Nissan Note : already the end of their career – The argus

2006 – 2016: the career of the Nissan Note has been very short, since only ten years after its launch, the japanese manufacturer has just stop produce this model in its plant in Sunderland (England). It will be removed permanently from the european market to around march 2017, when stocks will be depleted.

The Note was the general public of Nissan, which sold the least on the Old Continent : 24 800 copies only in the first eight months of the year, up from 33 000 last year same period figures from Jato Dynamics). And his horizon was suddenly clogged up with the revelation of the Micra of the fifth generation.

Sacrificed for the benefit of the Micra

Unveiled at the Mondial de l’automobile, the new Micra is based on the technical platform of the Renault Clio. It therefore leaves the category of “small city” to come to be placed on the ” citadines versatile “, which was already the Note since its restyling in 2013.

Even if it had been cultivating its difference with its high roof and tailgate is vertical, remnants of its past, monospace citadin, this last would not have been able to make the weight in front of the new coming, to which must find the free way to make the best possible scores in this highly competitive market.

originally, the Nissan Note was a minivan urban.

where what Nissan calls ” a reorganization of the segment B “ around a single central element, intended to be the volume, the Micra. the And this is the Note pays the note…

Ringardisée by the Juke

We can say that life has not always been easy for the Note at Nissan. Its original format of minispace ground -she competed at the time of the Renault Modus and the Citroen C3 Picasso – made ringardiser from 2010 by the output of the crossover urban Juke. Not nice, buddy !

This is why, on the marketing plan, Nissan has benefited from the restyling 2013 to try this famous replacement on the market citadines versatile. With little success, to the point of take even less gloves screw-to-screw it with the new Micra.

in The course of his career, the Nissan Note has, however, passed to 650 000 copies in Europe. That almost 64 000 in France, and spread over the years :

Sales Nissan Note in France
2006	7 698 e.g.
2007	8 170 example
2008	7 315 e.g.
2009	7 429 example
2010	6 175 example
2011	4 094 e.g.
2012	3 392 g.
2013	4 114 e.g.
2014	7 033 e.g.
2015	5 671 e.g.
2016	2 693 example
Total	63 784 e.g.

Of the place to the Qashqai

the judgment of the Nissan Note free up space on the production lines in Sunderland order to increase the rates on the Qashqai (the new Micra will be produced in France, in the Renault plant of Flins).

The Notes will continue his career in other walks of life.

note that the judgment of the Note only concerns Europe, as this model will continue to be marketed on other markets, including Japan and North America, where it takes the name Versa Note.