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Called "Open the Briefcase," the online adventure series gets the reader involved in some high-speed, action-oriented excitement with the all-new Nissan Rogue.

Recently, Torque News editor Armen Hareyan asked Nissan LEAF owners what safety items they thought should be added to their cars. Their answers plus a look at safety ratings shows that the LEAF could stand some improvement when it comes to safety.

Nissan's NISMO is now officially sponsoring Muscle Milk for the 2014 series and will have driver exchanges for races like the Rolex 24, Sebring, and Petit. Will the company dominate like it did in the 80s?

My 2013 Nissan Leaf SV is special to me because I have to drive 130 miles a day and this EV saves a lot of money in gas. I calculated that after the costs of my last car, plus gas, I am pocketing 270 dollars a month after my car payment, says Randy Hamlet from Chillicothe, Ohio.

Nissan has returned stellar sales reports for both December 2013 and for 2013 as a whole. Big winners in terms of sales increases are the LEAF and Pathfinder, both scoring in the triple digits.

The LEAF is the number one selling battery electric vehicle in the world, but with the new Annual Energy Outlook report for 2014 predicting that EVs will only be a fraction of the automotive market by 2040, where does that leave Nissan's flagship electric?

The Detroit Auto Show will see an exciting debut from Nissan, who will be introducing a new sport sedan concept that is very likely to go to production. Delving through the clues, we deduce what it will be.

The maximum range for any electric vehicle is to be had at around a 60-75 degree Fahrenheit "Goldilocks zone," data from a Canadian fleet management company suggests. Outside of that, range degradation begins to seriously impact performance in an EV.

A common misconception among Juke owners is that the vehicle is slower in all-wheel drive mode than it is in front-wheel drive. With both comparison testing in the real-world plus some insight into the Juke's powertrain, we get to the bottom of this.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Enjoy this video of a Nissan Juke drifting a surprise shape to some holiday music. Check out what the Juke has made when it's done!

In a creative, but wholly unrealistic portrayal of a daily commute in the all-new 2014 Nissan Rogue, a new commercial pushes the crossover as not only ultra-capable, but also very fun. Can they do that?

Luke Aker decided to sell his well-loved 1996 Maxima on Craigslist and produced one of the greatest ads of all time, complete with gravel-voiced narration and professional video. The $1,400 asking price seemed a bargain given the excellent ad and to someone, at least, it was bargain basement. Who that someone is will surprise you.

Nissan has crowned a new winner for the GTA this year, with the final episode airing on Spike TV in a dramatic last lap, earning the victor the red helmet in the gamer-to-racer quest.

Cabs in New York City see things no one else will likely ever see. Find out what the new NV200 Taxi from Nissan has been seeing for the past few weeks.

Electric cars are just for short distances. Right? Well, with the right circumstances, they can do more than that as Steve Marsh proves with his 130-mile daily commute, which has put over 100,000 miles on his Nissan LEAF and saved him thousands in gasoline costs.

Nissan's Vice President of Product Planning, Pierre Loing, gave a one-on-one interview with Torque News where we asked him about Nissans' policy of keeping the old Rogue and G37 models around even as all-new versions are rolled out. His answer? Flexibility.

Nissan of Europe has decided to create a new kind of "new car smell," the "scent of the future," as a way to promote the Nissan LEAF electric car. Madness you say?

The Nissan GT-R that Paul Walker drove as Brian O'Conner in the Fast and Furious movie franchise has been put up for sale in Germany. Hoax or real?

There's a good reason that your Nissan Juke, even with the AWD package, does horribly in the snow. If you're a Juke owner, you need to re-write that letter to Santa and ask for this.

Not long ago, we predicted that the direction Nissan was headed was towards selling cars online. Now we have proof as the company has opened up its first website to sell cars on the Internet.

Nissan is the largest single automaker taking part in Australia's super-popular V8 Supercars race series, with their newly-minted Altima racers flying around the circuit. Now some of those racers may be going abroad as part of the Global Driver Exchange program Nissan supports, with one being slated to join the Le Mans 24 Hours team.

The designer of the DeltaWing sees the BladeGlider and ZEOD RC cars as infringements on his design patent for the DeltaWing, which Nissan is no longer a part of. He has requested a cease-and-desist order from the courts.

A Georgia man was arrested for plugging in his electric car at a public outlet. In this first case of its kind, a precedent for how EV owners are treated may be set. We weigh in on the subject. UPDATED

Zydrunas Savickas pulled twelve Nissan Note cars for five meters, setting a new Guinness world record. The five-time World Strongest Man champion required only one attempt to make the record. See it on video here.

Nissan featured a system powered by Oculus in their booth at the Tokyo Motor Show in which visitors could take either of the IDx concept cars and completely personalize them in what Nissan calls the beginnings of the "co-creation process." This is the future of car buying.

Automakers are mostly flying high right now, seeing sales jump over last year as economic recovery begins. The company, of course, says this is because of high consumer demand. Is that the real reason?

If you're like we are here at Torque News, then you watch videos like this one for the Nissan BladeGlider and thump your foot like a rabbit in a cartoon with hearts in his pupils. Plus, I make a huge confession that may change your opinion of me as a car guy.

The Nissan NV200 is undergoing a voluntary recall for a wiring harness issue. Only a handful of the up-and-coming commercial van are subject to the safety recall.

Nissan has released a new video that details the making of the GT-R NISMO. Very awesome for GT-R fans.

The 2014 CUBE comes in three model trims and sees a price hike for the new model year, but otherwise no discernible change from 2013.