Posted on 02/02/2019 9:52:45 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Japanese carmaker Nissan is cancelling plans to make the next model of its X-Trail sports utility vehicle in Britain, less than two months before the country is due to leave the European Union, broadcaster Sky News said on Saturday.
Nissan first said four months after Britain voted in June 2016 to leave the EU that it would manufacture a new model of the SUV in Britain, which was seen as a major vote of confidence in the country’s manufacturing future.
The main production plant for the current X-Trail is in Japan, while Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, northeast England, makes the smaller Qashqai SUV and other models.
“Precise details of Nissan’s impending announcement were unclear this weekend, but sources said it was likely to initially involve abandoning the X-Trail production plans which had been announced in the autumn of 2016,” Sky reported.
A UK-based spokesman for Nissan declined to comment.
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... Ironically, the E.U. recently signed a free trade agreement with Japan, but the U.K. will only be able to benefit from this FTA while it is still in the European Union. The U.K. is scheduled to leave the E.U. on March 29th. After this date, cars exported from the U.K. to the E.U. could be subject to a 10% tariff. The X-Trail is currently made only in Japan, and thanks to the recent FTA, these cars could be imported into the E.U. at a tariff of zero percent. Nissan may also announce that one of its other factories in the E.U. – probably in France – would now produce the X-Trail.
Trump should make it clear that we’d be happy to sign a strong,far reaching,long term trade agreement with Britain once they leave the EU.
EXACTLY!!!!!
Yes to that.
In the details of the decsions, we find out it has nothing to do with the Brexit/EU issue and everything to do with the Japanese not wanting their car wired all backwards.
Lol. The steering wheel on the wrong side is very confusing. The British are weird. Lol.
And a spanner? What the heck us that? The boot and bonnet? No those are not clothing items. Weird. :)
I truly believe Nissan will be a dead brand in less than five years. They are rushing towards irrelevancy. All of a sudden midsize pick ups are very very popular. The new Ranger coming out is already a hit. But Nissan is still using a 15-year-old truck, the Frontier, as their midsize leader. The Xterra, of which I own two of could have been replaced by a newer up to date model already sold overseas. But Nissan does not seem to be interested in adapting to what the public wants.
I believe he did a year or so ago.
Nissan US SUV sales are enough to keep it in business in the USA.
Nissan is part of Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance that makes more than 10 million vehicles a year, and is tied in with other auto manufacturers.
I think I recall him having done so either during the campaign of after the election.But IMO this would be a very good time to repeat it...clearly and unmistakably.
I agree that the brand does not understand its US customers. They had a good loyal following for the Xterra with it ready for a update in 2015 and instead, cancel it to avoid the cost.
Their midsize truck, as you say, has a sales base worthy of refresh and they ignore it as well. The keep updating the uni-body suburban-mom cheap crossovers and nothing else. The Pathfinder could make a path if it had to being basically a mininvan with a nose.
I just added a killer Audio system to my 2012 Xterra and some KO2 tires. I will probably put another 100k on it since there are no highway worthy off road vehicles of this nature.
Trump has said that before. However, I think one of the problems with the deal that was rejected in the house of Commons is that with Northern Ireland being part of the customs union (i.e. still in some way in the EU) it would prevent the UK from going out and making trade deals because they were still quasi in the EU and no member country can make separate trade deals.
Not so. Nissan along with it's partners Renault and Mitsubishi, are the leading auto manufacturer in the world. They control ten major brands and sell all around the world. It will not be a dead brand in five years. I think you're talking about GM and Ford, who haven't been doing so well lately. Ford is stopping production of sedans, and will only make trucks and SUVs. As for "All of a sudden midsize pick ups are very very popular.", this has been the case for a couple decades (led by Nissan, who popularized the crew cab fad).
Nissan wasn't doing so well 25 years ago, but was resurrected by an alliance with Renault and their success since then is huge. I see more and more Nissans and Infiniti cars on the road, and fewer and fewer Fords and GM cars. I think GM will be dead within five years.
Another note about Nissan. While Ford has been sleeping (and suffering stagnant sales with cars), Nissan has become a major automaker in Europe, Russia, India, Brazil, South Korea and China, as well as in lesser countries like Mexico. The top Asian automaker in China is Nissan. Not irrelevant, but growing.
Japan also has the steering wheel on the wrong side—but most of the world agrees with "wrong-side driving".
I know. :)
Translation: The vehicle was not projected to sell enough units in the UK and Europe to make the factory worthwhile
here's a simple one Why American eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket
It’s all to do with the fact that commercial American eggs are federally required to be washed and sanitized before they reach the consumer. EU and UK egg marketing laws, on the other hand, state that Class A eggs – those found on supermarkets shelves, must not be washed, or cleaned in any way.The UK is not willing to change that, so that's a spanner in the works. And that's just one of the many potential points of contention.
And they were and are using the UK as a base for manufacturing cars shipped to Europe. Though that will change now
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