{"id":8388,"date":"2016-02-18T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2016-02-18T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:59:45","slug":"nissan-primastar-replacement-will-be-renault-built-nv300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/8388","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Primastar replacement will be Renault-built NV300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nissan-nv300-badge-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Nissan NV300 badge\" width=\"250\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nissan-nv300-badge-sm.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/nissan-nv300-badge-sm-50x26.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The Nissan-Renault alliance has been a fruitful one in recent years. The outgoing Nissan Primastar van was a re-badged Renault Trafic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to find that the Primastar&#8217;s replacement, the NV300, will be built by Renault and based on the same platform as the new Trafic.<\/p>\n<p>Renault confirmed yesterday that the new NV300, which will go on sale later this year, will be built at Renault&#8217;s Sandoubille plant in France on the same line as the new Renault Trafic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8390\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8390\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/renault-trafic-sandouville-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Renault's Sandouville plant\" width=\"550\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/renault-trafic-sandouville-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/renault-trafic-sandouville-sm-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/renault-trafic-sandouville-sm-50x42.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renault Trafic vans being built at the firm&#8217;s Sandouville plant in France. The Nissan NV300 will be built on the same line as the Trafic.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The NV300 nameplate is no surprise, given the existence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6671\">smaller NV200 and larger NV400<\/a>. NV stands for Nissan Van is part of the companies new global naming policy. Nissan trucks will be badged NT. Nissan pick-ups, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/8004\">new NP300 Navara<\/a>, are now badged NP.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone thinking that the partnership between Renault and Nissan is somewhat one-sided may be mistaken, however. The new Nissan NP300 Navara is expected to go on sale as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7788\">the Renault Alaskan<\/a> pick up later in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault and Nissan have confirmed that Nissan&#8217;s new NV300 van will be built on the same line as the Renault Trafic at the French firm&#8217;s Sandouville plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[492,1989,582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}