About Nissan

RyanThomas asked:



The third largest Japanese car manufacture recently announced that its Global Production Engineering Centre is fully operational. The said facility is located at Nissan’s Zama Operations Center in the Kanagawa Prefecture. The said facility will be the crucial link in Nissan’s production all over the world. The Global Production Engineering Centre (GPEC) will be focusing on the production methods used by the different Nissan assembly facilities scattered across the globe. Nissan aims to use the GPEC to develop new production technologies which will ensure that their assembly plants will be producing high quality Nissan vehicles.

Hidetoshi Imazu, Nissan’s Executive Vice President, has this to say with the opening of the Global Production Engineering Centre: “The new GPEC and Global Training Center (GTC) represent long-term investments for Nissan in terms of delivering high-quality products to our customers worldwide. Both facilities are critical to the continued evolution of the Nissan Production Way (NPW) as a proven global standard. As we cut down the development lead time to introduce more new products and build them across the world, it is important that Nissan maintains the high levels of quality that our customers expect.”

Among the tasks that the facility will perform is production trial. This step is important to find out how high the quality of the end product will be at Nissan’s assembly factories. The newly operational facility will also analyze vehicle production. All the tasks performed in all assembly plants will be analyzed by Nissan’s engineers at the GPEC. Production of automobiles as well as other components such as Nissan grille guards, body kits, and other components will also be the concern of the new facility. The production technology that Nissan aims to develop is expected to increase the efficiency and quality of current production techniques used by the company’s numerous assembly facilities.

The opening of the new facility is in connection wit Nissan’s effort to increase its offering in terms of their auto lineup. Last fiscal year saw the company post its first loss since Chief Executive Officer Carlos Ghosn took over. The dismal sales performance of the company is blamed on the scarcity of choice for car buyers. To turn the company around, Nissan announced that they will be offering new car models in the near future. The new engineering center will play a big role in ensuring that these new cars will be produced efficiently and will be of high quality. We can expect that Nissan will be coming up with high quality cars in the near future and this facility will have a big hand in making that a possibility.

Constance

cesar m asked:


The first time at the nissan dealership they told me that it was because the filter wasn’t the right one this happened about 3 month after the first month inspection, we are talking about a brand new car, the second time just happened yesterday about four month from the first incident. I heven’t taken the car to the nissan dealership.
Does any boddy has a clue to what might have been happening here?

Martha

jjjwrussell asked:


I’m in the market for a car purchase and I’ve got my sights set on the Nissan 300z. Unfortunately, most of the cars I’m looking at have 150,000 miles or more and, in the case of the one I’d probably buy, over 200,000. I figure that the car won’t last too much longer on an engine with that many miles, so how much would it cost to replace the engine? Does it have to be a 300 engine or can some other make and/or model engine be substituted? It’s a 1994, if that matters. Thanks.

Randall

goldarm8 asked:


What name brand will give better performence to a nissan 350z and how much would it cost? Thanks.

Christina

RyanThomas asked:



The Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.’s April sales dived 14.0 percent on a daily sales rate basis to 61,179 units compared with last year’s 77,102 units sold. The company’s sales decline points to fewer selling days in April 2007 as compared to 2006.

The Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) reported sales of 71,124 units in April and that is an 11.1 percent cut from the previous year. The NNA sales decreased 14.0 percent over last year. The Infiniti Division posted a sales gain of 12.0 percent with 9,945 units sold, as compared with last April’s 9,618 units. The all-new G Sedan contributed sales of 4,491 units, an increase of 71.9 percent over last April.

This April, Nissan bumpers failed to protect the company from sales crash. For the month of April, Nissan and Infiniti sales totaled 71,124 and that figure is an 11.1 percent decrease over last year’s April sales of 86,720 units. In North America, the NNA operations include automotive styling, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and marketing, distribution and manufacturing.

In the United States, Nissan auto sales dropped by 18 percent on unadjusted basis. North American Sales Chief Brad Bradshaw said Tuesday that the U.S. sales for the Nissan and Infiniti brands equaled 71,124 vehicles and that is down by 18 percent compared with the same period in 2006 on a volume basis.

The company’s sales fell eleven percent and the figures are adjusted for the fact there were two fewer selling days in April 2007 compared to the prior year. The Japanese automaker said a 20 percent decline at its mainstream Nissan brand or a 14 percent decline on an adjusted basis. The sixth largest automaker worldwide noted that the luxury Infiniti brand registered a four percent increase in volume, or a 12 percent increase when adjusted for selling days. Additionally, Nissan brand sold 61,179 vehicles, while Infiniti delivered 9,945.

In an interview, Bradshaw said it was a “difficult month” for Nissan. He said that the company expected some softness in the first half of the month, due to the Easter holiday and the end of tax season. “But the market didn’t come back” in the second half of April as Nissan expected, he added.

Slow truck sales continued to injure the Nissan brand, and now the company is dealing with a unforeseen decline in passenger car sales. “What has been just a truck weakness in the market appears to have crossed over into the car side of the business,” Bradshaw noted.

Nissan for the fiscal year 2006, ending March 31, 2007 filed its results with the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The results include net revenues of 10.4686 trillion yen, operating profit of 776.9 billion yen, ordinary profit of 761.1 billion yen, consolidated net income of 460.8 billion yen, and the operating profit margin came to 7.4 percent.

“2006 did not boost our results towards achieving the objectives of Nissan Value-Up,” said the Nissan President and CEO, Carlos Ghosn. “However, we believe that the commitments are within the potential of the company and we remain focused to deliver them completely. Accordingly, we have decided to extend the period for delivering all the Nissan Value-Up commitments by one year.”

Ghosn noted that tangible progress had been made on the four key breakthroughs in Nissan Value-Up. The Infiniti luxury brand continues to expand around the globe with its launch to Russia in 2006 and into China and Ukraine in 2007. The Infiniti brand will also be offered across Western Europe by 2008.

Stressing on the outlook for this fiscal year, Ghosn said that the fiscal 2007 will be a better year for Nissan than the year 2006. However, the rising raw material costs, energy prices and interest rates, fluctuating foreign exchange rates, high level of incentives, and an escalating number of troubled competitors and suppliers, would remain as business risks for this year.

Angela

E B asked:


I have a 2004 Nissan Primera with 35k miles at the moment. I’m thinking of doing an oil change. Is this too soon? Also what engine oil would be best suited for this car?

Michael