Nissan Murano News

General Motors Co. vehicles won eight awards in the annual J.D. Power & Associates survey of initial quality, a marked improvement since the largest American automaker turned itself around after a 2009 bankruptcy.

The next-generation Nissan X-Trail will follow SUV convention. While that used to mean a boxy, upright 4X4 look worn by the current X-Trail and ancient Ford Escape , today's breed of crossovers have more curves than edges, and daylight openings smaller than those on yesterday's sports cars.

Dear Tom and Ray: We do a lot of city driving, but in the summer months we tow a couple of Jet Skis around behind our older Nissan Murano, and it has seemed to do the job just fine.

DEAR TOM AND RAY: We do a lot of city driving, but in the summer months we tow a couple of personal watercrafts around behind our older Nissan Murano, and it has seemed to do the job just fine.

Nissan's Rogue has always been an honest compact crossover, with no attempt at a rough, tough, off-road demeanor.

It's part of a series of events that included January's announcement that Nissan would start making its Murano crossover in Canton in 2014.

Subsidies provided to Nissan by state and local governments in Mississippi will amount to more than $1.3 billion - about 3A1 2 times more than has been previously reported, according to a report by Good Jobs First .