Christoph Meier, a sound engineer at Mercedes-Benz, typically spends time making engine noise less jarring. For the carmaker’s new electric models, he’s had to do the opposite — create sound.

London’s black cabs, built to the same design for 54 years, are following iconic red phone boxes and Routemaster buses towards extinction as their manufacturer fights bankruptcy.

Nissan’s quarterly profit dropped 20% as Japanese car makers took a battering from the earthquake and tsunami disaster which disrupted production and destroyed dealerships.

Nissan Motor Co said it is recalling more than 345,000 vehicles in Japan and abroad due to faulty brakes and fuel gauges.

Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn drove quietly out of the Japanese carmaker's soon-to-open headquarters today in the first public viewing of its new zero-emission vehicle.

Nissan’s new car paint repairs its own scratches and scrapes, the company has claimed.

THE dollar dropped to a record low against the euro in New York after industry reports showed indexes of Chicago manufacturing and US consumer confidence fell this month.

Local Japanese carmakers plan to step up efforts to have more of their new cars certified as low-emission vehicles by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.