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Tichafara Bepe, Business Reporter
ONE of the world’s leading car makers, Nissan Corporate Limited will next year start manufacturing its highly regarded Nissan Navara heavy duty pick-up in South Africa, an official said.
The manufacturing of the latest edition of the Nissan Navara heavy duty pick-up in neighbouring South Africa would enable the Zimbabwean market to easily source the automobile.
Zimbabwe is already a niche market for the company’s NP200 and NP300 Hardbody light commercial vehicles (LCV). Speaking at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) last Thursday, Nissan Group of Africa director of sales and operations Mr Jim Dando said the Nissan Navara heavy duty pick-up was specially designed to suit rough terrains synonymous with most road networks in Africa.
“Last month, the company’s South African plant, which already produces the NP200 and NP300 Hardbody light commercial vehicles (LCV) for export into 45 African countries, announced its intentions to start building the highly regarded and award-winning Nissan Navara heavy duty pick up, which is scheduled to start rolling off the production lines in November 2020.
“The Nissan Navara will be made for Africa, in Africa by Africans, it’s just one of the ways we are living up to our commitment to bring the best possible mobility solutions to the continent. We have high hopes for Africa and its people. Nissan’s success in Zimbabwe remains built on the popularity of the country’s favourite NP300 Hardbody, the half-tonne NP200 and the one-tonne Nissan Navara. The pick-ups’ sturdiness and reliability have long made them a byword for mobility in Africa,” he said.
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