Ecocar showdown
The Nissan March has met its first match, the Honda Brio. Which one's better? Published: 6/06/2011 at 12:00 AM
Bangkok Post: Newspaper section: Life Nissan played the cards quite nicely when it rolled out the country's first Ecocar, knowing that Honda would have been the second player to follow suit with an eco-friendly car.
Now that B-segment hatchbacks ranging from the Honda Jazz to the Ford Fiesta are busy attracting buyers with some 600,000-700,000 baht in their pockets, it's only wise to move below that price bracket with A-segment alternatives.
But Nissan didn't exactly do that. Rather, it took the March (generally labelled as a B-segment car in world markets), took advantage of Ecocar promotional privileges and priced the five-door hatchback in the 400,000-500,000 baht sector.
Before the birth of the March, the smallest car Nissan had in its Thai lineup was the Tiida, which Nissan considers more of a contender, if not exactly, for the C-segment.
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A very intersting comparison between both cars, today this category is taking very important part because of the ever increasing fuel costs and city populations around the world more people are choosing to downgrade their big and non fuel economy cars for smaller cars category, cheaper maintenance and many of these cars are comfortable and convenience.