Lookers has formally opened a brand new Nissan dealership in Sunderland following an in depth £1.8 million transformation of its former Ford web site on Newcastle Highway.

Lookers’ new Nissan franchised dealership incorporates a 12-car showroom, buyer lounge areas, EV charging factors, new workshops and a handover bay – all designed to supply clients with a premier retail and aftersales expertise. Round 35 workers are actually employed at Lookers’ latest franchise location.

The brand new Lookers Nissan dealership in Newcastle Highway has put in the brand new Nissan emblem signage – the model’s first fashion change in additional than twenty years.

The 27,000 sq. ft purpose-built showroom now showcases a variety of recent Nissan fashions, together with the brand new all-electric Nissan ARIYA, that includes cutting-edge design and highly effective electrical mobility, the Juke Hybrid and the British-built Qashqai.

Welcoming Lookers’ newest funding in Sunderland and within the Nissan model, Lookers’ franchise director Robert Dier, mentioned: “Sunderland is as soon as once more the beating coronary heart of Nissan’s UK manufacturing operations and we’re completely delighted to be investing domestically in a brand new state-of-the-art Nissan dealership in an unimaginable metropolis the place everybody can expertise this excellent automotive model’s fashion, innovation and concentrate on sustainable driving in an exemplar retail surroundings that clients will love.”

Lookers is at the moment creating a brand new £3.25 million dealership at Portland Highway in Newcastle which is on observe to open in 2024. Earlier this 12 months, Lookers additionally opened the doorways on a brand new £1 million dealership in close by Gateshead following related transformations in Chester and Carlisle in 2022.

Lookers’ chief working officer Duncan McPhee, mentioned the brand new dealership in Sunderland builds on its stable, strengthening ties with the Nissan model.

“Dedicated to being the UK’s primary alternative for all-electric driving, Lookers is delighted to be strengthening our partnership and we stay up for welcoming clients to our latest franchise dealership at Lookers Nissan Sunderland within the weeks and months forward.”

Grant Richards, nationwide community improvement supervisor at Nissan, mentioned: ‘‘This new showroom in Sunderland is actually spectacular and showcases our automobiles in precisely the correct approach. The workshop amenities are equally spectacular. We’re delighted with Lookers’ funding in our model, and we stay up for a shiny future collectively.

In June this 12 months, Nissan Sunderland’s manufacturing hub develop into the quickest UK automotive producer to succeed in 11 million automobiles, confirming its standing because the UK’s largest automotive producer by quantity with round 5 million components arriving on the plant per day.

Final month, Nissan and its companions introduced a £2 billion plan to construct three electrical automotive fashions at its Sunderland manufacturing facility. The Japanese agency will construct electrical Qashqai and Juke fashions on the plant alongside the subsequent era of the electrical Leaf, which is already produced there. 

Pictured on the official launch are Kevin Wardrop, operations director for Lookers VNR division and Billy Taylor, common supervisor, Nissan Sunderland.