Nissan Juke most popular in IIMS 2011

Nissan's efforts to bring Juke IIMS 2011 was not in vain. 5-passenger crossover successfully won the title of this latest car to join the largest automotive exhibition in Indonesia.

Nissan won the popular vote 26.6 percent of the survey conducted Dyandra Promosindo as the organizers of 1,500 visitors. The second position is achieved by the Toyota Fortuner which won 16.34 percent of votes, and the Honda Jazz in third place with 16.3 percent.

Meanwhile, for the category of exhibition booth with an area of ​​700 square meters to the bottom, Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicle managed to become the favorite followed by Hyundai and Kia Mobil Indonesia.

In the category of booth size 700 square feet to 1,000 square feet, the BMW was in first position, followed by Mazda and Isuzu. As Toyota has become the most favorite for the size of 1,000 square feet to the top, followed by Honda and Nissan.

Source: kompas.com

New taxi new york city from Nissan

Taxis in New York that yellow has become a distinctive feature of the city.

Japanese automotive company Nissan won the tender for the procurement of a taxi in New York.

New York now known as the yellow taxi cab yellow or will use the vehicles produced by Nissan as a new generation of taxis.

New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said the total contract value of the taxi was estimated at U.S. $ 1 billion.

Nissan will be producing a taxi with type NV200 minivan models.

This vehicle will be equipped with a host of sophisticated devices such as satellite navigation that makes the passengers until the destination correctly and do not give a reason also for the driver to not know the destination.

NV200 also designed by placing the window on the roof that allows passengers to enjoy views of skyscraper buildings in New York.

NV200 Minivan unit price is U.S. $ 29,000 or approximately 247 million dollars and is cheaper than a vehicle that offered by two competing companies participating in this tender are U.S. companies, Ford Motor and Turkish firm, Karsan automotive.

"Once people use these taxis then they will love it. Taxi This will represent New York," said Commissioner who handle about Taxi and Limousine New York, David Yassky.

Nissan plans to produce NV200 in one of its factories located in Mexico.

This is the first vehicle designed specifically intentionally by them as a taxi in New York and will begin to be used in 2013.

Currently there are at least 13 thousand taxis that serve the needs of 600,000 passengers each day in the city.

source: bbcindonesia.com