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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 [...]

ANDY PALMER, Executive Vice President of Nissan Motor Company Limited, will provide the keynote speech at the fifth annual summit of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Now firmly established as a must-attend event in the automotive calendar, this year’s International Automotive Summit will be held at Canary Wharf on June 13. Mr Palmer [...]

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 – [...]

UK car manufacturing continues to rise, the latest figures from the SMMT reveal. Automotive plants in the UK – among them, Nissan’s plant in Sunderland – manufactured 141,146 cars in May, the month’s highest output since 2004. Car manufacturing posted a 42.2 per cent hike, with year-to-date volumes were up 17.3 per cent CV output subdued [...]

NEW car registrations rose 7.9 per cent in May to 162,288 units, the latest figures from the SMMT reveal. Nissan’s Qashqai was eighth in the table, with 3,179 units sold, and seventh in the year-to-date table, with 18,660 sales. Top of the May table was Vauxhall’s Corsa (8,413) and the leader over the first five [...]

NISSAN dealers sold more than 3,000 Qashqais in May – a result which has pushed the SUV up the sales charts, the latest SMMT figures reveal. 3,083 Qashqais were registered in the month confirming its place in May’s top ten best-sellers. The SUV now lies in an impressive ninth place in May’s best-sellers list. May’s [...]

UK car production was up by almost 15 per cent in March, the latest automotive production figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reveal Total car output rose by 14.8 per cent in March 2011 and was up 13.0 per cent over quarter one. Engine production in the UK also increased by 6.5 per cent [...]

MARCH proved to be a strong month for Nissan dealers, the SMMT’s latest registration figures out today reveal. Nissan dealers sold just shy of 17,000 cars in March – up 14.69 per cent on March 2010 – with year-to-date figures showing that 25,000 Nissans have found homes so far in 2011. Nissan’s market share in [...]