Nissan Motors

Nissan also owns Nissan Marine, a joint venture with Marubeni Corporation that produces motors for boats and other maritime equipment. Driving is the act of controlling a vehicle. 1994), which was sold to DDI and Japan Telecom (both now merged into KDDI Corporation) in 1999. As a proper noun, drive is Chicago slang term for Lake Shore Drive, and the name for:. Nissan has also had a number of ventures outside the automotive industry, most notably the Tu-Ka mobile phone service (est. Drive is also a short for driveway. Nissan does not develop these cars. Drive has several meanings in various fields:.

Nissan also sells a small range of keicars, mainly as a joint venture with other Japanese manufacturers like Suzuki or Mitsubishi. DriveLetterManipulator How to: Drive Letter Manipulation. Nissan sells its luxury models in North America under the Infiniti brand. WDRV The Drive — a Chicago classic rock station (97.1 FM). In 1985, Nissan created a tuning division, NISMO, for competition and performance development of such cars. and Incubus. However, used imports of the sportier GTS and GT-R coupes have become popular in other right-hand-drive countries like Australia. Drive (song) — the name of songs by The Cars, R.E.M.

Unfortunately, Nissan has been reluctant to sell most Skylines outside of Japan. Drive (movie) — a 1997 film. It also produced several memorable sports cars, including the Z-car, an affordable sports car originally introduced in 1969; and the Skyline GT-R, a powerful all-wheel-drive sports coupe. Drive (band) — power noise/techno side-project of Icon of Coil's Andy LaPlegua. There was a major strike in 1953. Drive (album) — the debut solo album by New Zealand artist Bic Runga. Nissan has produced an extensive range of mainstream cars and trucks, initially for domestic consumption but exported around the world since the 1950s. A drive(charity) can be the act of a charity collecting items other than money.

Nissan North America will relocate its headquarters from Gardena, California to Franklin, Tennessee in 2008. In radio industry, drive is a time shift in the late afternoon. The company's head office is now in Tokyo but will move back to Yokohama in 2010. In psychology, drive is an alternate name for motivation. Nissan also produces cars at its factory near Pretoria, South Africa. In basketball, driving is getting near the rim with the ball, often for an easier shot. However, financial difficulties in Australia in the late 1980s caused Nissan to cease production there. In golf, drive is a very long golf shot.

A plant in Sunderland, UK was added in the mid-1980s as the subsidiary Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. In computing, drive is a device for mass storage. An engine plant in Decherd, Tennessee followed, and most recently a second assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi. This facility at first built only trucks, but has since been expanded to produce several car lines. The firm established assembly operations in the United States in the early 1980s, with a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee.

In the wake of the fuel crisis, Nissan became one of the world's largest exporters of automobiles and set up new factories in Mexico and Australia. Nissan would introduce a new luxury brand for the US market in the late 1980s called Infiniti. The Prince name was eventually abandoned, with successive Skylines and Glorias bearing the Nissan name - however, "Prince" is still used in names of certain Nissan dealers in Japan. In 1966, Nissan merged with the Prince Motor Company, bringing into its range more upmarket cars, including the Skyline and Gloria.

In the 1970s Nissan licensed Mercedes engines, the L series RWD straight 4s and 6s, such as powered the 240Z. Even after the Nissan introduced its own models in the 1960s, its engines continued to be derived from Austin's A- and B-family designs. These designs were apparently covered by a 1952-1960 license agreement between the companies. The company soon began producing a variety of Austin-derived models like the original Austin A50-based Datsun 1000.

Nissan began building Austin 7s in 1930, though the legitimacy of their license is debated. Nissan chose Austin of the United Kingdom, which later became the British Motor Corporation. Like Hino and Isuzu, but unlike Toyota, Nissan partnered with a European company to gain access to automobile and engine designs. (日産重工業).

For two years (1947 to 1948) the company was briefly called Nissan Heavy Industries Corp. (日産自動車, Nissan Jidosha Kaisha) on June 1, 1934, and was founded by Yoshisuke Aikawa. The company became Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Ltd.") who was popularly known as "Ni-San.".

("Japan Industry Co. Ltd. In 1934, Jidosha-Seizo merged with a fellow Japanese automanufacturer named Nihon Sangyo Co. Ltd.") and moved to Yokohama.

(自動車製造株式会社, "Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd. In 1933, the company name was Nipponized to Jidosha-Seizo Co. However, the last syllable was changed to "sun", because "son" also means "loss" (損) in Japanese.

In 1931, the first DATSON—meaning "Son of DAT"—was produced. (ダット自動車製造株式会社, Dat Jidosha Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha) in Osaka until 1932. Ltd. (実用自動車製造株式会社, Jitsuyō Jidōsha Seikoku Kabushiki Gaisha) (established 1919) as DAT Automobile Manufacturing Co.

The next year, the Tokyo-based company merged with the Osaka-based Jitsuyo Jidosha Co., Ltd. in 1918, and again, in 1925, to DAT Motorcar Co. The Works was renamed to Kwaishinsha Motorcar Co. The new car's name being the acronym of the company's partners' surnames:.

In 1914, the Kwaishinsha Motorcar Works (快進自動車工場, Kaishin Jidōsha Kōjō), established three years earlier, in Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo, built the first DAT. . Nissan is also noted for being one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobile engines, with its VG and VQ V6 engines appearing on "Ward's 10 Best Engines" for 12 straight years - every year since the award's inception. His achievements in revitalizing the Japanese company have been noted by Emperor Akihito, who awarded him the Japan Medal with Blue Ribbon in 2004.

Ghosn has since been idolized as a national hero in Japan as a symbol of the strength of the currently ailing Japanese economy, with Ghosn and the Nissan revival story prominently featured in Japanese manga and popular culture. In 2001, the company initiated Nissan 180, capitalizing on the success of the NRP. Under Ghosn's "Nissan Revival Plan" (NRP), Nissan has rebounded in what many leading economists consider to be one of the most spectacular corporate turnarounds in history, catapulting Nissan to record profits and a dramatic revitalization of both its Nissan and Infiniti model line-ups. Due to financial problems throughout the 1990s, the French manufacturer Renault bought a controlling share in the company and installed Carlos Ghosn as president, the first non-Japanese person to run a Japanese car company (Mazda was run by an American, Mark Fields and by Briton Lewis Booth and Mitsubishi was run by a German, Rolf Eckrodt).

Nissan used to be Japan's second largest car company after Toyota, but it has dropped to third in size after Honda. The company marketed vehicles under the Nissan and Datsun brand names until 1983, when the Datsun brand name was dropped. Nissan plans to move their headquarters to Yokohama, Kanagawa by 2010; the headquarters will start construction in 2007. The company's main offices are located in the Ginza area of Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (TYO: 7201 , NASDAQ: NSANY), which formerly marketed vehicles under the Datsun brand name, is a Japanese automobile manufacturer. Meitaro Takeuchi (竹内 明太郎 Takeuchi Meitarō). Rokuro Aoyama (青山 禄朗 Aoyama Rokurō). Kenjiro Den (田 健次郎 Den Kenjirō).