Nissan - a curious range of vehicles

[DrTre]

Anyone know why Nissan don't have a Focus/Golf sector or Mondeo/Passat sector car?
No Primera, No Almera etc...
Find it a little odd not to have anything in these major sectors...

[LuS1fer]

Because they're mainly badge-engineered Renaults these days?

[farrendahl]

DrTre said:

Anyone know why Nissan don't have a Focus/Golf sector or Mondeo/Passat sector car?
No Primera, No Almera etc...
Find it a little odd not to have anything in these major sectors...

The latest generation Primera slowly but surely dropped of the sales charts, hence it's removal from the line up. As for a Golf segment competitor they feel they have that covered with the Note and Qashqai in it's 2 wheel drive arrangement hence no direct competitor. They will also probably say that the Leaf will be a Focus/Golf segment competitor.

[MondeoMan1981]

Just read in Autocar they are looking to launch a new Almera type model. New Micra out soon too.

They are really just badge engineered Renaults these days a lot of their models.

[blank]

The Qashqai was released as the Almera replacement/Golf rival.


And very well it's done too!

[ajprice]

Seeing how the new model Micra looks older and cheaper than the current car, I'd say they are going for a 2 car range again with the Micra and Juke covering the lower and higher end.

[tuborgman]

your lucky you don't have the almerea replacement, we have them in Ireland, the tilda and they are woefull slow witted things

[DrTre]

Cheers all.
Still find it a little odd to not have, what I'd consider, staple diet of models. Anyway, moving on..

[HellDiver]

tuborgman said:

your lucky you don't have the almerea replacement, we have them in Ireland, the tilda and they are woefull slow witted things

Donnelly's import then here to N. Ireland. I've seen exactly one of them, and that was sitting in the showroom.

Rediculously cheap, though, they were selling them for less than a Micra.

[XJSJohn]

They do, I guess not marketed in the UK. probably because they are prety ste TBH.

Sunny (yes they do still make it for Asia)



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[excel monkey]

DrTre said:

Cheers all.
Still find it a little odd to not have, what I'd consider, staple diet of models. Anyway, moving on..

Yes it's a staple diet, but not a profitable one.

Nissan sells a full range of saloon cars in the US (Versa/Sentra/Altima/Maxima) but for the UK it has obviously decided that it's not worth competing with Renault for the mainstream market, and is focussing on more profitable niches (sports cars and 4x4s) instead.