Nissan will not manufacture the future X-Trail in Sunderland
- Nissan has announced that it will not manufacture the future SUV X-Trail (scheduled for 2020) at its UK site in Sunderland, due to uncertainties related to Brexit.
- Last year, the Japanese automaker announced that it would manufacture its future X-Trail in Sunderland, alongside the Qashqai, but negotiations between the European Union and Great Britain on Brexit have not lead to a clear agreement so far, so Nissan decided to postpone or even abandon this project permanently.
- In 2018, the X-Trail sold 45,000 units in Europe (29 countries). The manufacturer was expecting a production volume of 50,000 per year at the Sunderland site, in addition to the 250,000 units of the Qashqai, which will also be replaced in 2020 (215,000 units were sold in Europe last year).
- The Sunderland site is also expected to abandon production of the Infiniti Q30/QX30, whose sales have not met the manufacturer's objectives. These models’, whose origins date back to 2015, sales in Europe fell to less than 3,800 units in 2018, compared to 8,700 units in 2017 and 8,200 units in 2016. This low sales volume no longer justifies the continued manufacture of this model, even taking into consideration the 8,100 units exported in 2018 ( compared to 14,100 units in 2017 and 12,300 units in 2016). Indeed Nissan is questioning the future of the Infiniti brand in Europe.
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