Nissan Motor's Overseas Production Tops 10 Million Vehicles

10/17/96

Nikkei English News has reported that Nissan Motor Co. announced on Tuesday that it had produced 10,014,485 vehicles outside of Japan by the end of September. Nissan is the first Japanese automaker to surpass 10 million vehicles in non-domestic production. Nissan's first overseas venture made Bluebird cars and Datsun trucks in Mexico, beginning in 1966.

By the end of September, Nissan had built 3,519,779 vehicles in the U.S., 2,132,598 in Mexico, and 1,375,651 in the U.K. These figures don't include knockdown kits with more than 60% parts content imported from Japan.

Nissan says its overseas production has grown rapidly since the early 1990s: the company's cumulative non-domestic production reached 5 million vehicles just 5 years ago, in September 1991.

Paul Dever -- The Auto Channel