Dongfeng Nissan to export 900 cars to Egypt

Shanghai, August 26 (Gasgoo.com) Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company, a 50:50 joint venture between Nissan Motor Co and Dongfeng Motor Corp, will export 900 Nissan cars to Egypt starting next month, said sina.com yesterday.

The 900 Nissan passenger vehicles will include 400 Livina cars and 500 Sylphy cars, all of them were made at the joint venture's Huadu plant in southern China’s Guangdong province. Their first batch is scheduled to be shipped to Egypt in September, said Sharon Shen, a spokeswoman for Nissan China. These Chinese-made Nissan cars will be sold by Nissan dealers in Egypt.

"Livina and Sylphy are just an attempt of Nissan," Nissan China said. "The future export will be decided by their sales performance and local market changes." Nissan's new global growth strategy encourages its Chinese partners to boost exports. Nissan has a commercial vehicle joint venture in central Chinese city of Zhengzhou.

It will be the second time that Dongfeng Nissan is set to export China-made Nissan cars. In August 2006, the joint venture firstly exported 1,000 Tiida cars to Angola.