OREANDA-NEWS. St. Petersburg Nissan plant in the I half of 2016 has produced 16,785 cars - more by 14.2% than the year before. The agency "AUTOSTAT" was informed about it in the press service of Nissan, by noting that the production increase, in spite of the decline of the market, became possible first of all due to the production of bestsellers Nissan Qashqai and X-Trail. In addition, the company began the production of the new generation Nissan Murano in St. Petersburg in June.

Meanwhile, due to the continued fall of the Russian car market the plant Nissan in March of 2016 went from two shifts to one that resulted in a reduction of about 500 jobs. In the April the production rate was increased by 22 cars per hour. As noted, the company will be able to return to two shifts as the demand recovery goes in the market.

In the capacity of AvtoVAZ and the Izhevsk car plant for six months of 2016 it was produced 10,161 cars Nissan Almera, Sentra and Tiida (-46,7%). The conveyor of Moscow plant "Renault Russia" produced 3786 crossovers Nissan Terrano (-28,6%). Thus, the production of Nissan cars in Russia in the I half of 2016 was 30,732 units, less by 21.4% compared to the same period of the last year. As it was noted, with the start of local production of the new Murano the Nissan Company produces 95% of cars in Russia, which are sold in the local market.

The bestseller of Nissan in Russia in I half-year was Nissan Qashqai crossover, whose sales grew by 62.9% up to 9178 units. Second place went to the SUV Nissan X-Trail - this model was chosen by 8786 customers (-16.4%).