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Article: Nissan moving ahead with commercial vehicle push.(Top Down (Cars))
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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Despite the sluggish economy that has sent General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy court this year, Nissan North America Inc. will move ahead with plans to launch its first line of commercial vehicles next year, company officials said.
The vehicles, beginning with a large van based on the Nissan Titan pickup chassis, will go on sale in the fourth quarter of 2010 and will be assembled at the company's plant in Canton, Miss., said Brian Carolin, Nissan's senior vice president for sales and marketing in North America.
Although overall auto sales are down about 35 percent this year, "we're holding our own," Carolin said during a media briefing at the ...