On October 11th of this year, Nissan officially announced its withdrawal from the Russian market. Note that the Japanese company began its sales in our country 30 years ago, signing the first dealer contracts in 1992. In 2003, the company "Nissan Motor Rus" was registered, later a plant was built in St. Petersburg, and contracts were signed for assembly of cars in Moscow and Izhevsk. The experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" decided to recall the most striking figures from the thirty-year history of the development of the brand in Russia.
Note that in Russia as of July 1, 2022, there were more than 2.2 million Nissan cars. In terms of size, this park ranks the fifth among all existing brands. We also decided to provide statistics in the market for new Nissan passenger cars for the last 15 years. The maximum result came in 2014, when 162.3 thousand cars of the Japanese brand were purchased, and its share then reached the best indicator (6.9%). The most popular model of the brand in our country is Nissan Qashqai crossover, which has consistently been included in the rating of the most popular SUVs in the Russian market. As for the dealer network of the Japanese brand in Russia, at the beginning of October this year it consisted of 117 auto centers. The current agreement to sell Nissan's assets is designed so that the company could still come back within a few years.
In the meantime, it was decided to transfer the warranty and after-sales service of Japanese brand cars to AVTOVAZ, which will take control of the spare parts warehouse and the supply of consumables. Probably, a relationship scheme will be established, as with dealers of the previously departed French brand Renault.
