NISSAN dealers in Europe sold more than 230,000 cars so far this year – a 35 per cent year-on-year leap in European sales and a record market share for April.
Between January and April, Nissan dealers registered a total of 235,543 cars – an increase of more than 61,000 units versus 2010.
The launch of the new Micra and the continuing success of the UK-built Qashqai and Juke models helped these impresive figures. The Juke, for instance, has sold 36,500 units so far in 2011, and nearly 60,000 since its September-launch.
This performance has seen Nissan improve its share of the overall European market over the same period to 3.8 per cent (0.9 per cent up on last year).
April accounted for 53,840 sales, more than 20 per cent up on 2010, securing a monthly market share of 3.5 per cent.
Bernard Loire, Vice President Sales Operations Europe, said: ‘Nissan’s excellent start to 2011 is continuing, with April sales nearly 9,500 units above 2010, setting an all-time record market share for the month.
‘All of our major European markets have shown an impressive year-on-year improvement in the January – April period, including Russia, UK and Spain where Nissan is now the top-selling Japanese brand.’