It’s no GT-R, but Nissan reports that its X-Trail fuel-cell vehicle has done a few circles around the Nurburgring  with a best lap time of 11:58.  In comparison, the Nissan GT-R went around in 7:29. It’s not bad considering the thing’s not really meant to be raced around a track. Nissan is the first automaker [...]

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Japanese car fans, or anyone for that matter, probably knows of the grudge rivalry between Mitsubishi and Subaru fan-boys. With a new generation of Evo and WRX models out, that rivalry is only heightened with speculative claims from both sides. But which car is really the next king of rally? Leave it to Top Gear’s [...]

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Suzuki might be having problems selling it’s wares in North America for some unexplainable reason, but globally the brand’s Suzuki Swift has surpassed the one million mark in just four years of production. North Americans did experience the last generation Swift in the form of the Geo Metro, but it hardly impressed anyone. This new [...]

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We’ve been told over and over again that Nissan’s GT-R is fast, but now we have video proof of just how fast the GT-R can lap around Germany’s Nurburgring. Nissan first claimed the car featured in the video is an unmodified prototype, but later reports hinted that Nissan had infact performed slight tweaks to the [...]

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Nissan today announced that its GT-R supercar achieved a lap time at the infamous Nurburgring in Germany of seven minutes and 29 seconds. Recorded on April 16 and 17, the GT-R used was a base specification car and fitted with the standard Japanese market tires. Driven by GT-R chief test driver Tochio Suzuki, this latest [...]

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Them wacky people at Car and Driver have raised a few eyebrows with their latest car test. The latest test involved running a FX50 with a 5.0L V8 churing out 390-hp from 0-60 in 5 seconds. That’s right - five. After four, before six. Five seconds. They allege it’s a fraction of a second [...]

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Just a few days ago Ben Linney, the rich bloke from english land who emptied out his pockets and imported a GT-R, had his GT-R run for a small test day. What the dyno results showed was quite suprising: the official HP figures weren’t right.

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Reuters has guessed that modest Toyota has sold approximately 9.366 million units worldwide. And GM? GM has announced it sold 9,369,524 vehicles globally last year, making it the world’s best-selling automaker for the 77nd year in a row.
Toyota and GM’s sales figures are bound to cross paths as Toyota grows and GM restructures. Not all [...]

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