Unsold ‘sales’?
Allegations made by British car manufacturers and importers that Nissan, whose Sunny was placed tenth on the British November top-sellers’ list, had registered new cars and not sold them have caused a stir.
Registration figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders credited Nissan with 11,264 registrations in November for a 9.36 per cent share of the British market.
However, rumours have
circulated which suggest that a large proportion of these cars were registered by dealers to be sold later as “pre-registered” cars. Ford and British Leyland have been accused of using similar tactics in the past, but there is growing unrest in the British motor industry over Nissan’s efforts to protect its market prior to production of its own cars in Britain this year. Nissan’s November registrations of 11,264 cars compared with just 4062 in the same month in 1984.
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Press, 9 January 1986, Page 19
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