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Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Japan’s second biggest automaker, wants Nissan's luxury brand, Infiniti, to have a 10 percent share in the premium segment, which amounts to 500,000 units.
- Infiniti To Build New Compact Model At Nissan's Uk Plant
A few months after Infiniti backed out of a plan to have Magna Steyr contract-manufacture its first ever premium compact model in Austria, the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday it has decided to build the car in the UK. Production will take place...
- Infiniti Backs Out Of Plan To Have Magna Steyr Build Its Mercedes-benz-based Compact Model
In May this year, the Nissan group announced that it had come to an agreement and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with auto manufacturer Magna Steyr for the assembly of a new, Mercedes-Benz-based, Infiniti compact model in Austria. Well,...
- Infiniti Says It's Mulling A Gt-r Based Halo Supercar
Isn't it strange how things turn out sometimes? In March 2011, one of our readers tipped us off on a 2004 Infiniti G35 Coupe dressed up to look like a Nissan GT-R that she had found in Quebec, Canada. A few months later, the group’s head-honcho,...
- Tokyo '09: Carlos Ghosn Confirms Plans For An All-electric, High-performance Infiniti Model
Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn, took advantage of the 41st Tokyo Motor Show to announce that the group's luxury Infiniti brand plans to introduce a fully-electric, battery-powered vehicle. According to Ghosn, the concept is to create...
- Luxury Auto Brand Market Share In Canada - September 2011
Between the three of them, Canada's trio of best-selling luxury brands accounted for 54.4% of all premium vehicle sales in September 2011. Audi, with 12.9% of the market, was up by half a percentage point. BMW, at 21.9%, was up more than a full percentage...
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Infiniti’s Mercedes A-Class-based Compact Model to be Built by Magna Steyr
Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Japan’s second biggest automaker, wants Nissan's luxury brand, Infiniti, to have a 10 percent share in the premium segment, which amounts to 500,000 units.
The “Power 88†plan that Ghosn revealed last June calls for the rapid expansion of Infiniti, which is an established player in the U.S. market but almost non-existent in Europe: in 2010 it sold 4,500 units, a tenth of BMW’s January 45,000 sales…
Back in August, we revealed that Infiniti was preparing a small, entry-level premium model to compete with the likes of Audi’s A3 and BMW’s 1-Series, and that it would use another premium carmaker’s help: Mercedes Benz and its newly developed MFA platform employed by the 2012 A-Class.
Read more »- Infiniti To Build New Compact Model At Nissan's Uk Plant
A few months after Infiniti backed out of a plan to have Magna Steyr contract-manufacture its first ever premium compact model in Austria, the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday it has decided to build the car in the UK. Production will take place...
- Infiniti Backs Out Of Plan To Have Magna Steyr Build Its Mercedes-benz-based Compact Model
In May this year, the Nissan group announced that it had come to an agreement and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with auto manufacturer Magna Steyr for the assembly of a new, Mercedes-Benz-based, Infiniti compact model in Austria. Well,...
- Infiniti Says It's Mulling A Gt-r Based Halo Supercar
Isn't it strange how things turn out sometimes? In March 2011, one of our readers tipped us off on a 2004 Infiniti G35 Coupe dressed up to look like a Nissan GT-R that she had found in Quebec, Canada. A few months later, the group’s head-honcho,...
- Tokyo '09: Carlos Ghosn Confirms Plans For An All-electric, High-performance Infiniti Model
Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn, took advantage of the 41st Tokyo Motor Show to announce that the group's luxury Infiniti brand plans to introduce a fully-electric, battery-powered vehicle. According to Ghosn, the concept is to create...
- Luxury Auto Brand Market Share In Canada - September 2011
Between the three of them, Canada's trio of best-selling luxury brands accounted for 54.4% of all premium vehicle sales in September 2011. Audi, with 12.9% of the market, was up by half a percentage point. BMW, at 21.9%, was up more than a full percentage...