According to a top official from the company, Nissan Motor India will begin the export of its entry level sedan Sunny from March this year. The Japanese company currently produces hatchback Micra & Sunny at its Oragadam near Chennai manufacturing facility which is jointly owned by French automaker Renault.

We will be exporting Sunny by March-end. Already we were exporting Micra to many countries. Initially, Sunny will be exported to Middle East market, Kiminobu Tokuyama, Managing Director, Nissan Motor India, said.

Currently, Nissan sold 25,000 units of Micra while the Sunny diesel version has got over 4,000 bookings so far, he said.

On their future plans, he said the company would also increase its capacity of the Chennai plant owing to increase in production. “Initially the plant’s annual capacity is two lakh units. We will increase it to four lakh units by March..”, he said.

Commenting on whether the company would be required to make additional investments, he said so far Nissan has invested Rs 2,800 Crore at the Chennai facility and this would be sufficient for the plant expansion.

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