Nissan has bigger plans for Miss. plant

0 Comments | USA TODAY, April, 2008 | by James R. Healey

Nissan says it will stop making the Quest minivan and its two full-size SUVs, the Nissan Armada and Infiniti QX56, at its Canton, Miss., factory and use it to make "light commercial vehicles" starting in the first quarter of 2010.

The automaker did not say when or where -- or if -- it will build next-generation versions of the minivan and big SUVS, which are slow sellers in declining market segments, when the plant switches to the unspecified commercial trucks.

"The decision has not been finalized. The intention is to continue them, but we don't know where we will manufacture them," Nissan spokeswoman Frederique Le Greves said Monday.

"When we get to the end of each vehicle's cycle, we look at the market" and decide the fate of each vehicle, she...