While I was on a tour in Nissan's Smyrna, Tennessee plant today, I read the following press release on their buletin board, and also confirmed it on Nissan-Global website. My hands are shaking as I'm writing this.

In Japan, February registrations fell 15.8% year-on-year to 68,129 units. Although sales of the new Serena minivan and Bluebird Sylphy sedan were strong, slower sales of the Note compact car and the Lafesta minivan, which were both introduced last fiscal year, weighed on overall output. Nissan’s share of the newly registered vehicle market in February fell 3.3 percentage points from a year earlier to 19.3%.

Including minivehicles, Nissan’s domestic sales in February dropped 7.5% to 83,182 units. The new model Moco, launched at the beginning of February, recorded particularly healthy sales, rising 39.4% year-on-year to 8,820 units. Nissan’s market share for February, including minivehicles, stood at 15.6%, down 1.4 percentage points from the previous year.

In the US, Nissan sales rose 2.2% year-on-year to 84,241 units, a record for the month of February. Nissan channel sales rose 3.3% year-on-year to 74,997 units, thanks to the strong performance of the Murano crossover SUV and the Sentra compact sedan. Do to very poor sales of the Xterra, the SUV will no longer be in production, with 2007 year being the last. The Xterra will be substituted with the All New to the U.S. market, X-Trail. Infiniti channel sales fell 5.5% to 9,244 units, due to slower sales of Infiniti G35 (Skyline in Japan).

Sales in Canada in February fell 13.0% to 4,017 units. Mexican sales also fell, dropping 2.8% to 18,337 units.

In Europe, sales amounted to 33,817 units in February, down 2.1% year-on-year, amid slower sales of the Pickup.
Go figure, :dontknow: I could've sworn that the Xterra was here to stay. I noticed that the sales around here were a bit slow, but never thought that they would just pull it out production....I'm gonna go hug my truck[/b]

Kind of a bummer but you had to figure they had to be phased out at some time with rising gas prices.

Looks like you're a day early for an April Fool's joke... Please try again next year.

OK, to verify what you were saying, I pulled up a press release from nissan-global.com and the same paragraph now reads:

Note there is no longer any statement about the end of Xterra production.

Link to full article.

Doh!

Oh, I now have a collectors item, eh?

Smells like an early April's fools joke to me.

Do to very poor sales of the Xterra

Uh, that should be "Due to..." Don't think a corporate news bulletin would make such a mistake.

Ain't foolin' me!



Nice try though...

I hate gags that sound almost authentic, because you're not quite sure if its a joke or for real.

I drove the X-Trail in January when I was in Germany. (Europcar rental in Mannheim)
Slightly smaller than the Xterra...more like a giant Rav 4. I didn't know the X sales were that bad?
...er..a ...no mention of X-Trail replacing Xterra in the link above. :rolleyes:

Not even A BIT funny.....

Um yeah... hoser!

OMG>>>>

I am gonna sell it since I wont be able to get parts



:p

DUDE! It's not even April 1st yet!!! Geez.

Now, if they want to introdue the Patrol in the US, I might be interested!

For some reason that statement is missing now. hmmmmm

Behold, the beauty of Google...

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/02/01/209066.html

Where do we get these people?