Nissan Sunny sedan has Africa and West Asia on its radar

Observing the demand for the mid-sized sedans in the regions of Africa and West Asia, Nissan Motors India is looking to export Nissan Sunny to the overseas markets. Nissan Sunny was launched in India recently, the sedan is manufactured locally. Nissan Sunny price in India is placed economically in the range of Rs 5.78 – Rs 7.68 lakh including the top variant price. Kiminobu Tokuyama had said that they will be exploring the overseas markets with the mid-sized sedan, though their focus mainly lies at the Indian car market.

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Nissan India is planning to export Nissan Sunny to West Asia from the Indian manufacturing unit in a step to develop India as a supply chain management hub. The sedans from Nissan’s UK and Spanish manufacturing plants are already being placed in the European markets. Nissan Motors is apparently seeing good exports apart from the local sales in India for both Nissan Sunny as well as Nissan Micra. While Nissan Sunny is doing well in India, West Asia and Africa, the Japanese auto major is happy with the exports of Nissan Micra in the European markets touching 1 lakh units in the past 11 months.

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As for the future launches, Nissan India envisages launching an MPV in the likes of Toyota Innova by the next year. However the price of the upcoming SUV is not yet revealed. Apart from that, Nissan is also studying the Indian car market closely for introducing a small car in the price range of Rs 2lakh to Rs 4 lakh. Nissan’s Oragadam plant in Chennai has the capacity to produce 200,000 units a year and intends to increase its dealer network in the country from present 45 to 60 by next year. Nissan India has around 4,700 employees at the Oragadam facility near Chennai, out of which 1,900 employees are from the R&D department. Nissan India has five products in India till date,these are, Nissan Micra, Nissan Sunny, Nissan X-Trail, Nissan Teana, and Nissan 370Z sports car.

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