Nissan, Hinduja Defiance Tech Working On Small Car

By Ganesh

Hinduja Group's partnership with Nissan Motor Company extends beyond its commercial vehicles brand Ashok Leyland. TOI reports that the Group's engineering services arm, Defiance Technologies is also working with Nissan towards developing a small car. The confirmation comes straight from Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman, Ashok Leyland, who stated the same to the news daily during an interview.

Hinduja did make it clear that Ashok Leyland is no way involved in the direct development of the small car in question and will stay clear of Nissan's domain. AL's efforts will only remain towards its existing commercial vehicles business and it will continue to develop and expand it with the help of Nissan.

Ashok Leyland revealed the Stile this week, an MPV that is based on the Nissan NV200 aka Evalia. The Stile, once again, will primarily be targeted towards private passenger vehicle operators and for other commercial purposes and not as a passenger car.

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"Our core focus is on commercial vehicles including light commercial vehicles (LCVs). The work that Defiance is doing (on the small car) is purely for Nissan. We have expanded our range into adjacent segments like the construction equipment business with John Deere and the financing company which we have restarted apart from Defiance, which is an IT and engineering company. We will try to grow the defence sector as well where we are a major provider of vehicles but we are not going to get into cars ourselves. We will, however, have more passenger applications on commercial vehicle platforms - Stile upwards - like a microbus for example," TOI quotes Hinduja as saying.

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Article Published On: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 12:23 [IST]
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