DeltaWing has released a new rendering of its planned modular road car, the DeltaWing GT.The car is intended to be built as a platform that can be adapted to either a two-seater GT or four-seater family car that can accept multiple powertrains including small, light internal combustion engines, hybrids, and...

Nissan has axed its troubled FIA World Endurance LMP1 Program. The Japanese manufacturer alerted employees via e-mail Tuesday morning the Indianapolis-based front-engine GT-R LM NISMO P1 hybrid program has been shuttered. Most employees were on holiday at the time, and according to one team source, those attempting to enter the...

The Formula E battery designed by Williams Advanced Engineering has received a technical award.Williams' battery, which is designed to provide 200kWh of energy and run at a peak power of 200kW, has been awarded the Royal Automobile Club's Simms Medal. It was earned in recognition of the battery's technology and...

The factory Nissan GT-R LM NISMO World Endurance Championship P1 program will not return to race in 2015."We are committed to competing at the highest level and we are not happy when we are not winning," said NISMO President Shoichi Miyatani. "Let's not forget that while we have been pushing...

Nissan has admitted that its front-wheel-drive GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 contender raced in last weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours without its hybrid system engaged.Darren Cox, the Japanese manufacturer's global motorsport boss, made the admission in the wake of a race in which the best Nissan lapped 18 seconds off the...

Nissan is focusing on endurance testing as it resumes running its GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 prototype today ahead of its race debut in the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.The GT-R LM will run for four days on the Chevrolet test track at Bowling Green, Ky., this week and the...

It's just as well a picture paints a thousand words, because the Nissan LM GT-R NISMO rendered us speechless when we first saw under the skin. Designer Ben Bowlby has again ignored convention, but not in the slightly unhinged, Mad Hatter way you might expect from some radical free thinkers....

Nissan's brand-new front-engine GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 design reminded many sports car fans of the front-engine Panoz "Batmobiles" that first appeared in the late 1990s, but if you're looking for the first modern prototype featuring a front-engine layout and carbon fiber construction, the Mustang GTP from 1983 is where the...

Nissan's radical GT-R LM NISMO has been described as both "exciting" and "brave" by its opposition in this year's World Endurance Championship.The technical bosses of the Audi, Porsche and Toyota LMP1 programmes have all now expressed an opinion on the front-engined, front-wheel-drive Nissan. "We were excited to see three very...

The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is the ultimate Nissan GT-R, the purest expression of innovation that excites. Competing in LM P1, the premier class of world sports car racing, Nissan’s Le Mans car is like no other car before it. A truly global effort, the GT-R has been created by...