Nissan's hearing that great sucking sound coming from the large light-truck market in the US, and is responding by trying to suck up widening inventory. With thousands of its largest vehicles — the Titan pickup and Armada and Infiniti QX56 SUVs — sitting unsold, the company is cutting production in the US plants that build them. According to The Detroit News the company reduced output of the Titan last month by 29 percent, to 5,680 vehicles — a long sight from the 8,000 the company had expected to produce — the Armada by 11 percent and the QX56 by 10 percent, and Nissan is sitting on nearly 90 days' worth of trucks, according to a company exec. Sources say the company's been drunk dialing all week, trying to get the market to come back, but that the market has rebuffed its advances, indicating it has "moved on."
Nissan cuts SUV, truck production [The Detroit News]
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