Japanese automaker Nissan is to chop home manufacturing of its top-selling US mannequin, the Rogue SUV, through the interval of Might to July this 12 months. Nissan is alleged to be altering its manufacturing plans in response to US tariffs and can scale back manufacturing of the Rogue SUV by 13,000 autos at its plant in Kyushu through the above interval. The supply says that this can imply manufacturing will even be halted on some days amid the low output.
Within the first three months of the 12 months, Nissan offered 62,000 Rogue SUVs within the US. So, the deliberate lower is round 20% of that.
For some context, the Rogue SUV was Nissan’s top-selling mannequin within the US final 12 months. It accounted for 246,000 gross sales, greater than 1 / 4 of Nissan’s whole US automobile gross sales.