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LORD Mandelson is certainly working hard for the automotive industry in the UK. Last week he was at Toyota, following an announcement the maker is to build the first European-made hybrids there. Then, it was off to Nissan Sunderland, after confirmation it will begin building electric car batteries there (a move many see as a [...]

NISSAN has said that, without support from the Government, today’s UK jobs boost would have gone abroad. The UK, along with Portugal, are both to produce batteries for Renault-Nissan’s massive electric car plans. ‘The two Governments have offered to extend financial assistance and other support to ensure that Nissan locates the proposed plants within their [...]

NISSAN’S £380m European Investment Bank loan is to create 350 new jobs at the Sunderland factory. The jobs will be to produce batteries for Nissan’s future range of electric cars. This means the very real possibility of producing volume electric cars at the huge UK plant – securing its long-term future. The European loan was [...]

J Edgar & Son has triumphed in the recent glittering Nissan Global Service and Sales Way awards. The dealership has won the title of Best UK Dealership – for the second year running! Jason Edgar, general manager, was naturally delighted. ‘It’s an honour to receive this level of recognition, and especially for the dealership to [...]

NISSAN has pledged to keep its scrappage special offer running for an extra three months, due to demand. Car buyers can swap 8-10 year old cars at Nissan car dealers until September, and receive a £2000 minimum trade in. This is so long as they buy a British built Nissan – a Micra, Note, Qashqai [...]

NISSAN car dealers will help buyers’ scrap dilemmas – by offering the same deals on non-scrap cars, too. The maker has taken the big step of ensuring the saving on ANY Nissan car purchase is always £2000 – regardless of the finance scheme the customer takes out. This means those without a 10 year old [...]

NISSAN car dealer Colliers of Birmingham has won a top British Quality Foundation prize gong. The award, for best business improvement, has been attributed to employing the official Nissan Service Way programme. Renault-Nissan consulting has helped implement this across the UK car dealer network, with over 100 Nissan dealers currently using it – and here, [...]

NISSAN is having to take on yet more workers at its Sunderland plant, to meet spiralling new car demand. The 100 new positions come on top of an additional 150 posts created last month. Temporary the posts may be, but they still prove the big impact the Government’s scrappage scheme is having. Nissan is having [...]

NISSAN has confirmed it’s extending the Government’s 10-year scrappage allowance back by 2 years… … so long as the car is produced in the UK, that is. It means that any new Nissan Micra, Note or Qashqai comes with a £2k allowance for owners of 8 year old cars or older. Key deal will be [...]

SCRAPPAGE has marked its first positive boost for the UK car industry – thanks to Nissan. The Japanese maker is upping production by 14,000 cars at its Sunderland plant – creating 150 extra jobs. Nissan’s making the move to meet an expected increase in demand for the Micra, Note and Qashqai; all models it’s selling [...]

NISSAN will offer a £2000 minimum trade in for cars aged 8 years or older, not just decade-old motors. There is but one proviso – it has to be against a new Nissan produced in the UK. This means the £2k pledge is available on: •    Micra •    Note •    Qashqai •    Qashqai+2 It ensures [...]

NISSAN’S European sales may dip below half a million in 2009, reports news agency Bloomberg News. This may force Japan’s third-largest car maker to rush through the next Micra. Originally due for launch in 2011, the maker may bring this forward – as it says that a lack of small, affordable models is hurting its [...]

GOOLE car dealer Brian Leighton Garages is now supplying brand new SsangYong models to Yorkshire. Family-run BLG already runs Nissan and Renault franchises, and is now to start retailing SsangYong cars and light commercials, too. It’s the ideal fit for the locality, said the Howden car dealer. ‘We have been impressed by SsangYong’s range and [...]

NISSAN’S special High Performance Centres have today delivered their first UK GT-R supercar. The order books opened a year ago: today, at 7.29am, the first buyers collected their cars from the 11 UK centres. Why 7.29am? Because that’s the car’s dazzling Nurburgring hot lap time… More than 1200 people have placed deposits with Nissan’s premium [...]

JAGUAR, Land Rover and Nissan have received crucial funding from the European Investment Bank. The packages are focussed on helping develop green vehicles and technologies. JLR will use the cash to help cut vehicle emissions and Nissan will spend the money at its plants in Sunderland and Spain to build energy efficient cars. JLR secured [...]

NISSAN GB is sanctioning immediate aid for its UK dealer network, in the face of weak trading conditions. The scheme will provide car dealers with operational and financial performance support. Supported by apd Group, the new Business Planning and Quality Department is headed up by Richard Clark. This has been set up because of ‘the [...]

It’s not only used car prices on the up – BCA reports that the van market is enjoying similar gains to the used car market. Values in February rose by nearly £200 – an increase of 6.6 percent. Overall, this means used LCVs today are worth over 12 percent more than they were in December. [...]

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