10:46 am, May 6, 2011
NISSAN has announced a 35 per cent year-on-year leap in European sales and a record market share for April.
A total of 235,543 cars were sold between January and April, representing an increase of more than 61,000 units versus 2010.
The firm says these strong results were buoyed by the launch of the new Micra and ‘the continuing success’ of the Qashqai.
This performance has seen Nissan improve its share of the overall European market over the same period to 3.8 per cent (0.9 per cent up on last year).
April accounted for 53,840 sales, more than 20 per cent up on 2010, securing a monthly market share of 3.5 per cent.
Nissan also reports that the Sunderland-built Juke crossover is also performing strongly with 36,500 sales so far in 2011, and nearly 60,000 since its launch last September.
Bernard Loire, vice president sales operations Europe, said: ‘Nissan’s excellent start to 2011 is continuing, with April sales nearly 9,500 units above 2010, setting an all-time record market share for the month.
‘All of our major European markets have shown an impressive year-on-year improvement in the January – April period, including Russia, UK and Spain where Nissan is now the top-selling Japanese brand.’
