"Despite the headwinds, we have pulled ahead the recovery by one year," Gupta, who's leading the transformation, said during a video interview from Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. "We are much more ahead than what we said and that helped us in overcoming the headwinds of the pandemic in 2020."
Nissan Next is a combination of cost-cutting, product investment and cultural change following roughly two decades under Ghosn, who fled Japan to Lebanon in December 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct. The turnaround plan was announced by Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida as a roadmap to sustainable profitability to "compete effectively for the next decade."