Nissan’s problem is rather more serious than the other legacy Japanese Automakers. If Toyota is the giant awakening from its slumber, Nissan is the patient being wheeled rapidly towards the emergency department. The company has suffered years of financial and…
From the moment it was launched it was dubbed the ‘Conti Killer’. With bells and whistles that many a car manufacturer find hard to conjure up and price tag that defies logic, the Proton S70 Turbo has and continue to…
Honda has always been the slightly eccentric member of the Japanese family. Toyota built cars for everybody. Honda built cars for people who secretly wanted to be engineers. The company gave us screaming VTEC engines, Type Rs, the S2000 and…
If there is one Japanese manufacturer that can afford to take the Chinese challenge seriously, it is Toyota. But Toyota’s greatest strength may also have been its greatest weakness. It was very, very good at doing what it already did….
For decades, Japanese car manufacturers seemed almost untouchable. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda and Subaru had perfected the formula. Build reliable cars, make them economical, engineer them properly, sell them everywhere and, above all, don’t do anything too stupid. Then China…
There is a rather interesting experiment taking place in America. Remove the government subsidy from electric cars and see what happens. According to reports in Automotive News, U.S. EV sales have plunged by around 31% following the end of the…