Nissan,the Japanese auto major plans to introduce two new vehicles in India by 2012. The Managing Director and CEO of Nissan Motor India,Kiminobu Tokuyama reported,”The sedan will be built on the same platform on which the Micra is built. It will be launched first in China. It will be manufactured in our Chennai plant for Indian market. We will launch the vehicle in 2011″.He also said there has been no impact on the Indian manufacturing process though there could be some affect on European markets due to the Earthquake and Tsunami occurred in Japan.
According to him,a global sedan will be in market this year and another vehicle, which is expected to compete with Toyota’s Innova, will be launched in 2012 and the company expects to export 1.1 lakh units of Micra to Europe, Africa and West Asia. He added,”We started exports in October last and we have so far exported 55,000 units to Europe Africa and Middle East (West Asia). We expect to export 1.1 lakh units by October this year”.