TMC Announces Regular Personnel Changes

by News Feeder, 17-03-2024, 02:19 AM

On May 1, Toyota Motor Corporation will make the following personnel changes at the sub-executive managerial level.

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Remarks from Daniele Schillaci at Auto China 2016

by News Feeder, 16-03-2024, 01:47 PM

Daniele Schillaci Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing, Nissan Motor Corporation Auto China 2016, April 2016 Good morning, and "nimen hao." It's a great pleasure to be here in Beijing with you. Today, I am excited to outline Nissan's vision for the future. It is a vision that promises zero emissions and zero fatalities. It looks to a time when the relationship with cars will be a true partnership.With Nissan Intelligent Mobility, we are making this vision a reality. On the strength of Intelligent Mobility, we are designing cars that create a better future for personal transportation, like the Nissan IDS Concept. Making its Chinese debut here in Beijing, the Nissan IDS Concept delivers the three key elements of Nissan Intelligent Mobility: Intelligent Power, Intelligent Driving and Intelligent Integration.Let me start with the first element:Nissan Intelligent Power where we are investing in drive and powertrain technologies that promise a cleaner world and increased driving pleasure.The fully electric Nissan LEAF is proof of our progress. The most widely recognized and best-selling electric car in the world, it has now driven more than 2.1 billion kilometers globally.The IDS Concept represents the next step forward. It doubles battery power and increases the range of Nissan's electric cars to 550 kilometers.We continue to advance hybrid powertrains: The Nissan Murano Hybrid, launched in China last year, delivers the fuel economy of a smaller engine with the power of 3.5-liter V6. And the Xtronic CVT provides intelligent power, keeping Nissan engines at peak efficiency.Those are important steps forward to a world of zero emissions and proof that Nissan is leading the way. For all of us, feeling safe and secure is the most vital factor on the road.Nissan Intelligent Driving uses smart technologies that offer peace of mind and make drivers feel more confident. For example, Front Emergency Braking adds a new safety dimension, and delivers on the promise of cars that are autonomous.The Renault-Nissan Alliance will introduce autonomous drive technology to more than 10 models globally, including vehicles here in China. And we will deliver this technology step-by-step.Beginning this year, Piloted Drive 1.0 will introduce single-lane control, which allows the cars to do the driving on highways.At the beginning of 2018, Piloted Drive 2.0 will enable our cars to avoid hazards and change lanes, with no driver involvement.When we deliver Piloted Drive 3.0 in 2020, Nissan autonomous vehicles will be able to drive through urban traffic.With the third element of Intelligent Mobility, the Nissan Intelligent Integration, we see a world in which cars will become an integral part of our connected eco-system.They will network with our social infrastructure, becoming tools for connectivity – not just among people, but among other cars.Nissan vehicles will connect to road information, leading to fewer traffic jams and more efficient car sharing.And they will help to improve energy management.In our vision for the future, our cars will charge as they drive. They will become mobile power units, linking with electric grids and providing clean energy for homes and businesses.Here in China, we will promote "Nissan Intelligent Mobility" and related technologies under a strong collaboration with Ching-hua University. Now, let me give you another proof point and show you how we are preparing for an exciting future.In 2005, when the first-generation Tiida was introduced in China, it redefined the compact hatchback market.Since then, Tiida has gone from strength to strength, thanks to our partner Dongfeng Group. Together, we have created a car that appeals to a young and dynamic person. This personality aligns with the "Young Nissan Strategy," being promoted by Dongfeng Nissan. With a dynamic design, advanced powertrain and safety features, this third-generation Tiida means a great deal to China and to Nissan.It is an example of Intelligent Mobility.An improved engine, with Stop and Start system and CVT, highlight the value of Intelligent Power.Intelligent Driving is delivered through multiple safety features: Forward Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warning and Blind Spot Warning.These intelligent technologies are elements of autonomous driving.Drivers enjoy the benefits of Intelligent Integration with Carplay and Bluetooth connectivity.Ladies and Gentlemen, the intelligent revolution is happening.I am proud to say that Nissan is at the forefront.We are building on our efforts around the world.With a series of new model launches as Murano, Qashqai and Lannia, China continues to play a major role.In fact, this past year Dongfeng Nissan sold a record number of vehicles.The future remains bright, as we introduce another exciting new product.But to tell you more, I am delighted to welcome the Deputy Managing Director of Dongfeng Nissan, Mr. Zhou [Mr. Joe].Ladies and gentlemen, this is the new Nissan Tiida.About Nissan Motor Co. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Japan's second-largest automotive company, is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan, and is part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. Operating with more than 247,500 employees globally, Nissan sold 5.32 million vehicles and generated revenue of 11.38 trillion yen (USD 103.6 billion) in fiscal year 2014. Nissan delivers a comprehensive range of more than 60 models under the Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun brands. Nissan leads the world in zero-emission mobility, dominated by sales of the LEAF, the first mass-market, pure-electric vehicle. It is the best-selling EV in history. For more information on our products, services and commitment to sustainable mobility, visit our website at Nissan-Global.com/EN/. # # #

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Toyota to Restart Production on All Vehicle Assembly Lines in Japan from May 6

by News Feeder, 16-03-2024, 04:00 AM

Between May 6 and 14, Toyota will resume production on all vehicle assembly lines in Japan after a scheduled holiday between April 29 and May 5. The vehicle assembly lines that have remained suspended until this point will restart production, in addition to those that have or will have started operation this week.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Accepting 2016 Applications

by News Feeder, 16-03-2024, 03:15 AM

Toyota Motor Corporation began accepting applications today for this year's Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program, which is designed to support environmental revitalization and conservation activities aimed at sustainable development.

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Fiscal Year Ended March 2016 Financial Results Announcement

by News Feeder, 16-03-2024, 03:15 AM

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3rd Forum Held in Myanmar to Share Tokyo's Expertise in Municipal Solid Waste Managem

by News Feeder, 16-03-2024, 01:07 AM

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Nissan President vip build

by Stiffshifter, 15-03-2024, 07:03 PM

This is my 1998 Nissan President that I am in the process of turning into a vip style car. Exhaust is already sorted, coilovers were bought from Japan waiting to be fitted along with some 4 pot calipers and drilled and slotted discs.

Infiniti QX Sport Inspiration: Q&A with Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti Executive Design Di

by News Feeder, 15-03-2024, 06:45 PM

With the QX Sport Inspiration, Infiniti has started to explore the potential to expand its portfolio in the mid-size SUV market – one of the world's largest and fastest-growing premium segments. Here is an interview with Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti Executive Design Director, about QX Sport Inspiration.Q1: How does the QX Sport Inspiration influence the Infiniti SUV's direction? Albaisa: In the last few years we've been showing a lot of 'on-road' type of concept cars and launching them. With the QX Sport Inspiration, it's now that we are showing the public what the SUVs will look like – that is, what happens to this artistry and muscularity when it starts to take on a more commanding presence.Q2: Can you tell us how it expresses that commanding presence? Albaisa: With the QX Sport Inspiration, a commanding presence is shown by a raised center of gravity, so we're no longer focused on dropping the car to the ground or making it grounded. Now, we are trying to show its capabilities. By raising the centre of gravity and keeping it between the wheels, you are able to have the same sense of sculpture and artistry, but it now takes on the impression that it can go over any kind of road surface.Q3 What was the inspiration for this design? Did nature and the environment play a part? Albaisa: Infiniti models all have some inspiration from nature, with the organic shapes that are contrasted with very sharp, angular elements. This is how we mix and curate the palette. Strictly, I wouldn't say that it's inspired by nature as much as a sense of performance, which has some organic sense of muscularity and artistry.Q4 The QX Sport Inspiration has organic flowing lines. How did the team execute those lines when they started to sketch the vehicle? Albaisa: When the designers started, one of the first elements that we felt was natural to keep was the very strong and straight shoulder. What is happening with the QX Sport Inspiration is that the body has become a bit deeper, and it has a reverse wedge. This started to show up in the sketches of the designers, especially with the body core sweeping down to the rear wheel. Again, I think it gives it its 'leaping' quality that we don't really use on the road cars but we find interesting for the SUVs. Q5: How has the human artistry aspect manifested into the design of the unique parts of the QX Sport Inspiration? Albaisa: Advanced human artistry that we started showing on the Q80 Inspiration has made its way into the QX Sport Inspiration, especially in the sense of the power coming from the engine. From the front wheel area, the body side is quite tight and it has the sense of muscular intention. As it opens up toward the rear, it's delivering the power towards the rear wheels. This expression and how those sections transition towards the back is still where we exhibit this artistry.Q6: How have the Infiniti design cues made their way into QX Sport Inspiration? Albaisa: Like all Infiniti models, QX Sport Inspiration has our three common attributes. We have our 'double-arch grille,' our focused 'human eye' and of course our 'crescent-cut 'C' pillar.' On the grille, we have maintained the larger aspect that we have on Q60 and Q80, among others. Now, we are playing with the mesh on QX Sport Inspiration. It's a mix between geometry and organic shapes, which we felt had this nice kind of granularity and detail. The focused human eye now has gone very high tech so each of the segments, the little box sections, are part of an intelligent adaptive system. This can follow people that cross into the way of the car and is also sensitive to oncoming traffic, so this kind of high tech – but still human eye aspect – we keep. Then, as you come around the side, the crescent-cut C-pillar is quite structural and it looks like it holds up the roof. But it still has this sense of artistry in its signature itself.Q7: What does 'power through proportion clarity' mean? Albaisa: We express in our architecture, power through proportional clarity. We use proportion at a glance as an identifier for Infiniti. This comes back to the first FX, currently the QX70. At a glance, you immediately notice the very long hood, very straight shoulder and a kind of pod-like cabin, which was set back. It was a silhouette in a proportion that you would never forget. We've learned from this and we bring it to every car, so that in this kind of clarity the proportion has a signature. The proportion has a power, expresses a power in the engine and the drivetrain. These are the fundamental steps of Infiniti design.Q8: Can you tell us a bit more about the stance of this car? Albaisa: One of the things that we really like about QX Sport Inspiration is that it's leaning forward, ready to pounce, ready to leap, can go over anything. But it still maintains a very chic, elegant artistry. This is how we keep an Infiniti DNA, regardless of the segment.Q9: How have you introduced the muscularity into the design of QX Sport Inspiration? Albaisa: When we were setting the architecture and the muscularity, the body side exudes this sense that the core is tight and opens up towards the back. An arching, downward motion gives you a feeling that the muscularity, or the gesture of the vehicle, is going to pounce, is going to leap, that it can go over any terrain that it encounters. This is part of the SUV DNA of Infiniti.Q10: What does 'Powerful Elegance' mean in relation to the QX Sport Inspiration? Albaisa: Every Infiniti has 'Powerful Elegance,' no matter the segment or the age group of the customer, because they buy into this culture that Infiniti has, where we can mix something in the soul that is powerful, expressive, but also has a nuanced artistry that is almost in contrast or opposition. QX Sport Inspiration does this in a similar way to the Q80 Inspiration, in the sense of the artistry of the body, the way nothing stays the same - the sections through the body side are transitioning, they tense and release, they surround the wheel openings in a very beautiful way. So the artistry is always in the sculpture.Q11: Does the QX Sport Inspiration signal a new exploration into the SUV sector for Infiniti? Albaisa: The QX Sport Inspiration is the first glimpse of what future Infiniti models will look like as SUVs. Of course, we have much more to come beyond SUVs but you are going to see, now, the beginning of the next generation of Infiniti SUV.Q12: How do the interior materials reflect the new direction for future SUVs? Albaisa: When you come inside the QX Sport Inspiration, the artistry is enhanced with the use of the hides and the leathers. We use saddle leather, which is quite thick and very hard to move over shapes. So those bits of surface tend to be sheer and somewhat linear or plainer. Then we have very smooth leather that is sliced, that is stretched out, exposing speakers from behind. So the QX Sport Inspiration inside is a very advanced sense of artistry; in the sense of the tailor, very experimental, a very high contrast as the blacks and the whites are next to each other, and quite bold. Also, the array of textures is quite impressive.Q13: What are the QX Sport Inspiration's most outstanding SUV features? Albaisa: The most outstanding part of the QX Sport Inspiration is how the form language of Infiniti clearly has become more muscular, more assertive and more commanding. But still, never loses the fingerprint of the artist – this is probably the most outstanding feature of the vehicle.Q14: What does the future of all SUVs look like for Infiniti? Albaisa: As we start to look at the genres of the SUVs, you'll expect two or three cars that will have different degrees of commanding presence. If you look at today's portfolio, we have our mid-size and slightly larger cars. So we'll start to reveal, in shows to come, how these aspects from QX Sport Inspiration work their way through the portfolio. About Infiniti Infiniti Motor Company Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong with sales operations in over 50 countries. The Infiniti brand was launched in 1989. Its range of premium automobiles is currently built in manufacturing facilities in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom and China. Infiniti plans to also expand manufacturing into Mexico by 2017.Infiniti design studios are located in Atsugi-Shi near Yokohama, London, San Diego and Beijing.Infiniti is in the middle of a major product offensive. The brand has been widely acclaimed for its daring design and innovative driver-assistance technologies.From the 2016 season, Infiniti is a technical partner of the Renault Sport Formula One team, contributing its expertise in hybrid performance.More information about Infiniti, its Total Ownership Experience® and its industry leading technologies can be found at InfinitiUSA.com. For the latest news on Infiniti, visit InfinitiNews.com. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and see all our latest videos on YouTube. # # # ContactFor Infiniti U.S. Communications, contact:Nick Twork Director Corporate Communications Infiniti Americas (615) 725-4038 [email protected]e Bazemore Senior Manager Infiniti USA Communications (615) 725-3210 [email protected] For Infiniti Global Communications, contact:Matthew Davis Director, Infiniti Global Communications Infiniti Motor Company Ltd., Hong Kong Phone: +852 3948 0127 Mobile: +852 9542 1711 Email: [email protected] Walsh Senior Manager, Infiniti Global Communications Infiniti Motor Company Ltd., Hong Kong Phone: +852 3948 0129 Mobile: +852 9447 9705 Email: [email protected]ie Davies Manager, Infiniti Global Communications Infiniti Motor Company Ltd., Hong Kong Phone: +852 3948 0903 Mobile: +852 9542 1717 Email: [email protected]

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Fresh user from Poland

by Arri3, 15-03-2024, 04:18 PM

Hi everyone!

I had an occasion to visit several threads on this forum and decided to register! I have found here many useful information regarding Lexus IS200 which I happen to own

Thank you guys for what I found and for what I will eventually find here and maybe I will repay by inputing some tips from me.

By the way,

My car and its thread:

http://www.outlawjapclub.co.uk/forum/sho...post237354

Cheers,

Adrian!

IS200 Sport 8M6

by Arri3, 15-03-2024, 04:17 PM

Hi everyone,

I would like to briefly introduce my IS200.

It is a full Sport version available in 2001:

- aluminum drilled pedals
- stainless steel scuff plates
- torsen-type LSD
- contact spoiler,
- stainless steel exhaust pipe finisher
- shaded rear windows
- two-tone steering wheel
- 15mm rear anti-roll bar
- sport coilovers

+ optional mesh grill.

The grill was debadged unfortunately and I cannot find the "Sport" emblem anywhere to buy.













Equipment includes:

- half-leather
- both electric adjusted seats
- auto lights
- headlamp washers
- wide-view rear mirror
- premium audio
- double locking

Plans:

- Supercharger M62 (already bought one, just completing parts and begin to work)
- headlight interior black

To be updated...

Regards,

Adrian.