Nissan India unveils 'Sunny', its new saloon

Mumbai: Nissan Motor Co today unveiled its premium offering for the mid-size segment in India - the new Nissan 'Sunny' - and also said it is studying the opportunity to launch a small car in the Indian market."We are launching the new saloon Sunny in October to coincide with the festive season. The petrol and diesel variant of the Nissan Sunny will be manufactured at the Renault Nissan alliance Orgadam facility in Chennai," Nissan Motor India's Managing Director and Chief Executive, Kiminobu Tokuyama, told reporters here.[caption id="attachment_53634" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="Yoshikazu Hanawa, President of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., shows off a ninth-generation Sunny. AFP"][/caption]Nissan Sunny was designed at Nissan Design and Nissan Motor Co Ltd headquarters in Japan along with inputs from 170 countries, and it would be sold worldwide. It made its global debut at the 8th China (Guangzhou)International Automobile Exhibition last December.The unveiling of the car reinstates company's seriousness on business operations in India and "reiterates that we are as per schedule on our Indian plans," Tokuyama said.The 10th Generation Nissan Sunny is based on the popular V- (Versatile) platform, the one used in the Nissan Micra.PTI