Nissan Sunderland Plant is celebrating its ten millionth vehicle off the production line.
This makes Nissan Sunderland Plant the fastest car factory in the UK to hit ten million mark at 33 years. On average, a new car is built every two minutes in Sunderland since production started in 1986.
“Building ten million vehicles is a tremendous achievement for everyone associated with the plant,” Nissan Sunderland plant vice president Steve Marsh says.
If all ten million vehicles were parked nose to tail they would stretch for more than 42,000km, enough to stretch around the globe.
The ten millionth car was a vivid blue Nissan Qashqai Tekna, complete with ProPilot technology, which controls the steering, acceleration and braking in a single lane on highways during traffic congestion and high-speed cruising.
The Qashqai is the most produced model at the plant, contributing 3.4 million to the overall 10 million. Micra is the second most produced, contributing 2.4 million.
Qashqai is one of the three models currently made at the plant, alongside the electric Nissan Leaf and Juke.
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