NSANF News and Press, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. From 07/18/18

I stumbled upon a most peculiar statistical coincidence, of sorts: Almost every subcompact SUV of importance in the U.S. market today sells just about the same number of units, or if the car was launched more recently, is on a path to sell a similar number of units too. But before we analy...

While much hullabaloo surrounds Tesla, Inc. ( TSLA ), better stock offerings in the auto sector can be found in Japan - specifically: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ( HMC ) ( HNDAF ), Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. ( NSANF ) ( NSANY ), and Toyota Motor Corporation ( TM ) ( TOYOF ). All of these Japanese motor ...

I suppose that when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he may have considered that he was meeting certain obvious needs and addressing growing problems. In addition to the poor lighting provided by candles and kerosene lamps, fires were frequent. Poor lighting represented an encumbrance ...

June 2018, plus or minus a month, saw four all-new cars hit the market, all with base prices within approximately $3,000 of each other: Volkswagen Jetta - base $20,195 with auto Toyota Corolla hatchback - base $22,010 with auto Hyundai Veloster - base $20,385 with auto N...

For good reason, almost two decades ago, the Toyota (NYSE: TM ) Prius became almost synonymous with “hybrid” - and largely for good reason. Toyota got the powertrain technology down right: It was smooth, reliably fuel efficient, and just plain reliable. Witness the Prius taxica...

The review embargo for a milestone in the history of electric cars - the Jaguar (Tata Motors (TTM)) i-Pace - lifted Sunday evening New York time, June 3. The background to this moment in time is that a portion of the global motoring press had the opportunity over the recent weeks and days to d...

Last September 8, I predicted that both the Tesla Model 3 and the Nissan LEAF would sell approximately 100,000 cars in 2018, on a global basis: here. At the time, that proposition was laughed at, as being wildly unrealistic. After all, Tesla's guidance for the Model 3 was for 400,000 Model...

The facts are as clear as they are painful for the U.S. automotive industry: The average U.S. gasoline price is $2.92 per gallon as of this writing (May 19): https://gasprices.aaa.com/ -- and it’s been going up. A year prior, it was $2.34. That’s an increase of 25%. ...

The following slide deck was published by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. ADR in conjunction with their 2017 Q4 earnings Read more ...

There are only two car factories in North America with annual unit output of more than 600,000, and they are both fairly similar in size: Close to, or a little under, 650,000 units per year. They are: Nissan (NSANY) in Tennessee. Volkswagen (VLKAF) in Mexico. These two factories ...