SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hankook Tire & Technology Co., the world’s sixth-largest tiremaker by sales, said Tuesday it has recently begun supplying tires for Nissan Motor Corp.’s Frontier pickup truck. Hankook Tire has provided the high-performance Dynapro HT and Dynapro AT2 SUV tires in the form of original equipment (OE) products for the [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it will withdraw its operations from South Korea by December amid weak sales caused by lingering anti-Japan sentiment and the new coronavirus outbreak. The Japanese carmaker will pull out the Nissan and premium Infiniti brands as part of its global business reorganization, the company [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nissan Motor Corp. said Monday it will continue its operations in South Korea amid trade tensions between the two Asian neighbors, despite headwinds like a boycott of Japanese products. The Japanese carmaker’s commitment to South Korea follows market rumors that it will pull out of the market here as [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp., amid prolonged strikes after failing to reach a labor collective agreement, is concerned that the recent crisis will have an impact on its consignment production of Nissan cars. Nissan Motor Co. told Renault Samsung recently that it wants to reduce the yearly production quota of [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesday that it has fined Nissan Korea 900 million won (US$804,000) for inflating gas mileage figures for its Infiniti Q50 2.2d sedans. The Japanese car’s fuel efficiency reaches 14.6 kilometers per liter, but the local unit of the Japanese carmaker overstated the fuel efficiency [...]
GWANGJU, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The owner of a Nissan Altima purchased in November of 2015 has been facing difficulties in getting his vehicle properly fixed by the Japanese automaker’s maintenance service. Persuaded by the positive reviews of Japanese vehicles’ performance, the 51-year-old owner paid 29.4 million won for the sedan and had seemingly [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government said Tuesday it will ban sales of six models by three foreign automakers, accusing them of fabricating reports to win sales approval from the local government. The Ministry of Environment said it detected defects in the certification documents of 10 vehicle models from the local [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Nissan Korea Co., the South Korean importer of Nissan cars, will recall over 7,500 vehicles sold here for a software defect that may lead to air bag failures, the transportation ministry said Monday. The recall affects 7,574 units of four vehicles models — the Nissan Q50 sedan, the QX60 [...]
SEJONG, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Nissan Korea Co., the local unit of the Japanese carmaker, will recall a combined 4,697 units of its Altima and Maxima sedans for a defect in the passenger seat sensor, the South Korean transportation ministry said Wednesday. Due to an error in the program that detects the front-seat passenger, [...]
SEJONG, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government on Tuesday ordered Nissan Korea Co., the local unit of the Japanese carmaker, to recall hundreds of its SUVs sold here and banned sales of vehicles cited as fabricating emissions results. The Ministry of Environment slapped 340 million won (US$286,000) in fines on Nissan Korea and [...]