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Nissan extends Brit deal

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 [...]

	VIDEO: Nissan LEAF for Sunderland?
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 Juke out of box
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 still top in UK
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 [...]

	Nissan electric car first
NISSAN will, next year, become the first car maker to sell an affordable all-electric rival to the Ford Focus. The LEAF is a five-door hatchback with an electric motor that has a 100-mile range. Good enough, according to Nissan research, for nearly three-quarters of world car buyers’ daily drives. It will go on sale in [...]

		More cheer for Nissan
		NISSAN Sunderland has won a big new engine production contract, securing further jobs at the big plant. A new 2.0-litre engine will be built there from next year, saving 130 jobs and, in time, creating an EXTRA 200 posts. Nissan is to invest nearly £13 million in the new engine production facility – backed by [...]
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		Nissan all-electric Prius
		NISSAN will later this week unveil a bespoke all-new electric car… but is teasing us before then with an insight. The Japanese firm has today revealed more details on its Tiida prototype, which is being used to develop the model due next year. What is it? An all-electric car, with 1.6-litre turbodiesel levels of power [...]
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		Government aid key
		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 [...]
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		Scrappage jobs boost
		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 [...]
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		Nissan speeds up Micra?
		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 [...]
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