Nissan Motors

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Nissan also sells a small range of keicars, mainly as a joint venture with other Japanese manufacturers like Suzuki or Mitsubishi. Golden Air in IATA airline designators. Nissan sells its luxury models in North America under the Infiniti brand. Sega Dreamcast, Sega video game console. In 1985, Nissan created a tuning division, NISMO, for competition and performance development of such cars. Douglas Aircraft commercial series. However, used imports of the sportier GTS and GT-R coupes have become popular in other right-hand-drive countries like Australia. Dot-com, an Internet related term.

Unfortunately, Nissan has been reluctant to sell most Skylines outside of Japan. Domain controller, a role for a server on a Windows network. 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. Doctor of Chiropractic, a health care profession. There was a major strike in 1953. Distrito Capital (Bogotá, D.C.). Nissan has produced an extensive range of mainstream cars and trucks, initially for domestic consumption but exported around the world since the 1950s. District of Columbia, the capital of the United States.

Nissan North America will relocate its headquarters from Gardena, California to Franklin, Tennessee in 2008. District court. The company's head office is now in Tokyo but will move back to Yokohama in 2010. Distributed computing. Nissan also produces cars at its factory near Pretoria, South Africa. Direct current, used in electricity. However, financial difficulties in Australia in the late 1980s caused Nissan to cease production there. Directly compressible material, used as a tabletting aid.

A plant in Sunderland, UK was added in the mid-1980s as the subsidiary Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. Direct connect file-sharing application. An engine plant in Decherd, Tennessee followed, and most recently a second assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi. Difficulty Class, a basic concept of the d20 System of role-playing game mechanics. This facility at first built only trucks, but has since been expanded to produce several car lines. Dielectric constant, an electrical term. The firm established assembly operations in the United States in the early 1980s, with a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. Detective Constable, a rank of Constable in the Criminal Investigation Department of British Police and the Special Branch of British and Indian Police.

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. Dental corps. Nissan would introduce a new luxury brand for the US market in the late 1980s called Infiniti. Dick Chompers, an organized crime gang in Brooklyn, New York City. 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. Democrazia Cristiana, a political party in Italy. In 1966, Nissan merged with the Prince Motor Company, bringing into its range more upmarket cars, including the Skyline and Gloria. DC Shoes, a skateboarding apparel manafacturer.

In the 1970s Nissan licensed Mercedes engines, the L series RWD straight 4s and 6s, such as powered the 240Z. DC Comics, a comic book publisher whose name is derived from one of its flagship titles, Detective Comics. 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. Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. These designs were apparently covered by a 1952-1960 license agreement between the companies. Da capo, a musical term. The company soon began producing a variety of Austin-derived models like the original Austin A50-based Datsun 1000. Axiom of dependent choice in set theory (mathematics).

Nissan began building Austin 7s in 1930, though the legitimacy of their license is debated. Augustin Pyrame de Candolle in binomial nomenclature. 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).