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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Crisis

March 6, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

Recently Motoring Weekly wrote an article about the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance that described the history of the loose grouping of manufacturers and the marques associated with them. This was to set the scene for this article about the management crisis that has enveloped the alliance. Back in November of last year, Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of the Alliance and the … [Read more...]

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance

February 27, 2019 by sjw Leave a Comment

Over the years Motoring Weekly has discussed conglomerates of marques such as British Leyland Motor Company and American Motors Corporation where the parent company swallows several manufacturers to find cost savings by sharing parts and designs. Another way to do this is to have an alliance where the ownership of each entity is still open and where there is no true … [Read more...]

Prince Motor Company

September 3, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

NIssan (Prince) Skyline

This is a brief 14 year manufacturing history of the Prince Motor Company and will cover some of the weapons this manufacturer produced: one an aircraft and the second one would become the Nissan Skyline. In 1924 the Ishikawajima Shipyards branched out into aircraft manufacturing. Many car manufacturers in Japan followed this path starting in ship building before … [Read more...]

Nissan/Infiniti Variable Compression Engine

August 23, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

The evolution of the internal combustion engine is still ongoing despite vast quantities of funding moving towards electric motors. The focus for most manufacturers is to get as much power out of each sip of fuel. Over the years, engines have had extra kit added on to the simple base unit of cylinders that sucked in a fuel/air mix and ignited it. In the early days it was … [Read more...]

Italdesign: Low Volume Cars

August 20, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

Italdesign is another Italian coach-builder or design house to move into limited edition supercars. Pininfarina have also said that they were moving down this path and shows that the world still has lots of discretionary spending dollars available on ultra-luxury toys! Italdesign though, beat their Italian rival by at least 12 months to the market. Italdesign started in 1968 … [Read more...]

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