Nissan is one of the most popular names in the automotive industry and has designed some of the most beautiful and fastest cars in the world. Producing everything from sports cars to pickup trucks, Nissan continues to increase sales. Some of its vehicles might seem like a smart buy, thanks to their impressive performance and affordable price, but there are several factors you need to consider before purchasing one.

When you look at the annual maintenance cost and the factory recommended maintenance schedule, these Nissan vehicles might not be so appealing. But having a prepaid maintenance plan or looking for an extended car warranty can help you save money on ownership costs. These Nissan cars may offer everything from incredible performance to generous practicality, but their annual maintenance costs far exceed other models from the brand.

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10/10 Nissan 370Z – $608

The Nissan 370Z is the latest production Z car to feature a naturally aspirated V6 engine mated to a manual transmission. So even though it is no longer in production, its appeal has not diminished. However, keeping the 370Z on the road might hurt your pocket a bit.

It will cost you around $608 to keep the 370Z in good shape all year round. So in 10 years you might be spending over $6,000 maintaining and repairing the 370Z. During this period, there is a 17.36% chance that the 370Z will require a major repair.

9/10 Nissan Altima- $563

The Nissan Altima is a family sedan with sharp looks, decent fuel economy and enough power to exploit. However, like most cars, it’s far from perfect. Most Altima riders experience issues such as engine stalls, oil leaks, and stuck thermostats causing overheating.

You will spend approximately $563 per year to maintain your Altima. Although that seems like a high maintenance cost for a Nissan, it’s relatively cheaper than sedans like the Kia K5 and Subaru Legacy.

8/10 Nissan Armada- $647

The Nissan Armada appeals to three-row SUV buyers with its smooth ride, impressive towing capacity and hint of luxury. But it’s not uncommon for drivers to experience sudden brake failure and crash backup malfunction.

The annual maintenance cost of the Armada is estimated at $647, by your mechanic. After its first 10 years on the road, you may have spent nearly $7,932 on maintenance, according to CarEdge. This figure is $1,201 more than the average maintenance cost of an SUV.

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7/10 Nissan GT-R – $824

There’s a lot to love about the Nissan GT-R. For one thing, it’s fast with plenty of cornering grip. Additionally, the GT-R is not that susceptible to rust and it lasts a long time, being able to go up to 150,000 miles before needing major repairs. With a healthy maintenance routine, the GT-R can last over 200,000 miles.

However, when it comes time for repairs, the GT-R doesn’t leave you smiling, having squeezed around $824 out of your pocket every year. Comparatively, the Nissan GT-R is cheaper to maintain than the BMW i8 but costs more than the Dodge Charger.

6/10 Nissan Kicks – $723

The Nissan Kicks is one of the more affordable subcompact crossovers that still manages to be fuel efficient, roomy and durable. With the proper maintenance culture, Kicks can perform well for up to 18 years.

However, you can spend around $723 every year to keep the Kicks in good shape. Owners of Nissan Kicks can often hear clicks coming from the instrument cluster or the vehicle stopping while driving without warning. Another problem that may cause you to see your mechanic often is rough engine idling and a grinding transmission.

5/10 Nissan Maxima – $608

Currently in its eighth generation, the Nissan Maxima has evolved from a simple four-door sports car to a high-tech powerhouse. It’s the top-of-the-line alternative to the Altima that delivers an adrenaline-fueled ride with a gusty V6.

The Nissan Maxima costs you $608 on maintenance and repairs each year, which is more than that of an average sedan. On the bright side, you can expect the Maxima to get at least 200,000 miles.

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4/10 Nissan Murano – $588

As Nissan’s first crossover SUV on American soil, the Murano is still going strong after three generations, thanks to its striking styling, thrilling performance, decent fuel mileage and durability. However, you can spend around $588 a year to keep the Murano on the road.

The average Murano can run fine for the first 10 years without any major issues. Don’t overlook any hints of trouble with the transmission, as it can experience a sudden push forward. With proper care it can go well over 200,000 miles.

3/10 Nissan Pathfinder – $678

The rugged style and off-road capabilities of the Nissan Pathfinder have never been in doubt. Now in its fifth generation, the Pathfinder now leads its class in towing capacity. But to run the Pathfinder all year round, you have to part with about $678.

The cost of maintaining the Pathfinder exceeds that of an average SUV. But considering that the Nissan off-roader can serve you well for over 300,000 miles, the cost of maintenance is understandable.

2/10 Nissan Sentra- $558

In a mission to deliver a sedan that conjures up images of safety, Nissan introduced the Sentra in 2006 and after eight generations it has shown no signs of stopping. With an average annual maintenance cost of $558, the Sentra is ready to meet your needs for city commuting and weekend getaways.

It should be noted that the Sentra costs more to maintain than the average sedan, with peeling paint, power steering issues, and transmission issues being the most common issues. That said, you can expect the Sentra to serve up to 16 years before giving you serious maintenance headaches.

1/10 Nissan Rogue- $610

With its comfort features, fuel efficiency and can-do attitude, it’s no surprise that the Rogue is one of Nissan’s best-selling vehicles in the United States. It’s also reasonably affordable, but the downside is that it costs more to maintain than your average SUV.

You can spend around $610 to keep the Rogue in good shape every year. Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) failure and mysterious suspension noise are issues that Rogue owners often have to deal with.

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Heavy rains continuously closed the road between Patong and Kathu in Phuket. The road was once open to pedestrians, then to motorcycles only, before reopening to cars. But now the road on Patong Hill was firm to cars again, starting early this morning due to road repairs and ground shifting.

The announcement was made late last night when Patong Municipality took to Facebook to post a notice at 10.50pm. The declaration took effect almost immediately, with Phra Barami Road – Route 4029 – being closed to vehicular traffic just over an hour later at 00:01.

The municipality said in its message that the soil under the road plagued by rain erosion and landslides had shifted further. Officials feared the road was unstable and deemed it unsafe for cars to travel. The road closure above Patong Hill will only prohibit private cars from traveling the path. motorcycles and foot traffic will still be allowed on the crossing.

There is also a special lane on the road above Patong Hill designated for vans, vans and similar cars. This route is the farthest from the damage, so these types of eligible vehicles may still be permitted to ascend the mountain pass according to the Phuket News.

But after closing at midnight this morning, there is no fixed closing time. Officials did not mention a date or time when they aim to reopen the road to all through vehicles.

The Phra Barami road linking Kathu and Patong has been a weak point in Phuket’s infrastructure which has suffered from heavy rains in recent months. It was first closed due to damage and landslides nearly a month ago on October 19. Road workers were able to clear and stabilize the pavement enough to allow motorbikes to pass in both directions over Patong Hill a week later, starting October 26.

On November 4, small cars were finally allowed through Patong Hill. And just two days ago, the road was fully reopened to vans and pickups. But the Patong Municipality Facebook post restricted that again.

“For the safety of motorists traveling up the hill from Kathu, the road will be closed to cars from 12:01 a.m. on November 12. Only motorcycles will be allowed to pass.

This was part of a wider scheme to give priority to buses along the full length of the A4018

Plans to close Park Street to cars announced by Marvin Rees in a blistering ad appear to be in doubt. The proposal to close the busy city center road to through traffic was the main new policy announced in the Mayor of Bristol’s State of the City Address last year.

This was part of a wider bus prioritization scheme along the length of the A4018, which was the subject of consultation. But it now appears the idea may not go forward after talks with bus companies.

Opposition Green Cllr David Wilcox asked for an update on the Park Street plans at the Bristol City Council members’ forum on Tuesday November 8. A written response on behalf of the mayor said: ‘It is important to be specific – in last year’s state of the city the mayor offered a consultation on the possibility of closing Park Street to private cars.

“The consultation took place as part of a wider review of the A4018 and bus prioritization. This is under review and should be presented to cabinet with a final decision.

“The Park Street element of the consultation received a mixed response, including from traders, and was not seen by bus companies as a major priority. Some sections of the A4018 are more fundamental to bus prioritization.

Lockleaze ward Cllr Wilcox asked when he would share the results of the public consultation on Park Street.

Labor Deputy Mayor Cllr Craig Cheney, who was attending the meeting with Mr Rees, who is in Egypt for the UN Climate Change Conference COP27, said: ‘This will be part of the cabinet papers when it will be forwarded to the cabinet.”

Cllr Wilcox asked: ‘So the Park Street closure is coming to Cabinet?’ Cllr Cheney replied: ‘Well the A4018 consultation is coming to the firm more broadly which includes the Park Street element.

During the State of the City Address in October 2021, Mr Rees said: “We are about to launch a consultation on the introduction of bus prioritization for Wells Road, towards the city centre, on the Downs and the full length of the A4018.

“We will be asking you to comment on proposals to remove parking which is causing congestion on key roads and the closure of Park Street to private cars. This has the potential to reinvent the public realm up to the Triangle and eliminate rat racing from the Downs.

The vintage car trade is seeing a surge in sales thanks to another vintage artifact: Vanilla Ice, North Texas’ own rap superstar turned TV host.

Over the past year, the value of the 1987 Ford Mustang 5.0 has increased nearly 42% over the previous year, according to CarGurus.com; the 1990 model increased 28% in value.

The huge rise in sales and prices of most third-generation Fox-bodied Mustangs, made between 1987 and 1993, can be partially attributed to Dallas, in particular the former hometown rapper.

In 1990, Vanilla Ice’s rap track “Ice Ice Baby” took No. 1 in the United States. Billboard Chart of the 100 hottest recordings. The accompanying music video showed the artist driving his white 1989 Ford Mustang through the streets of Dallas. The image and the song never really left the public consciousness, and today they are all the more visible thanks to TikTok.

A TikTok user named debinthehouse recalled Vanilla Ice’s timeline with the comment, “Browsing Forest Lane with you and hanging out in the parking lot of Burger King in the 80s.”

Forest Lane was a popular weekend spot for teenagers, where a 3-mile cruising strip stretched from Webb Chapel to Inwood. A Magazine D An article published in the mid-1990s described the scene as follows: “Many were looking for a drag race; others were just looking.”

Then, in 1991, just as Vanilla Ice released their single “Rollin’ in my 5.0,” paying yet another homage to their Fox Mustang body, the city of Dallas added signs prohibiting U-turns on the strip. Forest Lane. And cops stopped cruisers left and right, according to the article: “In early 1992, teenagers stopped coming to Forest altogether…”

Prior to winning the American Music Awards, Ice was known to former peers of the now defunct City Lights nightclub in South Dallas and Mustang fanatics as Robert Matthew Van Winkle, his middle name. birth. The rapper doesn’t forget his “Cool as Ice” heyday and often brings up memories of the late 1980s and early 1990s cruising in his Ford Mustang around The Big D.

Last year, Van Winkle posted an old photo of himself and his Mustang with the downtown Dallas skyline in the background. “Here is the OG 5.0. [I] I still have it,” he captioned the photo, which was taken before ‘Ice Ice Baby’ became big. He continued, “Never thought this car would be such a[n] iconic 90s memento. I collect cars now, and none of them have more emotion than this car because of the 90s [were] greatest decade ever. The Fox Mustang body has become a[n] icon because of the times. Brings back all the memories, block[k] parties, drag races, keg parties, And the girls. LOL We didn’t need a fortnight [sic]. We got out of the house and had fun.”

“I remember seeing you rolling around the streets of Carrollton with this,” a woman named Sonja shared on Facebook. “Good memories, that’s for sure.”

Van Winkle attended RL Turner High School in Carrollton. His 225-horsepower white Mustang, with a white hood, white Fittipaldi star wheels and white interior parts, was hard to miss cruising around Dallas neighborhoods in the early ’90s. Its dual mufflers emitted a deep throaty growl when Van Winkle begged the throttle and went off – and the stereo “With the bass on, the [Cerwin] Vegas is pumping,” as he rapped in “Ice Ice Baby.”

Dallas residents could hear the bassline “Ice Ice Baby,” from the classic Queen and David Bowie collaboration “Under Pressure,” just blocks away. And by the time people would do a double take, the rapper’s Mustang with “GO ICE” license plates had already passed them.

It looked like a lot of the “Ice Ice Baby” music video was shot in Miami, but according to a Center track article, the clips were shot here in Dallas, specifically in Deep Ellum: “Take, for example, the scene where he’s rolling in his 5.0 past all those kids dancing and hanging out on Crowdus Street near the current home of the Curtain Club …you can clearly see him and the dancers he recruited from Dallas’ City Lights club crashing on a Dallas rooftop with the Bank of America building clearly lit in neon green behind them.

Under Mustang 5.0’s posts on Vanilla Ice’s social media accounts, fans across the United States commented that the footage of Vanilla rapping, “Rollin’ in my 5.0 / With my ragtop down so my hair can blow” in the “Ice Ice Baby” video had inspired them to buy a Generation 3 Fox-bodied Mustang.

Chris Savard, now 41, lives in Austin and remembers Vanilla Ice on radio and in music videos at the time.

“I think Vanilla Ice, or Rob, will have a lasting impression on the Fox Mustang body, and that’s the nostalgia,” he told the Observer.

As an avid collector of Fox-bodied Mustangs, Savard and hundreds of Mustang owners gathered at the Late Model Restoration Cruise-In at Texas Motor Speedway on October 22.

@vanillaiceme Word to the 5.0, yes indeed I still have my original mustang 5.0 from the ice ice baby video. Check it out. #5.0 #VanillaIce #IceIceBaby #Mustang #RollinInMy5.0 #LegendaryCar ♬ original sound – Vanilla Ice

“A lot of parents remember now,” says Savard. “These Mustangs are becoming a classic; it’s becoming more of a household name. For example, there was a group of five kids with their skateboards, I heard one kid say, ‘Look the fox body” – nobody called these Fox. bodies back then. They were called 5.0.

The Mustang folks can thank Van Winkle for introducing the Fox Mustang body to the next generation. In June, he posted a video of his restored car on TikTok, where the highest percentage of users are between 10 and 19 years old. The video – which he captioned, “Word to the 5.0, yes indeed, I still have my original mustang 5.0 from the ice ice baby video. Look at her. #5.0 #VanillaIce #IceIceBaby #Mustang #RollinInMy5.0 #LegendaryCar” – garnered nearly 900,000 likes and has been shared over 33,000 times.

Savard got a glimpse of it after it went viral.

“Style-wise, when you see Vanilla Ice today, maybe he doesn’t have the same hair, but he’s very true to that 1990s era, and the car speaks [of] that, said Savard. I like the red and white interior. It has this cupid logo that looks like an angel, and it’s very well personalized. The dashboard is all Alcantara suede with the diamond stitched patterned seats.

Savard is familiar with Fox-bodied Mustangs, customizing and restoring them for a living. His YouTube channel, The Infamous Project, shows off his various Fox Mustang body builds. He even interviewed Van Winkle on camera about his Mustang.

“That steering wheel could still be the stock one to this day, because in the ‘Rolling in my 5.0’ music video, the steering wheel is all white,” Savard said of Ice’s Mustang. “Maybe the horn section has been updated. It also has a polished Vortech supercharger on a small, pushrod V8 engine. It has added some tweaks and niceties.”

Jenn Highley, the event organizer of Foxtober Fest, an annual auto show in Concord, North Carolina, that focuses on Fox-bodied Mustangs, said the three-day festival that kicked off October 12 has attracted 726 Fox-bodied Mustangs, many from Texas.

“It’s the oldest generation of Foxes by 15 years, and no generation of Mustang has lasted that long,” she says. “And now they’re old enough to be cool, and the 80s and 90s are coming back so people who happen to own a Fox and you’re now like, ‘How much will you give me for that?’

The Fox Mustang body was made between 1979 and 1993. The first look, 1979–1982, had the recessed headlights, and the 1983–1986 style had flush headlights. The last look was the Vanilla Ice model, which ran from 1987 to 1993 and was the most aerodynamic.

Highley says that at his show, which Savard also attended, there were a few “Ice Ice Baby” influenced Mustangs even sporting replica “GO ICE” vanity plates, and owners playing Vanilla’s. To extreme cassettes.

“It’s mostly guys in their 40s, 50s,” Highley says. “So now their kids have grown up, either in college or out of college or about to go to college, and the kids don’t need a lot of maintenance. So they’re still working, and now that their kids are gone, and they’re like, ‘I’ve got all this money to buy a Vanilla Ice car.'”

On a quick search online, you can find a 1989 Ford Mustang GT, the same year Van Winkle sold for $28,500 at Wylie. A 1988 Mustang in Burleson sells for nearly $16,000. There were hardly any left for sale, especially the 1991 model which has gone up in value since last year.

Highley says the price increase follows the manufacturing pattern. In 1990, she says, 128,189 Ford Mustangs were made and in 1991 only 98,737 were produced. The following year, that number fell to 79,280.

With the latest Mustangs rarer than those from previous production years and growing demand thanks to Vanilla Ice, the price increase only makes sense. Now if only he could bring back the gas prices of the 90s.

BOSTON — Matthew Dezii lives in Brighton and cycles around the city almost five days a week. “Having protected bike lanes is good for everyone,” Dezii said. “I’ve had a lot of close calls. I’ve been hit by drivers.”

Whenever the 29-year-old is on his bike, his camera is also on, capturing videos of congested cycle paths. He recently captured video of blocked Cambridge Street, but he says it’s happening across the city.

Dezii says that when cyclists are pushed out of their lanes, it’s dangerous not only for them, but also for drivers. This forces them to go to parts of the road or sidewalk where they are not supposed to be.

“What we’re starting to do is bring the bike path closer to the sidewalk,” said Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Boston Street Chief.

Franklin-Hodge says bike lanes will start to look different for drivers and it will take them some time to adapt.

“It takes them a second to notice that the signs are different or the pavement markings are different,” Franklin-Hodge said.

On Friday on Cambridge Street, dump trucks used for construction at City Hall were parked in the cycle lanes. This forced cyclists onto the sidewalk with pedestrians.

Bumps in the road for a changing system. Dezii has a message for those who might resist it.

“Honestly, if I’m not driving around town, I’m one car less than they have to fight for space with downtown. I’m on my bike, I’m out of their way,” Dezii said. .

The Bugatti Veyron represents supercharging technology in its most extreme form. Powered by an 8-liter, four-turbocharged W-16 engine with aluminum block and cylinder heads and port fuel injection, the hypercar produces 1,001 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and peak torque of 922 lb- foot at 2,200 revolutions per minute. It’s one of the fastest cars ever, the first to accelerate to 60mph in just 2.5 seconds, and it’s capable of topping 250mph on the top end (via Car and Driver).

The Bugatti Veyron looks like a car from a futuristic movie, costs nearly $2 million, and has all the cutting edge tech features available. However, the outstanding performance sets the car apart from other hypercars in its class.

John Phillips of Car and Driver best described the exhilarating feeling of accelerating the Veyron: “From rest the car starts civilly, gentlemanly, with almost no wheel spin or tire squeal. It accelerates briskly for about a second until the turbos figure out you’re serious.. Then there’s a deafening roar, the nose rises and the car feels like it’s making a serious attempt to hang on in the air.”

As impressive as the Veyron is, its sibling the Chiron, equipped with an 8.0-liter 16-cylinder engine using four turbochargers developing 1,500 horsepower, accelerates to 60 mph in 0.2 seconds less and reaches a top speed of 261 mph.