Sub-Micra Small Car From Nissan Soon


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Nissan Motors, which unveiled its new sedan for India only yesterday, is planning to launch a new small car for the Indian market. The real volumes in the Indian car market are in the small car segment, and Nissan wants to further strengthen its presence in the category. The new model would most likely be position in the Rs. 2.5-3.5 lakh rupees range and would rival the likes of the Chevy Spark and the Hyundai Santro.

“We’re seriously studying the launch of a small car below the Micra. We see great opportunity in the small car segment,” said Mr Kiminobu Tokuyama, Managing Director and CEO, Nissan Motor India. Internationally, Micra (or March) is the smallest car in the Nissan portfolio. This means that if the company plans a smaller car for the Indian market, it will have to develop it from the scratch. Typically such a grounds-up exercise takes more than a couple of years before a product makes it to the showroom, which means that it would at least be 2013 by the time the new small car sees the light of the day.

The Sunny sedan revealed by the company yesterday will be available at the showrooms by October, and will be exported to West Asian and African countries. It’s notable that Nissan’s operations in India rely heavily on exports currently and form the major part of the business. The company has exported more than 90,000 units of its Micra hatch, while having sold only about 18,000 units of the car domestically.
The company wants to take the domestic sales up to 40,000 annual units by the end of this fiscal by means of new launches and better dealership network. Nissan is also planning to launch an MPV in collaboration with Ashok Leyland. The new MPV will take the fight to the likes of the Mahindra Xylo and Toyota Innova. Source: Motoroids
 
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Re: Nissan planning a sub-Micra small car for India

This is good news but the thing is they have a very weak dealership network , they should look at expanding that first. Micra may not have performed upto desired levels because of this issue.
 
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Re: Nissan planning a sub-Micra small car for India

Guess this would be a great car. Anybody got any idea what it might look like?
 
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Re: Nissan planning a sub-Micra small car for India

They are better to launch a downgraded version of Micra to compete with Etios Liva and Swift
 

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