9 Prepare Nissan New Model for India

Nissan Motor Co. or NMC will release nine new models in stages until 2012 to work optimally in the Indian car market. Five models are produced locally, while four others were imported intact or CBU.

Now, Nissan has sold two models, the X-Trail (SUV) and the Teana sedan, which is CBU products. For the first local products, small cars and the cheapest will be offered in a gasoline engine. Furthermore, diesel variant after three months after launch. So quoted by Dow Jones news agency, Thursday (21/1/2010).

Adding rows of CBU cars, Japanese brands have also introduced a new sports car, 370Z, in India. This product will be sold in two variants transmission, manual dibanderol 5.35 million rupees, and automatic for 5.45 million rupees.

To demonstrate the seriousness, the manufacturer also has took Renault SA to build a new plant in Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu with venture funds 45 billion rupees. Total investment will be carried out gradually over the next seven years. Plant capacity to reach 200,000 units per year.

Components

Kiminobu Tokuyama, Managing Director of Nissan Motor India, said that Nissan will target 85 percent of car parts cheap supplies of hers came from local companies. Until now, manufacturers have been holding claim 97 automotive components manufacturers in India.

In addition, the NMC will supply auto components worth 10 million U.S. dollars to Japan, China, and Thailand, starting this year. In fact, Nissan's target value of component exports will jump twice in 2011 and rocketed 400 percent to touch 40 million U.S. dollars in 2012.

Explained, India will become one of the five countries in the world, including Thailand, China, and Mexico, which is also the production base of small and inexpensive cars. This product will be Nissan's mainstay export to 100 countries around the world, including Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Nissan targets will export 110,000 small cars and sedans in 2011 to be 180,000 units in some time later.

In India, cooperation and group Nissan, Renault, will employ 300 engineers to strengthen the research and development center in March next. Thus, the total number of jobs that have been created are available for 1,500 people.