Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. has exported seven lakh ‘Made in India’ Nissan and Datsun cars, the company said. Nissan Motor achieved the milestone in seven years.
“With our plans to launch eight new products for the Indian market by 2021 as announced earlier, the future is bright and exciting for Nissan in India,” said Guillaume Sicard, President, Nissan India Operations.
The cars manufactured at the Renault-Nissan Automotive India Ltd’s Chennai plant are exported to 106 countries from Kamarajar Port. For Nissan, the Micra has been the most-exported model out of India, according to a company statement.
“Coupled with this exports achievement, in January we were the fastest growing domestic auto company in the country, and overall the second fastest growing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) this fiscal year so far,” Mr. Sicard said.
India is not only a key hub for completely built-up units (CBU) but also for parts supply. Nissan India exports over 2,500 types of manufactured parts to 25 Nissan and Renault plants in 18 countries, ranking in the top four in volume of parts shipped within Nissan’s global operations, he said.
For Nissan, the Micra has been the most-exported model out of India; other export models in the product line-up include Nissan Sunny, Datsun GO, Datsun GO+ and the Datsun redi-GO.
There has been increasing demand for Datsun models from India in international markets. Datsun GO+ found a new market in South Africa with the beginning of exports from July 2016. Datsun redi-GO exports to Sri Lanka started in August 2016, marking the re-entry of the Datsun brand in the country after 60 years, the statement said.
