Nissan March/Micra

The bright green car you see before you is the latest Nissan Micra – known as the Nissan March in Japan and Thailand – and it’s a new supermini that will be sold in 160 countries worldwide and built in at least four different factories.

Underneath is Nissan’s all-new V-platform, and it’s a set of underpinnings that will not only provide the basis for the Micra/March supermini, but also a Micra saloon (arriving in 2011, but not coming to Europe) and an MPV replacement for the Note (that we’ll see in Europe come 2012). Nissan hopes to build one million V-based vehicles a year when all three models are on sale.

To begin with the March/Micra supermini will be built in four plants across the world: China, Mexico, India – which will supply the UK now that the more profitable Juke is being produced in Sunderland – and Thailand. And it’s to Thailand that CAR has just been to drive the new Micra in Thai-spec March guise. Read on for our first impressions of the new Nissan Micra (March).

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