Nissan is planning for an early launch of the diesel variant of Sunny following the recent launch of Sunny’s petrol variant.This decision by Nissan was made seeing the great demand for diesel cars in India.
Gilles Normand,Corporate Vice-president at Nissan for Africa, Middle East and India informed that they have been talking to their engineers to see if they can pull forward the launch.He said that Nissan will launch the diesel variant before the end of this fiscal year.
After Micra,Sunny is the second car to be locally made in Chennai at Nissan India’s factory.It is a major competitor of Toyota Etios,Mahindra Verito and Maruti Dzire.Nissan aims to sell 40,000 cars in India by this year end.