Nissan Vice-President, Colin Dodge, has announced plans t introduce nine new models in India by 2012 to secure its market share in India. The first three new models are to arrive in 2009 and will supplement the current two imported models, the Nissan X-Trail SUV and the Nissan Teana sedan.
Colin Dodge told reporters: “There is a strategic importance for India as it has a great potential (with) forecast of over 3 million units in the next five years.” He added: “Globally, Nissan has five per cent market share and in India also we hope to have around the same level.”
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Nissan are to incorporate the newly developed Dual Injector System in small-displacement petrol engines from as early as 2010. The new systems is similar in theory to “direct-injection” systems, which are difficult to use on small-displacement engines because they require a high-pressure pump that complicates system design and makes component layout less cost-efficient. According to Nissan, the new injector system, which uses one injector per intake port rather than one per cylinder, improves fuel efficiency by up to 4%. The improvement in fuel efficiency is accomplished due to the diameter of the fuel droplets being reduced by 60%. Nissan says the new injector system is easier on the catalyst system, using half the amount of rare metals in the catalyst.
Carlos Ghosn, the head of Renault and Nissan, has been quoted by French daily Le Monde saying there will be no rebound in car markets in Europe and Japan before 2011 despite the scrappage schemes in Europe that encourage car buyers to trade in older cars for new cars. This has tempered the decline and resulted in a quarterly upturn from the last quarter of 2008 but Ghosn predicts that there will be no recovery in car industry in Europe and Japan until at least the first quarter of 2011.