Nissan will stop the Note production at Sunderland from 2017
- While the future production of 100,000 Nissan Juke on the Sunderland UK site is not at all guaranteed (see Inovev’s analysis "Nissan unveils a new B-segment SUV: the Kicks"), the Japanese carmaker has announced it would stop producing the Note on this site from spring 2017.
- The production of the first generation of the Note (a B-segment MPV) started in Sunderland in 2006.
The second generation was launched in 2013 but its sales have strongly declined.
Consequently its production declined gradually from 107 000 units in 2006, down to to 40 000 units in 2016.
This compact van has certainly suffered from a fierce competition from compact SUVs that were developed from the 2010s.
The second generation was launched in 2013 but its sales have strongly declined.
Consequently its production declined gradually from 107 000 units in 2006, down to to 40 000 units in 2016.
This compact van has certainly suffered from a fierce competition from compact SUVs that were developed from the 2010s.
- The Note is also manufactured in Japan (for Asian markets) and Mexico (for US markets).
It is therefore quite possible that the Note continues to be sold in Europe, this time coming from the Mexico plant in the same way as Honda HRV which is also produced in Mexico and whose European sales are very close to the Nissan Note’s in Europe (25 000 units and 28,000 units respectively, on the cumulative nine months 2016).
It is therefore quite possible that the Note continues to be sold in Europe, this time coming from the Mexico plant in the same way as Honda HRV which is also produced in Mexico and whose European sales are very close to the Nissan Note’s in Europe (25 000 units and 28,000 units respectively, on the cumulative nine months 2016).
- The production of the Note in Mexico has also declined: from 90 000 units in 2014 down to 70 000 in 2015 and 50,000 in 2016.
- The transfer of European production of the Note to Mexico could improve the situation of the Mexican site.
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