NEWS

NISSAN has announced news Car Dealer Magazine beat the rest to - the LEAF electric car is to be built here in the UK!
Confirmation will be made today at a special press briefing in London by Lord Mandelson.
Sunderland will now become Europe’s largest electric car production plant, with cars rolling off the lines from early [...]

NISSAN UK boss Paul Willcox is confident about the market in 2010, despite the end of scrappage.
The managing director spoke to Car Dealer at the launch of the new Qashqai and was one of the most upbeat chiefs we’ve spoken to so far this year.
He predicts total registrations will be around 1.8m, down on last [...]

CAR DEALER Magazine believes Nissan’s new electric car, the LEAF, is almost certain to be built in the UK.
In an interview with Car Dealer Magazine on Tuesday, Nissan UK managing director Paul Willcox said a decision on where the car was to be built was imminent.
‘The manufacturing location is still yet to be decided,’ he [...]

NISSAN used the recent Geneva Motor Show to honour its top car dealers in a special ceremony.
Award winners from the cream of Nissan’s UK car dealer network were given prizes in 10 categories.
Nissan UK MD Paul Willcox performed the honours in handing over the awards. ‘The performance of many of our network partners has been [...]

HARRATTS Nissan Sheffield has quadrupled its sales in 2009 and outperformed every other Harratts dealer.
The dealer, which opened in January 2008, recorded a massive 427 percent rise in sales for 2009.
Impressive stuff, said the firm’s directors, given how the UK car industry has contracted by 6 percent in the same period.
Shaun Harratt, MD of [...]

NISSAN is making the next Micra a genuine world car, building it in 4 plants and selling it in 160 countries.
This is why the replacement for the current-shape Micra has not set any new design standards.
Nissan is instead seeking dependability, low running costs and cost-effective manufacture for the new Micra. This will keep prices [...]

WE’RE a little excited about the new Nissan Juke - it looks like our sort of car!
The SUV will be at Geneva next week when we’ll get to hear more details about it, but for now enjoy this video of the car’s unveiling to the press a week or so ago.
We can’t wait to [...]

NISSAN will launch its all new supermini Micra replacement at the Geneva Motor Show next month.

The firm has confirmed the covers will be pulled off the new ‘global compact car’ at the show.
Designed to be sold across the globe, the all-new car has been designed to offer maximum value for money. Production in Asia will [...]

NISSAN has revealed the new car it hopes will shake up the small car sector – the British-built Juke.
The firm intends to continue big Qashqai success by taking the concept down a size.
Following the crossover theme, it is part-SUV, part conventional hatchback and part sporty roadster. This mash-up will be coming to car dealer showrooms [...]

NISSAN has again claimed the crown of the biggest car producer in the UK thanks to the Sunderland plant.
Last year, it built 338,150 new Nissans – that’s more than a third of the 999,460 cars produced in the UK last year.
It marks the 12th year running that Nissan has been the biggest car producer in [...]