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No local car brand has a legacy in compact bakkies like Nissan. The Japanese company can claim to have rightfully established the local compact bakkie market with its original B120 in 1976, followed by the legendary Nissan 1400.
Despite positioning itself as the 1400's successor, the NP200 has never quite garnered the same loyalty or cachet. Still, in a market where all rivals exited or were discontinued, the Nissan compact bakkie legacy continued with the NP200, until now.
Much bakkie grief-mongering has happened since Nissan’s announcement that the NP200 will no longer be produced in Rosslyn. That means South Africa will lose its last remaining compact bakkie. A market which was once thousands of units a month strong, with models such as the 1400, Corsa, Bantam and Strada, has narrowed to nothing.
