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Video paints fantasy picture for Nissan Juke

WITH VIDEO -- Nissan Canada is reaching out to the video-gamer crowd to tout its Juke small crossover. The company is running a series of video episodes on YouTube with the common theme of "Urban Legend." We know this after getting an e-mail--which may or may not be part of a cloaked marketing effort--that points us to the latest video. The Juke, which uses Nissan's global small-car platform and has a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, is arriving in showrooms now.

Volvo drops plans to compete in the luxury F-Segment car market

In fact, at the Shanghai Motor Show in 2011, Volvo delivered the Concept Universe car which we all though was pointing the way to what could be a Volvo S90; Volvo’s luxury car for Chinese plutocrats. It sported a rather strange ‘East meets West’ design language with a very odd nose and lots of curves, and it wasn’t exactly showered in plaudits. But that didn’t stop Volvo coming back at Frankfurt in 2011 with an altogether more convincing concept – the Volvo Concept You – that sported a much clearer vision for a future luxury Volvo.

Ghosn wants to expand Daimler ties; calls alliance a ‘powerhouse'

With chatter swirling about potential expansion of the Renault-Nissan alliance, CEO Carlos Ghosn on Thursday put his support directly into expanding the automakers' relationship with Daimler AG. “We know we have a powerhouse,” Ghosn said in a media roundtable at the Paris auto show. “When you add the R&D of Renault, Nissan and Daimler, we are the largest in the industry,” Ghosn said.