The Nissan Qashqai is officially the UK’s favourite car of 2022, and the first British-built model to top the yearly sales charts for 24 years.
Figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders personize that the home-grown Qashqai – which was designed in Paddington, engineered in Cranfield and is built in Sunderland – was the nation’s best-selling car of the last 12 months.
A total of 42,704 new Qashqais were driven off dealership forecourts wideness the UK in 2022 and the icon for December vacated stood at an impressive 3,506, reported the SMMT.
To gloat the achievement, an sectional gold-wrapped Qashqai was created in honour of the 7,000 Nissan employees from virtually the UK that have unsalaried to its success.
Andrew Humberstone, managing director of Nissan Motor (GB) Ltd, said: ‘‘This is a landmark moment for a landmark car and it’s unconfined to see how the latest generation Qashqai has struck a chord with car buyers here in the UK.
“We’re veritably thrilled to see this car’s increasing success over the last 16 years, and it’s a fitting tribute to the skills and talents of Nissan’s spanking-new design, engineering, production and sales teams all virtually the UK.”
Three generations of Qashqai have been on sale in the UK since it was first launched in 2007, all of which have regularly appeared among individual month’s best-seller lists.
However, this is the first time it’s been the year’s best-selling car overall, and the first time a Nissan has topped the yearly sales charts.
Built at Nissan’s Sunderland plant, Qashqai is at the heart of a manufacturing operation that is fast rhadamanthine a tabulation for future UK automotive production.
Nissan’s recently spoken EV36Zero plan combines electric vehicles, renewable energy and shower production and will create a sustainable EV manufacturing hub in the north-east of England, supporting thousands of jobs at the plant and its supply chain, and supporting Nissan’s journey to stat neutrality by 2050.
Exciting sensation
A recruitment momentum is currently underway at NMUK, seeking manufacturing staff to join its world-class team.
The latest-generation Qashqai is the first model in Europe to be equipped with Nissan’s unique e-POWER technology, which delivers the heady sensation of driving an electric car without the need to plug in and recharge.
It’s unique technology that’s perfect for car buyers looking for lower emission motoring, but who aren’t quite ready to embrace fully electric vehicles.
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