02-18-14
Nissan celebrates 80 years of success!
Nissan celebrates 80 years of success!
We are very pleased to announce that Nissan Motor Company is now celebrating its 80th anniversary. Creating the kinds of cars that move people’s hearts is what Nissan is all about. In our pursuit of this ideal, we have always challenged the limits of what is possible by rejecting conventional assumptions and turning conventional wisdom on its head. The last eight decades have seen us take on an endless series of challenges. Looking back over those years, one can see that the challenges we have taken on have centered on 4 main areas.
Sustainability
We have never lost sight of the importance of our relationship with society at large, and have always remained focused on the effects we have on people’s lives. Thanks to this stance, the innovations that we have made along the way have sometimes transcended the realm of automaking and have brought about wide-ranging societal changes. Zero emission vehicles for example. Nissan’s development of electric vehicles began with the Tama Electric Car and that work lead on to today’s Nissan Leaf and the zero emission racing car ZEOD RC.
Accessibility
Ever since Nissan’s founding, we have placed importance on bringing the fun and convenience of automobiles to all. With Datsun brand cars, for example, we aimed to enable each household to own their car by creating Japan’s first mass-produced automobile, and these cars are now symbolic of that age. With the Nissan Z-car series we also made owning a sports car something everyone could achieve. This same stance is what is driving the scheduled relaunch of the Datsun brand in 2014.
Diversity
Learning from overseas engineers, collaborating with companies with differing areas of strength, and increasing Nissan’s organizational and cultural diversity have all contributed greatly to our automaking capabilities. 80 years have now passed since our founding – a time when we were striving hard to learn from the cutting-edge technologies of overseas companies as quickly as we could. Nowadays we have R&D bases located around the globe, and are therefore able to reflect the culture and preferences of local people in the cars we create. Today, right at this very minute, we are carrying on our conversation with our customers worldwide.
Passion
We are very passionate about driving experience, not only with cars like the Skyline and Nissan GT-R, but with all of the cars we produce. And this passion is growing more intense with the passing of time. Through our long years of experience in motorsports, we have learned a great deal about making cars that are faster, more beautiful, safer, more responsive, and simply more fun to drive.
Our passion is to create ever better cars for our customers, and this will always be the case.
We will continue to refuse to be beholden to conventional wisdom. We are driven by the goal of moving people, moving their hearts, and changing the history and we will never rest in our efforts.
