Nissan sold 23,243 Rogues in June, up 54 percent from June 2014.
NASHVILLE — Nissan’s red-hot U.S. sales of its compact Rogue crossover are roiling global factory production.
The automaker said today that next year its plant in Kyushu, Japan, will begin building up to 100,000 Rogues annually for the U.S. market.
The move will spell the end of the Rogue Select, the lower-priced “last generation” trim package of the vehicle. When Nissan introduced the current generation of the Rogue in late 2013, built for the first time in the United States, it retained a limited flow of previous-generation Rogues from Kyushu to satisfy price-sensitive U.S. shoppers.
Now U.S. demand is pulling Kyushu into full-fledged support of the current generation.
Nissan sold 23,243 Rogues in June, up 54 percent from June 2014. For the first six months of this year, Rogue sales are up 36 percent to 135,397.
Summarizing the Rogue’s performance in June, Fred Diaz, Nissan senior vice president for U.S. sales & marketing and operations, said: “We haven’t hit the ceiling yet. We have more opportunity there if we can get our dealers more.”
The Kyushu solution for 100,000 Rogues a year is on top of 120,000 Rogues a year streaming out of Nissan’s Smyrna, Tenn., factory. In addition, as many as 80,000 more are scheduled to come from a Renault factory in South Korea.
That is three times the volume potential that Nissan originally anticipated for the crossover when it decided to move production to the United States back in 2011. At that time, Nissan assumed a factory capacity of 100,000-120,000 vehicles a year would suffice.
You can reach Lindsay Chappell at lchappell@crain.com.
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