Nissan has grow to be the primary automotive producer to promote ONE MILLION crossover autos within the UK – with greater than 90% constructed on British soil.
Crossovers, which mix SUVs and household hatchback traits, have skilled mass progress over the previous decade, with Nissan manufacturing the Qashqai, Juke and X-Path fashions.
The automotive producer, which operates the UK’s greatest automotive manufacturing facility in Sunderland, reached the a million gross sales determine in simply 14 years.
And a whopping 93% of those UK gross sales are of crossovers which have been constructed within the north east, with the remaining 7% imported from Japan.
That is made up of each generations of Qashqai and Juke, plus the present era X-Path (2014- ).
| NISSAN MODEL | TOTAL UK SALES | % SHARE OF SALES | MANUFACTURING LOCATION |
| Qashqai (2007 – 2014) | 246,993 | 25% | Sunderland, UK |
| Qashqai (2014 – 2020) | 373,014 | 37% | Sunderland, UK |
| Juke (2010 – 2019) | 292,723 | 29% | Sunderland, UK |
| Juke (2019 – Current) | 20,208 | 2% | Sunderland, UK |
| X-Path (2014 – Current) | 67,062 | 7% | Kyushu, Japan |
| TOTAL | 1,000,000 | 100% |
To rejoice the milestone, Nissan wrapped the fashions that contributed to the gross sales milestone in platinum – a nod to the music business the place a platinum report is awarded to artists who obtain a million gross sales of their album or single.
Andrew Humberstone, managing director, Nissan Motor (GB) Ltd. mentioned: “We’re thrilled to have reached this unprecedented gross sales milestone and want to specific honest gratitude to our prospects for placing their belief and loyalty within the high quality of Nissan’s autos.
“Fairly merely, if you’re considering of shopping for a crossover you’ll not discover one other model that has even near the variety of comfortable prospects as Nissan.
“We’re the market leaders on this section as a result of we put our prospects first – within the design and engineering of our autos, but additionally within the buying and possession expertise.”
Because the Nissan Qashqai invented the crossover section in 2007, and the Juke created the compact crossover section in 2010, Nissan has been the market chief for UK crossover gross sales.
The Qashqai is a major fixture within the UK’s high 10 promoting automobiles, with the Nissan Juke recurrently getting into the highest 15 best-selling fashions.
And in a lift to British manufacturing, Nissan will subsequent week unveil the brand new Qashqai, which is able to once more be constructed on the Sunderland plant, and go on sale later within the 12 months.
The Qashqai is the UK’s largest quantity manufactured automotive with greater than three million manufactured in Sunderland and offered worldwide.
Nissan’s Sunderland plant can also be the biggest automotive manufacturing facility in UK historical past, with one in three British-made automobiles coming off its manufacturing traces, making Nissan the UK’s greatest automotive producer.
While Nissan has needed to shut showroom doorways throughout the nationwide lockdown, the model’s Store@House service is supporting prospects with their subsequent buy from the consolation of their houses.
Clients can browse and configure fashions, discover finance choices, and even click-and-collect from their nearest COVID-secure Nissan showroom.
