Active starts at Rs 350,000 and the other at Rs 479,000.
CEO Carlos Ghosn hopes the Go, which has been primed for the middle class, will help Nissan achieve the goal of capturing 10 per cent of the Indian market by 2016.
"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.
The company is far behind its aggressive Japanese competitors, selling only 4,000 vehicles annually.
Announcing their first product carrying Ashok Leyland's badge under the joint venture -- the 'Ashok Leyland DOST' -- in Chennai on Tuesday, Hinduja Automotive chairman and Nissan Ashok Leyland Powertrain Ltd chairman V Sumantran said another product from Nissan's stable would be launched next year.
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Production of this model will commence in May 2010 in India.
Continuing slide in demand for new cars in Europe has made Maruti Suzuki edgy about business, but the automobile major is still looking forward to bagging export order for hatchbacks from Nissan this year.
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As part of this exercise, the company has decided to recall over 9,600 units of its small car Micra, which were produced in India in 2011 and sold in Europe, the official added.
Nissan Motor Company may have missed the boom in small cars in India. But the third-biggest Japanese car maker is confident of shoring up volumes, as it works on several small car projects simultaneously.
It was only an exterior launch, not the actual car, but what he saw left Rediff.com's Rajesh Karkera hugely impressed.
This new model will go on sale first in China in January 2011.
The two partners have said they will produce 150,000 vehicles as part of their phase I plans from their existing facilities and they said, the greenfield facility is "very much" on the cards.
The company would import $10 million (Rs 45 crore) of components in 2010 from Indian vendors. It is set to increase this to $40 million by the end of 2012, a top company official said.
The wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, Nissan Motor India, will start selling the car from July, for which bookings will open from Tuesday.
Affluent Indian automobile buyers may get another brand to choose from. Nissan, Japan's third largest carmaker, is looking at the possibility of launching Infiniti, a luxury brand owned by it, in India. Known for its luxurious features and power-packed driving characteristics, Infiniti is a premium brand which competes with benchmark ones globally such as Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Audi and Accura.
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 new diesel engine powered Nissan Micra will get the same motor that powers Mahindra Logan. The 1.5-litre DCI motor is capable of generating top power of 63bhp and 16.3kgm of max torque. The trims for the diesel version of the Micra will be XV and XV Premium.
The company's wholly-owned subsidiary -- Nissan Motor India Private Ltd -- had launched the Micra in July and priced the car between Rs 398,000 and Rs 529,000 (ex-showroom, Delhi).
"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.
Japanese auto maker Nissan on Wednesday said it will source auto components worth $40 million (around Rs 185 crore) from India by 2012.
Nissan Micra is an Indian A2 hatchback with a difference.
Nissan Motor Company on Friday said it has appointed Akira Sakurai as the managing director and CEO of Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd (RNAIPL) and has made a few more changes in the management to establish itself as one of the major players in the country.
Japanese auto major Nissan Motor Co plans to launch a $3,000 car (about Rs 134,000) in 2012 in India to challenge Tata Nano, the world's cheapest passenger car.
It will launch nine models in the next two years.
The $14-billion bailout package for the troubled United States auto industry has collapsed in the Senate amid dispute over the wages paid to workers of the troubled manufacturing giants, according to a media report.
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.
The manufacturing facility is being set up at Oragadam, near this city. The company has planned to set up 55 dealerships by 2012. So far, the company has appointed 23 and plans to add seven more by the end of this financial year.
Nissan Motor India is planning to launch its sports car 370Z in India by January 2010. The company has drawn up an aggressive plan for India which will see a business model comprising five locally-made cars and four imported models by 2012.
Chennai and Ennore ports are set to become hub for car exports from South India. After Hyundai, the two ports have started attracting global manufacturers like Renault SA, Nissan, and Ford.
A-Star, Suzuki's new world car that will be made only by its Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India, will have four different names in markets across the world, which will indicate the role it is expected to play in the Japanese car maker's stable as well as of compatriot Nissan Motor.
Japanese auto major, Nissan, which is setting up a Rs 4,500-crore (RS 45 billion) car-manufacturing facility with Renault in Chennai, said that the project is on schedule and that its first car would roll-out before summer 2010.
If you want to be serious in India, you must not cross $3,000 in product cost.
"Nissan will compete in the entry-car market with a dedicated new A platform that will be used for at least three models, including the next generation of Micra, and will be built in five Leading Competitive Countries (LCCs)," the company said. The company said production sites for the new family of compact cars would include the new plant in Chennai being constructed by the Renault-Nissan Alliance.
Decision comes weeks after the company pulls out of a joint venture with Renault and Nissan for a facility there. Commercial production at Chakan is expected to start in two years, about the same time Renault and Nissan will launch production at the Chennai unit. Pawan Goenka, president (automotive sector), M&M, told Business Standard that the company is committed to invest in the south, where a new plant will be set up near Chennai.
Carlos Ghosn, the iconic CEO of Nissan Motors and Renault, is on a whistle-stop visit to India on Monday to finalise a joint venture and small-car blue-print with India's second-largest two-wheeler maker Bajaj Auto. Renault, Nissan and M&M also have a three-way equity tie-up to make passenger vehicles in Chennai, for which the facility is yet to be built.
Months after Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) exited a joint venture with Renault and Nissan Motor, the French and Japanese auto firms have got their car project back on the road, signing an MoU today with the Tamil Nadu government for a greenfield facility near Chennai.
Suzuki Motors Corp, the parent company of Maruti Udyog, announced on Friday a manufacturing collaboration with Nissan Motor Co and said they will begin joint production in India.
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