A strong case could be made for no foreign car maker having backed the UK automotive industry as strongly or over a longer period of time as Nissan has.
Not only does it have the mighty Sunderland plant, the annual output of which has regularly passed half a million cars, but also the Cranfield engineering centre and the Paddington design studio where many of its global hits, like the Nissan Qashqai and Nissan Juke, have originated.
