Over a million Qashqais produced in Europe
Author: Justin Sferalt
Japanese automaker Nissan announced that production of the Sunderland plant has reached one million units of the Nissan Qashqai model, one of the cars produced in Britain the most successful in history.
Model unit has reached one million four years, six months and 23 days after the start of production, became the first model produced in the UK has reached one million unit mark in a limited time.
This unit has a million of money associated with Qashqai comes with a 2.0 liter diesel engine to be displayed at the O2 Arena in London, which will be determined by the competition.
And is that the Qashqai has become one of the most successful brands in Europe. In fact, in June 2008 began as a third shift of production to meet demand for this model. Although this measure was discontinued in January 2009, the economic situation in the world at that time was back in May 2010 and since then has not stopped. Thus, the plant managed to produce about 1,200 hours on average Qashqai.
The Qashqai, one of the 10 model which has sold more units in the UK as the fourth best-selling model in the C segment in Europe, where its main markets are England, Italy, the Germany, Spain and France. In particular, Spain has become one of the markets where it has contributed more to this success, recording a total of 90,000 units and become the leading C-segment in 2010.
In addition, the model has been throughout its history a highly respected automotive, among other awards have reached the top position for four consecutive years on a list published by an organization of the ADAC in Germany, which is one of demands of the poll the highest quality.