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In recent years, MPV has received very high attention in the domestic market. In the MPV field, Japanese have always been professionals. Toyota introduced the fourth-generation race to domestic production last year. FAW Toyota Granvia is not far from the official release. Honda also "renovated" both Odyssey and Elysen last year. Among the top three Japanese teams, only is Nissan is slightly quieter. Perhaps you still remember the 100,000 NV200 with side sliding doors, and you will not forget the Guishi that once matched Alpha . Now that Guishi has completely stopped production, you can only see Elgrand, which is on the same platform as the fourth generation Guishi in the Japanese market. It is reported that Elgrand will be introduced to China, and Guishi will appear in people's sight again in another form. In this article, I will take you to review Guishi models of all dynasties. This MPV also had great attention back then.
First generation Guishi (V40 1993)
The first generation Guishi was first born in A cooperation agreement reached between Ford and Nissan North America in 1987. The two car companies cooperated to develop a model positioned as a minivan segment (literal translation: minivan, also known as van, the corresponding classification of the European market is MPV). In 1993, Nissan Quest and Mercury Villager (Mercury is a brand under Ford) were born. The two cars were based on the VX54 platform jointly created by Ford and Nissan.
The first generation of Guishi was not introduced to China, but its CKD version appeared in Guangzhou in southern my country. CKD is the abbreviation of "CompletelyKnockedDown". In layman's terms, it means disassembling the vehicle and assembling it in China. Guangdong Bus Factory and Guangzhou Jing'an Yunbao have CKD assembled Guishi and Mercury Villager. If you are interested, you can check it. Since there are too few pictures and information on the Internet, we will not introduce it more.
The second generation of Guishi (V41 1999)
Nissan Guishi and Mercury Villager attacked, occupying a certain share of the North American market. However, compared with the local American competitors, there is still a big gap. In 1997, Toyota Race was born, replacing Previa and becoming a new competitor of Guishi. But it has to be said that the birth of is phenomenal. Once it debuted, it defeated Guishi in sales performance. Even Mercury Villager and Guishi are not its one. In 1999, Nissan launched the second-generation Guishi, which, like the previous generation model, shared the same platform with Mercury Villager.
The cooperation between Ford and Nissan should have been a win-win situation, but it has to be said that the two are not very concerned about Guishi. From a research and development perspective, the VX54 platform is only a modified version of the Nissan Maxima chassis, and the upgrade of the second-generation model is not obvious enough, which makes Guishi not outstanding in the market performance in the 1990s. Such a two-car strategy has made Nissan choose and choose, and Nissan is also facing a financial crisis.
First generation and second generation | The efficacy of cooperative products is generally
Third generation Guishi (V42 2004)
On the eve of the millennium, Nissan has been making losses for many years. On May 28, 1999, Renault acquired 36.8% stake in Nissan Motor for US$5.4 billion (400 yen per share), becoming the company's largest shareholder and officially formed the Renault-Nissan Alliance . At the same time, Nissan and Ford terminated the joint venture agreement, and the third-generation Guishi was independently developed by Nissan.
The sales performance of the third generation of Guishi was pretty good in the early stage, but in the subsequent competition, Guishi was not more popular as local players, and the product's final sales declined sharply.
The fourth generation of Guishi (RE52 2011)
7 years have passed. Although the third generation of Guishi has not been able to maintain high sales, it is considered to be the most classic generation model. Considering the integration of the car model, the fourth-generation Guishi and the third-generation Elgrand (abandon the rear-wheel drive platform) share Nissan's new front-wheel drive platform - D platform.The fourth-generation Guishi was officially launched in 2011. Although it still has strong product power, it eventually went to discontinuation...
The fourth-generation Guishi's performance was not very good, and its sales in the North American market have been declining after its launch. Since 2014, Guishi has successively withdrawn from the markets of Canada, the United States, China and other countries. One reason that affects Guishi's sales is that its 25% bias collision in the IIHS crash test was evaluated by "poor", and some industry insiders were disappointed with Guishi's performance in the crash test. In the final analysis, Nissan attaches far less importance to MPV than Liangda. After losing the US market, Guishi also left people's vision.
Editor's comment: While writing this article, Lantu Dreamer is officially launched. Whether it is the popularity of the Sina, the consolidation of GL8, the Odysseys, or the new energy star in the MPV industry led by Dreamers, the Chinese market has a growing demand for MPV. People seem to have forgotten the Guishi who has been discontinued for many years, but Nissan has loyal users that are not inferior to the Liangtian. Perhaps the resurrection of Guishi will start from the Chinese market. You have reason to believe that the success of models such as Odyssey and Alpha can also be learned from Nissan.
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