
Mr. Kiminobu Tokuyama - MD & CEO, Nissan Motor India, Mr. Hiroshi Nagaoka - Senior VP & Director (Nissan Operations), Mr. Kou Kimura - Senior VP, Renault Nissan Automotive India, Mr. Akira Sakurai - MD, Renault Nissan Automotive India and Mr. Toshiyuki Shiga - Global Chief Operating Officer, Nissan Motor Company
Production of Nissan’s much awaited Micra is underway at the Renault-Nissan Alliance’s plant at Oragadam. The cars have already been sent to showrooms across India and bookings open today. That said, there is a huge confusion among buyers as to the price and trim. We have the same doubts as well but we called up Sherif Nissan and here are the details we collected.
The Micra will be priced between 3.9-5.25 lakhs in Chennai. We think that there are five variants including a sports variant. The base model will still have a tachometer, body coloured bumpers, black interiors, distance to empty and quite some more. It is the same as the competition except for the tachometer, which is standard across the range. The base model will retail for around Rs 3.9 lakhs, Ex-Chennai. What will be the talk of the town however is the top end XV variant that will have all gizmos never heard of in a car of this segment. Feature list as expected is long and Nissan throws in a lot of kit for the price you pay. Rs 5.25 lakhs fetches you power mirrors, Automatic Climate Control, Integrated FM Radio and Stereo, Start-Stop button, Intelligent-key (if you have the key in your pocket, you can open it and drive away), dual tone interiors, twin glove boxes, ABS, airbags, rear spoiler, rear washer wiper, on-board computer readout and quite a lot more. Nissan has clearly taken the lead when it comes to features and an on-road price of Rs 5.75 lakhs for this model makes it equally mouthwatering to ignore.
Ii you are interested, you can walk into any Nissan showroom and book your Micra for Rs 50,000. Pay the rest when taking delivery. From June, you can see extensive marketing on the Micra from Newspapers to Radio to TV ads. Watch out for them. If you thought that the dealer network was too small, you better think again as Nissan will expand to over 80 dealers by 2012, a herculean task as they currently have only 10. That shows their commitment. More details will follow once the car is officially launched in a couple of month’s time. We will keep you posted. Hit the jump for our extensive coverage on the Nissan Micra and Press Release.
Nissan Micra Spied at Factory
Nissan Micra launch at the Geneva Motor Show
Nissan Micra Sedan Rendering
Nissan Micra Coupe Cabriolet Rendering
Nissan India’s Oragadam Plant Unveiled + Pics of Micra from Plant
Autocar’s Testdrive of Micra in Thailand + Exclusive images from Geneva Motor Show 2010
Nissan Micra Website now Live
Nissan Micra receives the Most Environmentally friendly car of the year in Thailand
Nissan Micra easily does 180km/h
Nissan Micra to sport unbeatable price abroad. What about India?
Nissan Micra Bolero variant brochure
» Read more: Nissan Micra production underway; Bookings open today & top model at Rs 5.25 lakhs