St. Petersburg plant Nissan has produced the 350 thousandth car

St. Petersburg plant Nissan produced the 350 thousandth car since the start of production in June 2009. The jubilee model was the new Nissan X-Trail of bright orange color in the configuration LEYandex. The car is equipped with a 2.5-liter gasoline engine with 171 HP in combination with the updated continuously variable transmission X-TronicCVT, specially reconfigured for the Russian market, informed the press service of Nissan.

“In October of 2017, the plant celebrated the release of the 300-thousandth car, and today, almost a year later; we have already released 350 thousand units. It means that the production goes to an annual, record in its history, production volume of 50 thousand cars per year,” - said Igor Boytsov, general director of the Nissan plant.

Recall that today in St. Petersburg, three popular Nissan models are localized - X-Trail, Qashqai and Murano. In October of the last year, the second shift was introduced, and the company has 457 new jobs. For the first 11 months of 2018, 51,497 Qashqai, X-Trail and Murano crossovers were manufactured at the Nissan plant in St. Petersburg, which is more by 27% than the last year's result of the same period.