Nissan NV200 van was spotted in Bangalore-Chennai Highway close to the company’s upcoming big plant. The Van/MPV comes under the same segment at Tata’s Winger considering the body type and not the features so it might start a new niche in the market.
If that happens, it would open a floodgate of sliding doored MPVs from Japan as Toyota has two aces up its sleeves in the disguise of Toyota Alphard and Previa which are a massive success in the pacific ring. In India these two are quite the celebrities as Alphard is what the CM of TamilNadu rolls in and the Previa enjoyed stardom in Kamalhaasan’s “Panchathandiram”. Honda could join up with its Freed MPV.
NV200 comes in two body types, people or cargo carrier, the one spotted testing is a people carrier but Nissan might even bring the cargo carrier as there had been speculation of a LCV from Nissan.
From the looks of it the following will form Nissan’s future line up
- X-trail (present)
- Teana (present)
- Micra (confirmed)
- Micra sedan (confirmed)
- Murano (confirmed)
- 350z (confirmed)
- NV200 (spotted testing)
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January 7, 2010
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