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Magnite in India and the carmaker has already racked up over 50,000 bookings for the sub-compact SUV. Nissan has seen an overwhelming demand for the Magnite in India, thanks to it s fantastic pricing and excellent value proposition. The company says that almost 60% of all bookings received are for the top-spec variants - XV and XV Premium - with up to 15% bookings having been made for the CVT variants. Nissan have so far delivered over 10,000 units of the Magnite. Naturally, there s a huge gap between demand and supply, which has led to unusually high waiting periods.
Nissan is currently operating in three shifts at it s Oragadam plant in Tamil Nadu, manufacturing just over 2700 units a month. The company aims to increase production capacity to around 3,500 units a month by July to bring down the waiting period. That said, these plans could be challenged by way of global shortage of semiconductor chips or shortage in terms of components as well as the worsening Covid-19 situatio