Ah, shoot!

Try this link for the North American (Arizona) Nissan Test Center:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=nissan+test,+arizona&sll=36.202174,140.149841&sspn=0.30973,0.727844&ie=UTF8&ei=T6RtSbO7D4fSM-qC4cMH&sig2=LccRCLXFY1RoEWorthM94g&cd=3&cid=32945625,-111989177,15291538013639302926&li=lmd&t=h&ll=32.943933,-111.982698&spn=0.040264,0.090981&z=14

Give me some props! (took me about an hour to sort it all out!)

That's not the new test track in Japan, that's just a picture of the test track in Arizona...as I suspected, the author of this article got lazy and just posted a picture without clarifying, GREAT JOURNALISM!

If you want to look at the track pictured above:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=nissan+test,+arizona&jsv=141e&sll=36.202174,140.149841&sspn=0.30973,0.727844&ie=UTF8&latlng=32945625,-111989177,15291538013639302926&ei=T6RtSbO7D4fSM-qC4cMH&sig2=LccRCLXFY1RoEWorthM94g&cd=3


The new track in Oppama, Japan, looks like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=oppama,+Yokosuka&sll=35.294479,139.676228&sspn=0.004895,0.011373&ie=UTF8&ll=35.326173,139.647303&spn=0.009786,0.022745&t=h&z=16


I recognized this track from a new commercial with the 2008/2009 Nissan Altima - in which they said it was a NORTH AMERICAN test center (the largest one in the US, I believe Nissan has 2, another in MI) - so much for "compact farm fields" in Japan, huh? (that didn't make much sense, Japan is far too mountainous and compact to have all this space for farms like that...)

Shame on the author!