Micra convoy head to ExCel

By Stephen Dobie

17th July 2008

It’ll be Micras to the max this Monday! A 25-strong motorcade of Nissan’s baby will be travelling the 300-mile journey from the company’s UK plant in Sunderland to London’s ExCeL arena for the British International Motor Show.

They leave the North East on July 21 at 9am, with arrival at ExCeL due around 4pm. The cars will each be a brightly decorated and numbered, celebrating 25 years of the Micra model. It has been made exclusively in
Sunderland since 1992, with 2.2 million produced, and exports to 44 different countries. It was the first Japanese-brand car to be crowned European car of the year, in 1993.

To celebrate the car’s quarter century, Nissan has produced a special edition to be shown at the motor show, which opens on July 22. It boasts Night Shade exterior paint and satin effect door handles, as well as an
in-built and customised iPod Nano.

The next generation Micra is moving for manufacture in India, with a sub-Qashqai SUV filling its space on the UK production lines.