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The Qashqai has been made at the Sunderland, Tyne and Wear plant since December 2006, occupying the production line previously occupied by the Almera. Its launch also coincided with the withdrawal of the Primera from the UK market due to low sales.
This left the company with no direct successor to the Almera or Primera on the UK market, with the "supermini MPV" Note being sold as an indirect successor to the Almera, and the Qashqai as a successor to the Primera.
This move was seen as controversial, but in time appears to have paid off as the Qashqai has proved a major sales success in the United Kingdom, with more than 39,000 sales in 2010 making it the tenth best selling new car in Britain - the first Nissan to make the top 10 in Britain since the Sunny in 1983. But its sales success has been dampened by stories of unreliability.The lack of a conventional alternative on the United Kingdom market could soon be solved, according to an Autocar article in September 2012, by the launch of the Nissan Tiida (which had already directly replaced the Almera in other markets) in the near future, although it has yet to be confirmed whether this will happen.In 2012, its sixth year on sale in the United Kingdom, sales exceeded 45,000 to make it the sixth best selling car there that year.
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