Nissan brand was phased out and the Nissan brand was phased in. All cars in 1984 had both the Datsun and Nissan branding on them and in 1985 the Datsun name was completely dropped. In July 2013, Nissan announced the relaunch of Datsun as a brand targeted at emerging markets. Infiniti: Since 1989, Nissan has sold its luxury models under the Infiniti brand. In 2012, Infiniti changed its headquarters to Hong Kong, where it is incorporated as Infiniti Global Limited. Its president is former BMW executive Roland Krueger. From 2014, Infiniti cars are sold in Japan. Nismo: Nissan's in-house tuning shop
Nissan GT-R test conducted by Nissan, shattered its previous Nürburgring record of 7:18 with a new time of 7:08.68, making it the 8th fastest road-legal production vehicle around the track as of April 2018. The GT-R has frequently featured in head to head track comparisons against competing vehicles conducted by the automotive press. "Fifth Gear" tested the GT-R along with the Mitsubishi Evo FQ 400 in their short autototest agility track and their larger test track. The GT-R was a second quicker than the Evo in terms of speed {0-60} but the Evo proved to handle better than the GT-R on the