Nissan plans Micra for India

Posted at April 25th, 2008 under Software & web | 5 Comments »  Print This Post  Email This Post

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Nissan is building a plant jointly with its partner Renault at a an investment of over Rs4000 crores. On the new plant you might have heard a lot but here is an interesting news. Nissan plans to offer eight products across all segments in India by 2012. Nissan is finalising vendors for various products which includes hatchbacks, sedans and SUVs. Nissan will introduce one small car and one mid-sized sedan model in India within the next few years.“By 2012, we plan to have eight products in the market, of which a few will be imported. We will also export cars manufactured here in completely built-up form as per current plans,” Neeraj Garg, director, marketing and sales, Nissan Motor India, said. The small car which will be based on popular nissan’s hatchback Micra will be positioned in the A2 segment which is currently dominated Alto,Zen Estilo and Wagon R. Nissan Indian Micra will be powered by 3 cyclinder, 1.2L petrol engine to avail the small car tax benefit. Also on Nissan’s Indian game plan is a sedan powered by 1.5L engine. Though the sedan will be designed in Japan the sedan will include Indian views as well. Nissan Motor India currently selling X-Trail SUV and Teana sedan.