Nissan sales rocket 17%
January 8th, 2010 by Richard Aucock
NISSAN boosted total year sales in 2009 by an amazing 17 percent with nearly 78,000 new car sales.
The exceptional increase is even better news for the UK, as British-built cars led the sales success.
Nissan reports the Micra, Note and Qashqai ‘all exceeded expectations’ – taking a big proportion of the 338,150 total cars produced at the Sunderland car plant.
In the UK in 2009 Nissan sold:
• 25,776 Qashqais
• 19,173 Micras
• 8176 Notes
Nissan even became the best-selling Japanese brand of all during December 2009, helped by a total of 2759 Qashqai sales. This helped it to 8th place overall in the 2009 new car sales charts.
It gives Nissan a 3.91 percent market share – its highest since 2000.
Nissan’s UK MD Paul Willcox said ‘we are delighted to end 2009 on such a high – and excited about what this means for 2010.
‘Last year was unlike any other with the toughest economic conditions to face the motor industry in living memory, but we have still managed to increase our year on year sales.
‘What’s more, with lots to look forward to in the coming 12 months we have every intention of continuing this success in 2010.’
January 8th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
It’s a pity the lads who work at the factory are treated so poorly. They havent been given a pay rise for over 2 years!!!!!
Damn Disgrace
January 9th, 2010 at 7:42 am
aye but the workers that build them still haven’t got a raise out of it we work our backside off with no reward for it
January 12th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Get real. No-one is a getting a pay rise these days and the Honda workers had to take months of unpaid leave. Working your backside off is a fact of life, we all do it no matter what the business. No one owes you – or me – a job.