DETROIT — Nissan Motor Co.’s arch executive pronounced a association believes it will need to build a new plant in a U.S. in 4 or 5 years, when a automobile builder would be prepared for another pull to expand.
Normally, that plant would be built in any of a Nafta countries, “but in a stream conditions we are some-more prone to deposit in a U.S.,” pronounced Hiroto Saikawa, Nissan’s arch executive, during a Detroit automobile show.
President Donald Trump has pressured Japanese automobile makers to build factories in a U.S. Last year, Trump tweeted “no way” to Toyota Motor Corp.’s plants to import Corollas to a U.S. from an under-construction plant in Guanajuato, Mexico. Last week, Toyota Motor Corp.
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and Mazda Motor Corp.
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pronounced they would build a $1.6 billion plant in Huntsville, Ala. Toyota’s plant in Guanajuato will furnish Tacoma pickup trucks, while a Alabama plant will concentration on newcomer cars.
Nissan’s
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devise comes as it eases off a U.S. marketplace after years of fast expansion. Sales have grown to around 1.5 million units, from one million units in 2011. That expansion helped Nissan hit, and exceed, a aim for U.S. marketplace share, though it came during a responsibility of a distinction goals.
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