Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nissan Motors, Datsun, Nissan Motor Manufacturing Ltd, Yokohama F. Marinos, Nismo, Attesa, Nissan Electric Vehicle, List of Nissan Engines, Renault Samsung Motors, Nissan Vvl Engine, Japan Electronic Control System Co., Nissan Group, Nissan Se-R, Nissan Motor India Private Limited, Autech, Clarion, Ebro Trucks, Jatco, Ghandhara Nissan, Hicas, Nissan Engine Museum, Calsonic Kansei, N-Vct, X-Trail Jam, Dongfeng Nissan-Diesel Company, Dongfeng Motor Company, Nissan Outboard Motors, Nissan Marine. Excerpt: ATTESA (acronym for Advanced Total Traction Engineering System for All-Terrain ) is a four-wheel drive used in some automobiles produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan .ATTESA The 'mechanical' ATTESA system was developed for transverse layout vehicles and introduced with the RNU12 Bluebird in the Japanese market, entering production in September 1987. The system ran right throughout the U12 series (RNU12/HNU12) and was fitted to numerous U12 models with differing engine and gearbox combinations. An almost identical system is fitted to the RNN14 GTi-R Pulsar and the HNU13 Bluebird and the HNP10 Primera, finding usage in numerous other nissan models.Quite similar to offerings from other manufacturers, drive passes from the gearbox to a centre viscous limited slip differential , into a transfer case splitting drive to a co-located front differential, and tail shaft connected to the vehicles rear differential .2000+ ATTESA Update In the new system, as with a normal FWD car, the gearbox contains a differential that drives the front wheels. However, an extra shaft from this differential also drives a bevel gear housed in the transfer case that permanently turns the driveshaft (i.e. there is no longer a "centre" differential). Housed in the rear differential is a viscous