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While news of the March 11^th earthquake and tsunami may seem like a memory pushed into the shadows by more recent stories, the recovery effort in Japan is still a current event. It will take months and months before things begin to resume some level of normalcy. One automaker is already taking precautionary measures to guard its employees, products and buildings from potential future earthquake damage: Japan's second-largest automaker, Nissan.

Nissan is planning to invest a total of 3 billion yen ($37 million) to reinforce the foundation of its most severely damaged domestic factory. It will also fortify…

Cars available for under $10,000 are going the way of dinosaurs. You don't even have to have been on a car lot recently to know that.  There are however, an elusive few that have managed to survive the double-edged blow of inflating costs of living and the depreciating dollar. The Nissan Versa, for example, is the perfect penny-pinching option for drivers who don't require extraneous luxury.

While it's more bare-bones than…