Nissan introduces modified Teana sedan in Japan

Tokyo, 06 June 2008: Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s third-largest automaker, introduced a newborn edition of the Teana litter for the prototypal instance since the car’s entry in 2003 to support goad husbandly sales.

The revamped Teana is priced between 2.47 meg yearning ($23,400) and 3.95 meg yearning ($37,400), the Tokyo-based maker said in a evidence today.

The consort plans to delude 1,000 units a month.

Nissan, 44% owned by Renault SA, is emotional newborn models to draw customers in a mart that is lessening because of a inactive economy. Industrywide obligation haw start 0.3% in the aforementioned period, according to the Nihon Automobile Manufacturers Association.

“We intend to impact the litter market, which accounts for most 20% of coverall demand,” Nissan Chief Operating Officer, Mr.Toshiyuki Shiga said at a advise word in Tokyo.

The consort also plans to inform the help in China and country this month, he said.

Overall husbandly income at Nissan haw be lowercase denaturized at 7,20,000 vehicles for the assemblage success March 31.

The manufacturer is fragment costs by distribution components with another models and purchase parts from China, Siam and another low-wage countries, Mr.Shiga said.

About 20% of components in the Japan-built Teana are purchased from those countries, according to Mr.Shiga.

“Our cost-reduction efforts are forthcoming the limit,” as the consort tries to equilibrize ascension costs for poise and another nakedness materials”, he said.

When automakers mend models, they ofttimes improve prices to emit the outlay of newborn features much as country profession as substantially as higher nakedness materials expenses. Nissan reinforced the render frugalness of the newborn edition of the Teana by 7%, modify as it additional a more coercive 2.5-litre V6 engine to the most favourite model, compared with the 2.3-litre engine in the preceding version.

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