Nissan production, sales and export results for July 2008

Nissan’s global production in July increased 26.8% year-on-year to 315,975 units, marking a record high for the month of July.

Export models Rogue, Teana and Tiida boosted production in Japan to 129,103 units, exceeding the previous year by 50.2%.

Production outside of Japan increased 14.4% year-on-year to 186,872 units marking a record high for the month of July.

In the U.S., production of the Maxima introduced at the end of June and Altima contributed to a production increase of 6.0% year-on-year to 44,942 units.

In Mexico, production increased 12.5% year-on-year to 33,179 units.

In the U.K., production increased 13.4% year-on-year to 35,516 units.

In Spain, production decreased 3.4% year-on-year to 19,846 units.

Production in the General Overseas Markets* (GOM) grew 35.1% year-on-year to 53,389 units mainly due to demand for Teana (introduced in June) and Qashqai (introduced in March) in China, and X-TRAIL (introduced in July) in Indonesia.

In Japan, Nissan’s vehicle registrations in July increased 5.9% year-on-year to 50,091 units, boosted by the all-new Teana and X-TRAIL. Nissan’s share of the domestic market registrations in July was up 0.1 percentage points year-on-year to 16.6%.

Domestic sales of mini-vehicles were down 2.4% from the previous year to 11,739 units.

Including mini-vehicles, Nissan sold 61,830 units in Japan, up 4.2% year-on-year. Market share was up 0.1 percentage points year-on-year to 13.6%.

Global sales increased 11.5% to 331,058 units compared to the previous year.

Nissan sales in the U.S. increased 8.5% year-on-year to 95,319 units due to strong sales of Rogue and Versa (Tiida in Japan).

In Europe, sales increased 10.5% year-on-year to 53,162 units following increased sales of Qashqai, X-TRAIL and Tiida.

Sales in the GOM regions were up 21.0% from the previous year to 95,523 units.

3. Japan Exports**
Nissan’s exports in July increased 84.2% to 83,429 units compared to the previous year.

Exports to North America rose 119.6% year-on-year to 31,271 units resulting from increased demand for Rogue and Murano.

Exports to Europe grew 87.1% year-on-year to 14,759 units on the back of X-TRAIL and Teana’s strong performances in Russia.

Exports to other regions rose 61.5% year-on-year to 37,399 units.