Nissan Murano: Silver Edition
The Nissan Motor Company announced a special edition of their luxury SUV, the "Murano".
3 versions will benefit from this new "Silver Edition": the 2WD 250XL (2.5 liter QR25DE-NEO- engine and E-ATx gearbox) and 350XV (VQ35DE-NEO- engine) and the 4WD 350XV FOUR with the same V6 engine.
The modifications include a leather interior, front seat heaters (available as standard equipment on 3.5L powered versions), more chromes for the doors and the front grill, inspired by the North American version of the Murano, an "intelligent key" system is also part of the mix.
From 3.108.000 to 3.916.500Yen (25.000 to 32.500$) on the Japanese market !
3 versions will benefit from this new "Silver Edition": the 2WD 250XL (2.5 liter QR25DE-NEO- engine and E-ATx gearbox) and 350XV (VQ35DE-NEO- engine) and the 4WD 350XV FOUR with the same V6 engine.
The modifications include a leather interior, front seat heaters (available as standard equipment on 3.5L powered versions), more chromes for the doors and the front grill, inspired by the North American version of the Murano, an "intelligent key" system is also part of the mix.
From 3.108.000 to 3.916.500Yen (25.000 to 32.500$) on the Japanese market !
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I remember my parents having a Mitsubishi TV when I was a kid. I remember, when I was little, I was surprised to find out they made cars. Actually, the Mitsubishi Group is a giant company (which is more like a loose alliance of barely-related companies that share the same name), which used to be a Zaibatsu (the reason why all these companies share a name), with divisions in nearly every industry in Japan. They even have a nuclear energy division, Mitsubishi Atomic Energy. In Japan, the automotive division is always called Mitsubishi Motors (_never_ just "Mitsubishi") to distinguish them from the rest of Mitsubishi.
Nissan also used to be a Zaibatsu before World War II...they didn't make cars for much of their early history as compare to their production of nissan fuel filter; they only entered the auto industry after they bought DAT (where the name Datsun comes from), and the automotive division was jointly owned by Hitachi at the time.
Samsung's fellow Korean company, Hyundai, is similarly organized; it's a loose alliance of companies that were founded by the same guy and share the same name. For example, Hyundai is also one of Korea's top department store chains.
Same goes with Daewoo. GM may own most of what used to be Daewoo Motors (now GM Daewoo Auto & Technology), but a few divisions of Daewoo are still independent. They used to have 289 subsidiaries in 20 divisions, but they shrunk down to three divisions (not including GMDAT) after a late-90s financial crisis forced the company into bankruptcy.
As with some of these other companies, Samsung Motors is barely related to the electronics company. Renault owns over 80% of Samsung Motors, who changed their name to Renault-Samsung Motors not too long ago.