Nissan Motor India on Friday launched compact multipurpose vehicle Datsun Go+ in New Delhi, with prices starting at Rs 3.79 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
Nissan Motor Company, Japan's third-largest auto maker, has decided to cut its small car sourcing target from India's biggest car company Maruti Suzuki by 80 per cent in view of the severe downturn in Europe's automobile market.
Japanese car major Nissan on Tuesday said will hike the prices of its vehicles, including hatchback Micra and sports utility vehicle Terrano in India, by up to 4 per cent from next month in order to offset the impact of rupee depreciation and escalating input costs.
"We are expecting almost doubling our sales in this financial year. We are very well on track with Micra, Sunny and Evalia. Evalia will generate a very new type of customers..", Nissan Motor India Managing Director and CEO Takayuki Ishida said.
Carmakers usually come up with such year-end announcements.
As the production of Micra, the first car from Nissan-Renault, starts at the plant by the end of May, Kiminobu Tokuyama, managing director and chief executive of Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd, talks to rediff.com about the company's strategy for India, the recession and the auto sector in general.
The new Micra looks stunning compared to the earlier versions. The front and the rear views are appealing and the colours offered by Nissan are also very captivating.
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Japanese auto major Nissan unveiled its compact car redi-GO under the Datsun brand that will hit markets in June.
A member of the audience participates as Sumo wrestlers perform during the Nissan Konnichiwa Japan 2022 event in New Delhi.
The wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, Nissan Motor India, will start selling the car from July, for which bookings will open from Tuesday.
Production of this model will commence in May 2010 in India.
The first major consignment of 3,886 Micra cars left the Ennore Port for European markets on Tuesday, Nissan Motor India said.
Renault and Nissan's decision to launch their own compact cars is independent of a tie-up with Pune-based motorcycle maker Bajaj Auto to develop a low-cost car that is expected to debut in 2011. A formal joint venture agreement is yet to be signed among the partners, though work on the small car is progressing at a slower pace.
The company has a joint manufacturing facility at Oragadam set up with an investment of Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion).
This new avatar comes with a completely new 2.0 litre petrol engine under its hood.
Japanese auto major Nissan is recalling around 12,000 units of various models.
This new model will go on sale first in China in January 2011.
Charting out ambitious plans for India, Japanese automaker Nissan on Tuesday said it plans to have as many as nine models by 2012 out of which five will be locally made as it aims to garner around five per cent of the market.
Nissan has several joint ventures in India. The one with Ashok Leyland is for manufacturing light trucks for the domestic, as well as export markets.
The price increase is marginal and the company is confident that the customers will appreciate its efforts to offer globally renowned products at affordable prices.
Nissan Micra is an Indian A2 hatchback with a difference.
The Renault-Nissan alliance aims to have a 10 per cent share in the Indian passenger vehicles market
The company on Thursday introduced its luxury sedan Teana.
The new global Sedan, 'which is the second product after the launch of Micra from Nissan stable', would be displayed at the eighth China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition, scheduled to be held in December, the company said.
The Renault-Nissan alliance currently employs around 8,000 workers at its Chennai plant
Nissan also has a car-manufacturing tie-up with its global alliance partner Renault.
The Chennai plant has been co-developed by Renault and Nissan at an investment of Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) with an annual capacity of 400,000 units.
There is another common trend among these three players - they are all registering a volume decline in a market that is expanding at over 8 per cent
"Nissan is here to fulfil the diverse motoring needs of Indian customers. The car enables discerning performance car enthusiasts in the country to live fast with its breath-taking performance, cutting-edge technology and seductive design and at a very attractive price," Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd's managing director and chief executive officer, Kiminobu Tokuyama, said at the launch.
According to industry sources, Nissan will roll-out the latest generation Micra from the plant in May for the Indian market.
As the company gears up for selling its made-in-India car Micra by July this year, the auto major has started an initiative to tap B-school students from Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai for brand promotion activities.
Nissan, which has entered into a tripartite joint venture with Renault and Mahindra and Mahindra for setting up a plant in Chennai, is almost certain to have 25 per cent stake in the venture, while it plans to launch premium sedan Teana in India.
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Car sales are experiencing a challenging phase with around Rs 60,000 crore worth of inventory lying unsold with dealers.
Nissan currently imports X-Trail and 370Z coupe as completely built unit.
Nissan Evalia came in with a starting price of Rs 849,000.
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