Sales Booking of Nissan March
New City Car of Nissan March in Auto Show IIMS 2010
The new city car of Nissan March sold well and the sales booking is very high. Although this new car will be manufactured in November 2010, many consumers are willing to wait. Even during the auto show, IIMS 2010 held at July 23 to August 1, Nissan March has already reached 300 units of sales orders. According Mrs. Dinne Musu, Public Relations Manager of PT. Nissan Motor Indonesia, it is anticipated that demand. Therefore Nissan Indonesia has spreading the questionnaire to customers about the Nissan March during auto show to know how national auto market wants.
For this questionnaire, Nissan asking two important questions, namely about the color choice and type of transmission that is desired by the customer. And the result of survey state those 75% respondents choose the automatic transmission. While the color choices said that the largest choice is white with 33%, 27% black and 18% silver.
Strong demand of this new car from this customer is a unique phenomenon, because Nissan Indonesia still has not determined the retail price of Nissan March. According to Dinne Musu, the management of Nissan Indonesia still calculates the correct price for the new city car.
During the auto show IIMS 2010, excluding sales demand for Nissan March, total consumer demand for Nissan cars reach 1048 units. Nissan Livina family of Grand Livina, Livina XR, and Livina X-Gear provides the largest contribution. The sales figures reached 69% of the total demand for Nissan. The rest are Nissan Serena with 18%, SUV X-Trail (11%) and 2% are Nissan Teana & Frontier Navara.
In the segment of city car/hatchback, Nissan March will compete with Toyota Yaris, Honda Jazz, Suzuki Swift, Ford Fiesta dan Mazda2.

