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[Nissan Press Release]
A world premiere of a futuristic concept car and of an all-new production car, as well as a heavily revised version of an existing model will be the stars of Nissan’s 2008 Paris Motor Show.
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All the stars of the show share a philosophy of tackling the reality of mobility in and around the city, today, tomorrow and in the more distant future.
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[Nissan Press Release]
Photos courtesy of Nissan
TOKYO (Sept. 4, 2008) - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the launch of a new clean diesel X-TRAIL “20GT,” which goes on sale September 18 at Nissan dealers nationwide. The new X-TRAIL 20GT has met Japan’s stringent “Post New Long-term Regulations”(1) – the first vehicle in the world to do so(2).
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SHIFT_challenging spirit.
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[Originally from Nissan]
Photos courtesy of Nissan
In the long-established midsummer’s endurance race, Round 6 of SUPER GT the “International POKKA 1000km” event took place on August 24th at Suzuka Circuit (1 lap: 5.807km). Starting from fourth on the grid, the CALSONIC IMPUL GT-R (#12 Tsugio Matsuda/Sebastien Philippe) withstood the severe long-distance and about six hours’ racing to take the win. The NISSAN GT-R has now taken a total of four victories from six races in this season’s SUPER GT.
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Setting the 2ND-quickest time in qualifying, the MOTUL AUTECH GT-R (#22 Michael Krumm/Masataka Yanagida/Dominik Schwager) inherited pole position when the #100 NSX had to start from the back, ahead of the 173-lap, 1,000-kilometre event. From the opening lap, veteran driver Michael Krumm led beautifully, handing over to Yanagida from the front as scheduled. Though he temporarily lost the lead due to being blocked by a GT300 car ahead, the team’s deft pit work ensured they soon returned to the head of the field. Krumm and Yanagida alternated driving duties, safeguarding their position until the halfway point of the race. On lap 118, third driver Dominik Schwager got behind the wheel. Soon after, the rear cowl suddenly started to come off the car, making for a very delicate situation. An unscheduled visit to the pits meant that regrettably, the machine fell out of contention for the win. However, the team fought relentlessly to the very end, and with Michael Krumm driving the final stint, reached fourth place at the flag.
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Nissan’s “Nissan Green Program 2010″ seeks out eco-friendly technologies to develop products and services that cut CO2 emissions, produce clean emissions and recycle resources. As part of this program Nissan has been developing technologies for Fuel Cell vehicles. As reported a while ago, Nissan’s XTrail Fuel Cell Vehicle set the world’s first speed record on the Nurburging track for a Fuel Cell Vehicle. It was slow, but it proved the point that Fuel Cell Vehicles can race around a track. With Nissan’s current success at having developed a fuel cell stack that doubles the power output compared to the previous generation, we may see a Fuel Cell Vehicle doing lap times closer to that achieved by the GT-R. Well maybe not in the near future, but one day at least. What’s also notable about this next generation Fuel Cell Stack is that it cuts down 35% of the cost of production. It does this by using less Platinum, an integral part of a Fuel Cell Stack. This is important as one of the drawbacks of alternative fuel vehicles is cost. Hybrids are still quite expensive and even more so are other technologies.
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Considering it’s a Fuel Cell Vehicle and probably weighs more than a regular X-Trail, a time of 11 minutes and 58 seconds isn’t that bad. Also it’s the only Fuel Cell Vehicle ever track tested on the Nurburgring. So Nissan and Greenpeace should both be proud - a fast cross-over Fuel Cell Vehicle that’s friendly on the environment!
The X-Trail FCV runs purely on electricity produced by the hydrogen fuel cell stack and so emits zero emissions and runs without so much as a whisper. The regular gas drinking engine has been replaced by an equally powerful electric motor that produces up to 120 horsepower. Although some of the uphill sections were challenging for the X-Trail FCV it was still able to complete the run and clock-in a respectable time to boot. Toyota and Honda may take their own Fuel Cell Vehicles to the track, not wanting to be out done by Nissan.
