existing Renault-Nissan models.

And you don't have to go hybrid: Ms. Caldwell notes the small Nissan Versa gets 29 miles to the gallon and only costs $16, 000.

In similar tests on Nissan's Leaf, the vehicle's battery survived the crash undamaged, according to two people familiar with the testing.

Nissan Motor, for example, manufactures a higher proportion of cars inside the U. S. than Toyota Motor, so it feels less of a pinch.

Nissan had already decided to boost its annual capacity in China to one million vehicles from 670, 000 by the fiscal year ending March 2013.

Asahi Glass (India), the company's two factories Nissan 500 tons and 700 tons.

Tavares concluded that Nissan should focus a lot more on emerging markets to boost stagnating world-wide sales.

On that basis, the fact that Nissan is trading below book value looks harsh.

Today, Nissan said their new car is going to get 367 miles a gallon.

Including Toyota, Mazda, Honda and Nissan and other manufacturers have produced cars for sale worldwide.

Renault, which is already in an 11-year-old cross-shareholding alliance with Japan's Nissan, has long spoken of adding a third partner.

No accidents have been reported that are suspected of being related to the defect, according to Yokohama-based Nissan.

Car phone 13964549600 Yantai Qi Yuan car rental company's existing Buick series, Nissan series, Kia series, Toyota series.

with the Mazda and Nissan co-operation, Ford reduced costs and improved quality.

Toyota, number two in the market, fell by 15%; Hyundai, Nissan and especially Honda (down by 8%) did a little better.

In a sense, this 370Z is supposed to be Nissan's Mustang.

After he was released, he obtained the license plate "X HACKER" for his Nissan but he was still very much in the computer break-in business.

But Nissan's revival isn't only a story of restructuring.

Bellwether companies from NEC to Nissan have slashed jobs and investment.

Nissan, meanwhile, is testing a breathalyser-like device into which the driver must blow before starting the car.

The Nissan Versa small car, buoyed by a new design, also set an October record.

Japan's Nissan Motor Co. is expected to announce a new capacity-expansion plan next week.

Nissan and Suzuki companies in India to launch joint production of a car.

This paper introduces the struture and the working principle of the safety air bag system on NISSAN CEFIRO car.

A technological flagship for the high-end line from Nissan, the M45 takes the place once occupied by Infiniti's former Q-ship, the Q45.

The EPA declined to elaborate on Nissan's rating, other than to verify it.

Lower reserves for cars on lease and loan losses contributed $810 million in operating profit at Toyota, and $817 million at Nissan.

Will there or won't there be an Infiniti- badged , Nissan GT-R based sedan?

But the Nissan brand, mainly sourced from North America and less affected by the Japan tragedy, was up 22. 1% and set an October record.

Production at a Nissan Motor plant in China, Dongfeng Nissan, dwindled dramatically after Japan's earthquake and tsunami, Xinhua reported.

The photos can be downloaded from the Nissan Web site.

The Nissan Leaf or Renault Fluence are powered only by a battery.

Power comes from Nissan's ubiquitous 1. 8-liter inline four-cylinder engine as seen in its platform partner, the Nissan Versa.

NISSAN GT- R's unique characteristics are instilled not just in the vehicle 's design, but also through a specialized production process.

Nissan will build up to 150, 000 Leaf electric cars per year at its plant in Smyrna by 2012.

The float glass production line of the designed capacity of 460 tons for Nissan.

"Nissan's advantage is monozukuri, " Reuter said, a Japanese word that means manufacturing.

Dongfeng Motor Co. 's plug-in Shuaike is produced in a joint venture with Nissan Motor Co.

Still, Nissan said this week it would build a big distribution hub near Bangkok to export locally made car parts.

Permanent workers, even at big companies such as Nissan and Panasonic that have announced deep job losses, are on relatively surer ground.

Mitsubishi Motors aims to manufacture low-priced vehicles based on minicars jointly developed with Nissan Motor Co.

For fiscal year 2009, Nissan sees tough times with the strategy a tight one focused on minimizing losses.

Nissan is using this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed to introduce their new limited edition 370Z Yellow coupe.

Palmer said that Nissan plans to focus on all-electric zero-emission vehicles instead.

Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of the Nissan-Renault group, has already warned customers to expect increases of 2 to 3 per cent.