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911 Turbo Drops 10 Seconds At Nurburgring

Mike TheMekanic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:25:22 +0000

Nissan announced that the GT-R had set a new lap record on the Nurburgring with a lap time of 7 minutes and 29 seconds back on April 17, 2008. Since then, there has been rather “interesting tit for tat” between the German sports car builder Porsche and the Japanese automaker Nissan seeing who is faster [...]

Nissan Land Glider Concept

Mike TheMekanic — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:44:38 +0000

At the Tokyo Motor Show this morning, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn rolled silently onto the stage in the company’s latest battery powered concept, the Land Glider. Powered by battery, the Land Glider is not the first leaning car. Intended to be an urban runabout, the two-seat Land Glider is extremely narrow. It certainly will help ease [...]

How Tight Can You Park

Mike TheMekanic — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:48:28 +0000

Look at how narrow this guy’s car park is. Do you reckon you can do better? With a car park that size, you can’t buy a car any bigger, LOL. Btw, that was great parking skills.

Fast And Furious For Real

Mike TheMekanic — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:59:45 +0000

If you are into cars (which I’m sure you are, otherwise you wouldn’t have ended up on this site , right) I’m sure you would have heard of the Fast and Furious. Guys with supped up nitro enhanced cars that can avoid bullets. I’ve not that into FF but I’m old enough to remember [...]

Car Ring Tones?

Mike TheMekanic — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:39:00 +0000

pic credit All of us at one time or another have tried ringtones for our mobile phones. It all started in the days when most phones have a limited choice of ringtones and everybody started to reach for their when a call come in. Now, I reckon, we are possibly at the verge of a [...]

2010 Nissan Sentra and Versa Package

Mike TheMekanic — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:21:31 +0000

Great news for gadget aficionado that have been put of with high prices for in car navigation system. Finally Nissan came out with an affordable $400 system for the 2010 Sentra and Versa. Such systems used to cost anything between $1,500 to 3,000 now is made available to people without deep pockets especially for a [...]

Fuel Economy And Safety Impossible?

Mike TheMekanic — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:00 +0000

I wonder would you trade your life and limb just to save a few dollars? It is not that simple. While in my last post, I mentioned that older cars tend to be less save due to modern cars having better metals and are better built for safety, small cars are relatively less safe compared [...]

Classic Car Safety

Mike TheMekanic — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:29:02 +0000

Quite a few people are interested in classic cars but how is their safety levels? Most of us sometime still say the ever famous line "they don’t make them like they used to". But do they actually make them like they used to? Check out this video. After this video, perhaps it find [...]

GT-R Ala Transformer Inferno

Mike TheMekanic — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:51:17 +0000

The multi-talented GT-R’s got a new role, by my reckoning, as the world’s fastest fire truck. Fire truck you say? Okay, perhaps the word truck is stretching it a bit too far but that’s exactly what a GT-R will do. German tuning company M&M Automotive kitted the conversion of the GT-R, removed the supercar’s backseats and [...]

Grand Livina Impul

Mike TheMekanic — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:17:54 +0000

Sometime ago, Nissan decided to put the word “sporty” into a MPV. While we know that Nissan is more than capable of producing rocket on wheel aka the GTR aka Godzilla, making a Livina Impul “sporty” is a different ball game. However, I’m sure there are enough enthusiastic drivers around who can’t afford another car, [...]