NEWS

NISSAN has revealed Juke prices will start at £12,795 when order books open at dealers next month. The supermini crossover will hit UK roads in September. Such a headline-grabbing price means Nissan car dealers are already expecting ample interest in the stylish new car. it is hoped the baby brother to the hit Qashqai will [...]

NISSAN has announced its LEAF electric car will cost £23,350 when it goes on sale here in February 2011. The headline-grabbing price confirms Nissan’s aim to make it a mainstream offer. ‘There is not a premium for EVs,’ said Nissan’s Simon Thomas. It is way lower than the Hyundai i-MiEV (around £10k less), and comes [...]

HARTWELL has taken on 3 new managers in an effort to drive sales at its new Nissan and Citroen dealerships. The group have also announced a new customer-focused business strategy at the Scunthorpe car dealers. This is aimed at reintroducing the Nissan and Citroen brand, which have been without representation in the area since 2006. [...]

DAIMLER is to team up with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to help the car brands save big in the future. A plan to team up in developing future platforms and engines has just been announced. This will see the future Smart range share underpinnings with the next Renault Twingo, and both the Smart and Twingo budget-end [...]

NISSAN is offering a minimum £2k trade-in deal against any new British-built car as scrappage ends. The new trade-in deal sees eligibility extended to cars 7 years or older – that’s motors registered on or before 31 August 2003. As ever, the deal requires cars to have a valid MOT, and also have been owned [...]

NISSAN will be targeting young male buyers with its new Juke crossover, Car Dealer has been told. The manufacturer’s UK managing director Paul Willcox gave Car Dealer an exclusive video interview about the new car and what the marque hopes it will achieve. He told us that crossovers will be responsible for between 45-55,000 sales [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

AS the world’s press gathered for the unveiling of Nissan’s new electric Leaf model, the car firm’s executives in territories around the world were still trying to work out how its dealers would make money out of the car. In fact, even now, the car manufacturer is devising a plan for its UK dealer network to [...]

NISSAN will launch an all-new crossover model in the autumn, when the UK-built Juke hits new car markets. Apart from this teaser, we can’t see any images of it yet – they’ll be shown on 10 February in a global unveil. However, the firm has confirmed the Juke name for the new car, which will [...]

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 [...]

NISSAN pulled the plug on selling its new Cube at only select dealers because of huge demand. Initially the marque planned to sell the unique Cube city car only at specialised dealers – like its GT-R supercar – but feedback from its network saw the manufacturer change its mind. Mark Kinnard, category manager for city [...]