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Nissan have recently announced a huge investment in the UK plant in Sunderland, after announcing that the plant will be the home of the sub brand Infiniti. However, in recent weeks it has developed that Nissan will look to help the struggling economy that has been the Spanish car market by announcing a new 130million Euro development to allow the plant to build the new Golf rival.
The Volkswagen Golf rival was originally to be built in the north east Sunderland plant, but after achieving record production figures, the head of production decided to change the plans and invest more heavily in the Sunderland plant in order to build the new Infiniti range.
The Barcelona plant will be the responsible body for developing the new gearbox for the Nissan and also will be responsible for achieving an additional 24,000 units for the Navara model. Whilst planning the build of the new Golf and Ford Focus rivalling car, the Japanese firm has not let the name of the model slip.
Nissan insist that there is a gap in their current range that needs to be filled to prevent customers from jumping brands and essentially building up brand loyalty. Nissan announced the importance of the Sunderland plant in terms of production numbers and development. The Sunderland plant alone managed to break the companies and the UK's production record for the most cars produced in a year at the number of over 500,000 models.
The UK car market has been boosted up to a four year high with help from the Nissan Sunderland plant and the idea will be to try and achieve the same thing with the Spanish market. Whilst Nissan will be targeting the growing economies of the US, China and India for sales, it will be planning for the future and the return of the positive European economy.