Nissan’s compact car, scheduled for manufacture in five countries
including India, is made available by the company with the production to start in May 2010.
This follows the suit of Ford Motor coming out with its small car Figo to be manufactured in
Chennai. There will be three variants of this model in hatchback and sedan range with one
Multi-purpose Vehicle. All these cars will be simultaneously designed in five units of the
world- one at Oragadam in Chennai, one each in China and Thailand and the remaining two to
be finalised. With this move, Nissan proposes to launch one million vehicles(25% of the
current annual sale), with the Indian plant shipping out 110,000 units from the Indian
platform from 2011 to be further increased to 180000 units to 100 more countries. India will
be made the global sourcing hub for its components. 60% of these components getting into
these three cars will be interchangeable making Nissan as the tough competitor in terms of
components.
Nissan’s compact car, scheduled for manufacture in five countries including India, is made available by the company with the production to start in May 2010. This follows the suit of Ford Motor coming out with its small car Figo to be manufactured in Chennai. There will be three variants of this model in hatchback and sedan range with one Multi-purpose Vehicle.
All these cars will be simultaneously designed in five units of the world- one at Oragadam in Chennai, one each in China and Thailand and the remaining two to be finalised. With this move, Nissan proposes to launch one million vehicles(25% of the current annual sale), with the Indian plant shipping out 110,000 units from the Indian platform from 2011 to be further increased to 180000 units to 100 more countries. India will be made the global sourcing hub for its components. 60% of these components getting into these three cars will be interchangeable making Nissan as the tough competitor in terms of components.
