Nissan Juke joins Qashqai, Micra and Primera in the ‘Million in Sunderland’ Club

The Nissan Juke is the latest model from Nissan’s Sunderland Plant to hit the million produced milestone, joining the Qashqai, Micra and Primera.

It’s more than thirty years since Nissan hit the ground running as a UK car maker, with its Sunderland Plant built on the site of a former RAF base and bringing much needed employment to an area of the UK in much need of jobs.

Fast forward thirty years and Nissan is now building around 500,0000 cars a year in Sunderland (second only to JLR in UK car production) and has built millions of cars including the Qashqai (more than three million), Micra (2.4m) and Primera (1.5m). And now the Nissan Juke breaks the million cars produced milestone at Sunderland.

The Nissan Juke arrived eight years ago and almost single handedly created a niche for funky (perhaps ‘Fugly) small urban warrior SUVs, still selling well with around 95,000 Juke sale in Europe in 2017.

Neatly coinciding with the arrival of a revised Juke earlier this year, the millionth Juke has now rolled off the production line in Sunderland with, appropriately, a new Vivid Blue paint job – the Juke’s newest colour option – and the bells and whistles Tekna grade trim.

Kevin Fitzpatrick, Nissan GB’s Manufacturing Senior VP, said:

Eight years ago we had never seen anything like the Juke before – it created an entirely new segment and brought a distinctive never-seen-before look to the market. Fast forward to today and we have one million customers and Juke remains the segment leader.

It’s terrific to see that the 2018 model, with all its improvements and personalisation options, is as popular as the version that rolled off the line for the first time in 2010.