Nissan built 650,000 cars in Europe in 2013, with Sunderland building 500,000 of those.

As well as the Qashqai, Note and Juke, the Sunderland plant will be building a new Infiniti model.

Sunderland is one of the most efficient plants in Europe, and has been since around 2000.

Rather than Sunderland closing, I would imagine that if any Nissan plants were under threat it would be the smaller Spanish plant, or, given the economic turmoil in Russia, the Russian plant.

Edited by Auristocrat on 26/01/2015 at 20:57

It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, this new model has that the unsuccessful Koleos didn't.

Presumably there'll be some platform and engine sharing, and some effort to differentiate it (and I've already forgotten the name) from the Qashqai.