Nissan Motor Co will soon offer a line-up of nine vehicles in India, include export March/Micra to Europe and build LCV
Nissan Motor Co will soon offer a line-up of nine vehicles in India including five built locally as it aims to catch up with rivals in
the fast-growing market
Nissan’s presence in the Indian market is feeble – just 400 X-Trail suvs and the sedan Teana. but it is scheduled to start producing a new compact car at its first Indian factory in May with production volumes that are expected to surpass Honda Motor Co’s local volumes next year given its plans to turn India into an export base to supply more than 100 countries.
The Chennai factory, co-owned by French partner Renault SA, plans to ship 110,000 units of Nissan’s new global compact car
in 2011, mainly to Europe, expanding that to 180,000 “in the near future”
The new compact car, which will replace the March/Micra subcompact in Europe, will first be available as a hatchback, adding a sedan version next year and another body type later. Diesel models are also in the pipeline.
Further, there will be two local models- LCV (a joint-production with Ashok Leyland) and one with Nissan brand which expect to be the nissan NV 2000 as we show in picture – from the Chennai plant. Apart from these, there will be an ultra low cost car developed by Bajaj to be marketed by Renault and Nissan. The dealer network will be increased to 55 in 2012
To boost sales, Nissan plans to expand its dealer network to 55 by around 2012 from the current seven, Tokuyama said.
Japanese auto maker Nissan today said it will also source auto components worth $ 40 million (around Rs 185 crore) from India by
2012.
“There is a plan for us to utilise our Chennai facility for supplying components to Nissan’s global operations such as in Thailand, China and Japan. By 2012, we are looking at sourcing components worth about 40 million dollars from India,” Nissan Motor India Managing Director and CEO Kiminobu Tokuyama said.
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