The re-styled Nissan Murano also bowed at the auto show this week, though it was slightly overshadowed by its world eating cousin. The new Murano has styling that we're told "imparts a "modern art" feel, but still maintains its "Murano-ness." Are they saying it like that's a good thing? The new Murano gets its motivation…

Tired of that turnip-topped Nissan Murano? Street spies have good news, at least if you consider an SUV covered in electrical tape good news. It's the next-generation Nissan Murano, and it's out testing in the adder-infested lands of Southern Europe. Those who think they know say the next Murano is coming out later…

Nissan's sent along pics of the juiced-up Murano concept it plans to unveil this week at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. The company tuner was created largely by the lab-coated tweakers at Nissan's Bedfordshire-based European Technical Centre, who've added a Garrett-built turbocharger to the standard…

Nissan's heightening its presence on the royal grounds of Britain's (jolly) Goodwood Festival of Speed this year, unveiling a couple of juiced-up concept cars based on two current models. The Murano GT-C (pictured) will be powered by a 350 ps (345 hp) twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 — worked up by the company's tech…

Get Leonardo DaVinci on the horn, he may be in for some royalty cash. Edmunds Inside Line is reporting on Nissan's move to make continuously variable transmissions (CVTs) — a design for which showed up in ol' Lenny's notebooks — the norm on many of its models. The company plans to produce upward of 1 million CVTs per…

Nissan has issued a recall of its adult- contemporary SUV, the Murano, due to a possible alternator defect. Approximately 140,000 Muranos from model-years 2003-2005 in the US and Canada are affected by the callback. According to the NHTSA, a wire could break inside the alternator, preventing the battery from charging…