{"id":8468,"date":"2019-03-12T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/nissan-cuts-two-models-from-sunderland-plant\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:08:15","slug":"nissan-cuts-two-models-from-sunderland-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/nissan-cuts-two-models-from-sunderland-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan cuts two models from Sunderland plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Nissan Infiniti Q30\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9F7D\/production\/_105992804_nissan.q30.g.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Nissan plans to end the production of two of its Infiniti cars at Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of a bigger plan that involves pulling the Infiniti brand out of Western Europe. As a result the Q30 car and QX30 sports-utility vehicle will no longer be made in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Nissan did not say how many jobs will be affected, but said it will discuss any impact with employees.<\/p>\n<p>The move follow&#8217;s Nissan&#8217;s recent decision to build its new X-Trail model in Japan, instead of Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>The Infiniti brand has struggled to make a mark in Western Europe- last year sales halved to 5,800.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47107561\" class=\"story-body__link\">Nissan chooses Japan over UK for new car<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Western Europe remains the most challenging and competitive region for premium cars,&#8221; Infiniti&#8217;s chief spokesman, Trevor Hale, said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Nissan plans to promote the Infiniti brand in the US and Chinese markets.<\/p>\n<p>In the US it plans to focus Infiniti on sports-utility vehicles and in China it plans to launch five new vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Infiniti line-up of cars will be electric from 2010 and diesel versions will be discontinued, the company said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47542011\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Nissan plans to end the production of two of its Infiniti cars at Sunderland. It&#8217;s part of a bigger plan that involves pulling the Infiniti brand out of Western Europe. As a result the Q30 car and QX30 sports-utility vehicle will no longer be made in the UK. Nissan did not &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}