Nissan Magnite: 100 winners announced, 1 winner to get Magnite free

Nissan Magnite has become so popular in the market that there is a waiting period of months on the car. To keep the customers engaged, Nissan announced Valentine’s Day program for the customers who have booked the vehicle and are waiting for the delivery in February. Nissan has now announced 100 winners of the contest and one of them will get the car for free.

As per Nissan’s announcement, Mr Sourabh Bhattacharya, who is a resident of Ghaziabad, UP will receive 100% cashback on his all-new Nissan Magnite. Mr Prem Singh Harivanshi from Ashta (M.P.), Mr Raman Singh from Bareilly, Mr Ganesh Doiphode from Aurangabad, Mr Basant Kumar Bansal from Mohali, Mr Gokulanath Jayakumar from Bangalore, Mr Mohsin Shareef from Rangareddy (Telengana), Mr After Ahmed Shaik from Hyderabad and Mr Manda Brahmananda Rao from West Godavari, have won a complimentary upgrade by one variant. The rest of the winners are listed on the Nissan India website. Every month, for the next few months, 100 waiting customers of the all-new Nissan Magnite will win. Here are the details of what the winners will get.

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• 1 customer – 100% cashback of ex-showroom price
• 8 customers – upgrade by one variant
• 25 customers – 1-year extended warranty
• 66 customers – 2 years/20K km maintenance package

Rakesh Srivastava, Managing Director, Nissan Motor India.

“The all-new Nissan Magnite has received an overwhelming response and customers are eagerly waiting to drive the Big, Bold, Beautiful and ‘Carismatic’ SUV. Congratulations to all the 100 winners of the Valentines program, which makes their wait worthwhile”

Nissan has also expressed that they are working to sort out the semiconductor shortage in the industry. This is one of the main reasons for the rise in the waiting period increase. Nissan India has even started its third shift by hiring around 1,000 employees in its plant and about 500+ employees are employed by the dealership network across India.

Nissan Magnite starts from Rs. 5.49 lakhs ex-showroom now, instead of the initial introductory price of Rs. 4.99 lakhs ex-showroom. Nissan has not yet hiked the prices of other variants. Nissan Magnite is currently offered with a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated petrol engine and a 1.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine. The naturally aspirated petrol engine produces a maximum power of 72 PS and 96 Nm of peak torque. It is only offered with a 5-speed manual gearbox. The turbocharged petrol engine produces 99 PS of max power and 160 Nm of peak torque. It is offered with a 5-speed manual gearbox or a CVT automatic transmission.  It is based on the CMF-A+ platform that also underpins the Renault Kiger and the Renault Triber.

The Magnite is the brand’s first sub-4m compact SUV that is based on the modified version of the CMF-A+ platform. The Magnite offers a few first-in-segment features that set it apart from all other cars in the segment. To start with, the Magnite gets a 360-degree camera, which is not available with any other car in the segment. The system can also activate the right or left camera while parking. The Magnite offers the sleekest headlamps in the segment with LED lamps. However, the rear lamps are halogen lamps and not LED.

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