Nissan Insider

THE Qashqai is still the UK’s top crossover choice, according to the latest registration figures published by the SMMT. Nearly 8,500 units of the Sunderland-built crossover were registered in the crucial plate-change month of March – a result which won the Qashqai sixth place in the March bestsellers list, just behind the Vauxhall Astra and [...]

THE Car Dealer Power survey is back – and it’s bigger and better than ever! The survey which lets you tell it like it is returns – and to twist your arm to fill it in, the team at Car Dealer magazine have got some cracking bribes. Now in its fourth year, Car Dealer Power [...]

NISSAN has started January exactly the way it means to go on with two of its models recording strong sales. The British-built duo Qashqai and Juke both finished the month in a positive way by securing two strong spots in the SMMT’s January best-sellers list. Nissan dealers registered an impressive 4,280 Qashqais in January – [...]

THE future’s very bright for Nissan but there are ‘growing pains’ ahead. That’s the message from Managing Director Jim Wright, after the company announced its best-ever UK sales figures. Just days after publishing record-breaking stats that saw new car sales rise sharply to 105,834 and the company’s share of the new car market hit 5.2 [...]

NISSAN has won the inaugural 2013 Business Car award for Crossover of the Year. Built at Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, the Qashqai was recognised in a sector it pioneered, earning acclaim from Business Car for ‘its distinctive looks’ and ‘a drive that surpasses expectations’. Further praise was lavished on Nissan for keeping the Qashqai fresh [...]

TODAY, Nissan Insider chats to the company’s new UK marketing director, Guillaume Masurel. Masurel joins from Japan where he was most recently global chief marketing manager for large cars and performance cars. He has also held a number of roles at Nissan Europe including chief marketing manager for Qashqai, Juke and medium cars, and strategy [...]

IT’S official – 2012 was a record year for Nissan, with 105,834 cars sold, giving Nissan a market share of 5.2 per cent. Total car sales were up 9.9 per cent from 2011’s performance of 96,269 units. Including LCVs, Nissan sold 115,970 vehicles in the UK, up 8.3 percent from 107,123 in 2011. And that [...]

THE strong performance of Nissan’s British-built models with company car drivers has seen fleet sales increase by nine per cent in the first 10 months of 2012. Up until the end of October, Nissan sold 43,918 cars taking a five per cent share of the UK fleet market. The Qashqai is Nissan’s best fleet seller [...]