Later in the year, the Russian Almera sedan will also suffer.
Let’s take a look at the Pulsar. Nissan has pulled the model from European markets. The production of the Euro-spec five-door hatchback was stopped quietly in June in response to “a rapidly increasing shift by European customers from traditional car segments to crossovers.”
The original goal was to achieve 64,000 units per year, but according to JATO Dynamics sales figures, the Japanese automaker only managed to move 25,221 cars last fiscal year. The Pulsar was built in Barcelona and failed to compete against the top names in the segment, namely the Volkswagen Golf Golf, Ford Focus Ford Megane, Renault Megane Honda Civic and the Skoda Octavia. The Chinese market will continue to sell the Pulsar as the Tiida.
The Almera sedan, which is only available in Russia, will be discontinued by Nissan. This news is not the best. Despite being the company’s most popular model with 46,225 sales in 2014, its popularity has declined over the years. Nissan is now deciding to discontinue the Almera sedan. Due to low sales, the model currently being produced in Togliatti by Renault-owned AvtoVAZ will be discontinued later in the year.
It effectively means that Nissan has ended production of the Pulsar hatchback as well as the Russia-only Almera sedan. This is if we do not include the purely electric Leaf.