With Nissan enjoying vibrant sales of cars like the Juke and Qashqai, it would be nice to see the brand taking on Opel, Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota head-on once
again, like in the good old days. For this to happen, a strong youth-oriented hatchback and sedan need
to appear. Something like the Sentra
for instance. Our wish may very well
come true.
Nissan announced that it will start building a new compact hatchback at its factory in Sunderland,
England, from 2014. Some R1.6 billion is being ploughed to make
this happen. The new unnamed car will share the same platform as the LEAF electric car.
Not since the Sabre
of the 1990s has Nissan produced anything worthy of being mentioned in the same
breath as Golf, Focus, Astra and the
like. There’s even an opportunity
here to fire up a hot performance hatch to take on such distinguished club
members as Renault Megane RS. We can
only hope and dream.
* LEAF pictured above
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