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Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn unveiled the company's all-new Micra these days at the 2010 Geneva motor display. Even though
the Micra itself is sufficient to now not be coming back to America, it looks constructed on an all-new international small-car platform referred to currently inside Nissan because the V-platform. "This new platform adjustments everything," boasted Ghosn throughout the press conference. "Our next compact vehicles have a tendency to be during the pipeline.
During the past, Nissan had a minimal presence in the compact segment because we have a tendency to did not be afflicted by a particular platform suited to the ones customers' desires. Now we
are thus going to be ready to compete, plus at the terribly best level. Our new lineup up of compact cars will facilitate to building up Nissan's global market presence up of 80% today to 94% in 2012." Versatility is the chief to Nissan's small-car strategy -- and, for which matter, the V-platform itself. The architecture will spawn a minimum of three different products for Nissan's ever-expanding global stage, and will be in-built four plants spread around the globe: India, Thailand, China, and Mexico. That lovely a lot tells you each one you have to learn concerning where Nissan hopes to sell little cars. Indeed, Nissan sources determine that both and every of these four plants will be fed by a locally-sourced supply chain that would keep production simple and inexpensive, crucial factors for profitability in the razor-thin profit margins that small cars command. Nissan will not continue building the Micra in England, less than Europe is still an significant marketplace for its subcompact providing. Nissan additionally released small print pertaining to the European-spec vehicle today, which will at last succeed in dealers later about that autumn. Cosmetically, the hot Micra is the smaller amount radical in comparison to the outgoing model, eschewing the "bubble-on-bubble" aestethic in favor of a rounded, added conservative appear. The interior is in a identical fashion rounded, and shares several portions (the door pulls, direction wheel, and climate controls, for instance) allowing for the Cube. Customary in each Euro-spec Micra is a 80-hp, 1.2-liter inline three-cylinder engine, mated either through a five-speed manual gearbox or Nissan's (seemingly omnipresent) continually-variable transmission. If that might not enough power, a supercharged shape of the identical engine also will be out there, manufacturing simply below 100 hp. More importantly, the supercharged engine is fitted along with a stop/start system, permitting it to generate solely Ninety-five grams of carbon dioxide for every kilometer driven. What engines can we get? Perhaps a better question is what car will we receive? Our sources within Nissan are not asserting, but they confirm that we will be ready to locate a bunch of version of the Micra for America, but with completely different styling. One assumes therefore the handsome small Micra would be deemed too rather like our existing Versa. But the Versa is so uninteresting, we would feel free if the
Micra just replaced it, kind of frankly.