Archive | July, 2012

Our day with Nissan’s budding racing drivers

WHO is your favourite motorsport driver and why? It might not be too tricky a question for many of us – but in this case, there’s quite a bit of pressure on the young man standing in front of us to supply an interesting answer. The reason? Well, Daniel Glover is among the candidates hoping [...]

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LEAF is a transport of delight!

WESTOVER Nissan, Bournemouth, was delighted to be asked to help spring a surprise on the groom at the wedding of Helen Bray and Clyde Israel. The 100 per cent Electric LEAF carried the bride and her father to St Nicholas Church at Worth Matravers and then a completely surprised groom and his new bride were [...]

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‘Respectable performance’ on profits

NISSAN Motor Co. Ltd. has announced an operating profit of £986m for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. Compared with the first quarter of 2011, operating profit declined 20 per cent due to the worsening foreign exchange impact of an abnormally strong yen, along with higher one-time selling costs, particularly in North America, linked [...]

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Lots of innovation and excitement!

WE’RE paying a final visit to 2012′s Goodwood Festival of Speed today. Although the event took place a couple of weeks ago now, dealers might still be feeling the benefits of Nissan’s presence at the event. That’s because the team at Goodwood worked hard to spread the message of innovation and excitement that are the [...]

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Nissan’s European sales up five per cent

AT THE halfway point of the 2012 calendar year, Nissan is bucking the trend of depressed demand in the European car market by posting a five per cent rise in sales over 2011. Overall customer demand in Europe for the January-June period is around 4.5 per cent or 428,000 units down on 2011, caused in [...]

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Six of the best hoping to be the next Jann

SIX British and Irish PlayStation racers are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jann Mardenborough, the first British winner of Nissan’s GT Academy. The six emerged triumphant at the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy National Final, staged at the world-famous Silverstone Circuit. They have kept alive their dreams of being trained to become a real-life [...]

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‘Very reliable’ performance praised

RELIABILITY is of course a key factor customers take into account when planning a car purchase. And with that in mind, here’s some news dealers can use to their advantage. The renowned ADAC breakdown organisation in Germany has praised Nissan for the extremely low level of breakdowns the company’s cars experience. The organisation’s 2011 statistics, [...]

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‘I had a great experience at Goodwood’

WORKING at Head Office on the graduate scheme, Natalie Row spends most of her time at her desk, but recently she had the opportunity to work on the Nissan stand (pictured) at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which was hard work but very rewarding. Here she shares her experiences… ‘A lot of very happy customers [...]

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