The Nissan Sunderland, UK, plant may not have happened if a minister who tried to stop the government grant to sweeten the deal had got his way. The person within government responsible for the backtrack was overruled by PM Thatcher and the promised assistance was delivered.
The first cars rolled off the production line in 1986. The Bluebird was the first model which became the Primera in 1990. The Micra became the second model in 1992 and the one million mark was reached at the beginning of 1995. The Almera hatchback became the third model in 2000.
In 2006 the Primera and Almera were retired and were replaced by the Qashqai and Note models. Micra production was moved to France, replaced by the Juke and a couple of tears later the Leaf was introduced. The Note was phased out, leaving three models in 2017 and that is the case today.
The plant today services 137 markets, directly employs 6,000 ithe another 30,000 in the UK supply chain. Nissan also makes the Qashqai and Juke hybrid models along with a move to 100% renewable energy being used by Sunderland plant and suppliers. The Qashqai hybrid is shown below.
For production by model up until 2014, please click here.
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