Revealed: Nissan’s nine new models for India by 2012

Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. has confirmed that they will launch five new vehicles in India before the end of 2012. Kiminobu Tokuyama, Managing Director and CEO, NMIPL, told the media, “Our product launch plan to India is aggressive, as we have planned to line-up nine models by 2012, of which five models will be produced in India and four models will be the imports from Japan’. Alongside the proceedings of these product launches, Nissan’s primary aim still lies in increasing the number of dealerships to 100 at least, by 2013. The Japanese carmaker wants to reach a sales milestone of 1-lakh units per year and hence the aggressive product-launch campaign.

Nissan Micra diesel

The Nissan Micra has gotten off to a flying start! Within a few months of its launch there is already an order backlog of over 2,500 units of the Micra. This has forced Nissan India to increase production of the Micra 1.2-litre petrol from 255-units to 500 units a day at their Chennai plant. But this initial hype is sure to die down and once the new Swift comes out later this year, Nissan will have to think of new strategies to maintain the Micra’s stronghold and even increase it further.

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Helping this cause will be the diesel variant of the Micra. Nissan India had made it clear during the launch of the Micra petrol that the diesel variant was to follow by the end of 2011. The Micra diesel will be powered by a 1.5-litre engine which will essentially be a retuned version of the engine that powers the Mahindra Logan 1.5 dCi. In the real world, the 1.5-litre diesel mill will be good for 23-24 kmpl given the low weight and intelligent engineering behind the V-platform that underpins the current generation Micra. Like the petrol variant, the Micra 1.5-diesel will also be exported to other developing markets in Nissan’s portfolio. We expect the Micra 1.5 diesel to be priced at a premium of Rs. 35,000 over an equivalent petrol variant of the Micra hatchback.

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1 thought on “Revealed: Nissan’s nine new models for India by 2012”

  1. chaitanya vedak

    all i can say is that, cladding or no cladding, this car is awesome looking. whaat lines, whaat curves, whaaat tires. damn. i am drooling my mouth off. 😛

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