Over in India, Nissan has unveiled its Sunny mid-size sedan, which is set to begin selling in the country in October. The car will be the automaker’s second model to be produced at its Chennai factory, and is part of a five model range that the company plans to assemble locally, reports state.
The introduction of the Sunny seeks to address the growing demand for mid-sized sedans in the country, brought about by a rising disposable income in the 350-million strong middle class population as well as growth in the economy.
The Sunny is expected to challenge class stalwarts from Maruti Suzuki India and Hyundai, namely the Swift Dzire, the SX4 and the latter’s Verna sedan. The company is looking at the car to drive local sales to 40,000 units in the current financial year, up from the 13,030 it sold in the same period last year.
The company currently makes the Micra hatchback in the Chennai plant, which it jointly owns with Renault. Production capacity is expected to be 400,000 vehicles a year by the middle of next year, with sizeable export numbers being planned by the end of 2012. The Sunny is also expected to be an integral cog in the company’s mid-term ASEAN plans, very likely to be the second eco-car model built for the Thai market, with production set to begin in September.
Looking to sell your car? Sell it with Carro.
This model already few year old, yet our ETCM never introduce it as new model for our “upgrade” Sentra. Disappointed with ETCM still selling old models for Sentra and Serena.
This car was only unveiled in China last year.
the car looks sick.
a sick dugong
Even India is getting the latest sunny, yet we Malaysian is suckers cause we still get 13yrs Sentra from our unbeloved Tan Chong! Same goes to Latio because overseas such as Singapore is getting facelift since last year but here we get “old stock”.
M’sia NAP and Politics?
off-topic
2012 Toyota Camry – http://twitpic.com/60eixo
ETCM is a profit oriented company. They only look at their bottom line. If anybody feel like they would want to make strategic decision for ETCM, why not buy into the company?
This is a really dull looking car…
Guess what India already got their i20(Getz replacement), New Verna(Latest Accent).
Yet we r stuck with old model.
The fault not fully from Tan Chong. The relationship between government and Tan Chong is like oil and water. So Tan Chong will have hard time to bring latest models of the vehicles. JPJ will try to delay or picky on the Tan Chong’s vehicle proposals for selling in Boleh Land.
since they are not NAZA..
EXACTLY; its all about politics lah.
back in the days before sick Proton came into the market and forced down our throats ( slapping non national cars with 40% ++ duties and other taxes etc), other genuinely competetive cars were priced out.
during that time 1 of 4 new cars registered were Nissan/Datsun. ( prior 1983….)
TanChong is having difficulty getting APs etc…you leave that chinaman company alone, they know what they are doing.
In fact, credit to them in spite of 20 years of sick proton ( and then perodua), they are still in business offering value for money deals.
maybe TC think this car is too ugly so they will just skip this and wait for the latest model lor..
aiyo…. why recently Jap cars (honda, toyota and now nissan) posted here have ugly designs lol…
thismodel just look like the Datsun 120Y during the 70’s …..looked imbalance……Malaysian ppl will like it???
Datsun 120Y looks better than this, the ugliest Sunny ever.
Bland looking car.
check out the Sunny youtube…i dont think its that bad…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkOSVX3TZtY
also…after the video..check out another Nissan commercial :P you will like it..hehe..
thanx for the video.. it really is not that bad… just the angle of the photo that made it looks really bad…
no this is better..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKO-tZGuFDg
:-D
as at mid 2011, still no sign of NIssan Sunny 2011 in Singapore market?