EVENT: Nissan Staff Day at Nissan Technical Centre, Bedford
Client: Nissan UK
Location: Nissan Technical Centre, Bedford, UK
Date: 17th September 2023
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On Sunday 17th September we were hired to provide entertainment for the Nissan Staff/Open Day for Nissan at the Nissan Technical Centre (NTC) in Bedford, UK. We used our Nissan GTR and Formula E Cars on one of our large digital Scalextric tracks.
We ran a ‘Fastest Lap of the day’ competition. Lots of fun was had with a lot of young excited slot racers, who particularly liked crashing lol. Some how we only had 3 cars die in the 6 hours of back-to-back non-stop racing.
Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE) is Nissan’s centre of excellence for the design and development of vehicles manufactured across Nissan’s European production plants. A central player in Nissan’s global operations, NTCE has helped take Nissan’s market position to new levels with the development of next-generation vehicles that deliver unique and innovative engineering solutions that maintain the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
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Powered by a team of highly skilled engineers and researchers, NTCE sits at the crossroads of Nissan’s new product development process, transforming clay model concepts into production reality. Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE) is responsible for the development of some of Europe’s most popular electric and crossover vehicles. It handles the production preparation of all Nissan models built at plants in the UK and throughout mainland Europe. NTCE’s home has always been Cranfield in Central Bedfordshire, a place it has helped make synonymous with advanced engineering and technical innovation.
When global car maker Nissan established its purpose-built European Technical Centre in Central Bedfordshire in 1991, the company hadn’t long been manufacturing cars for the European market at its production plant in Sunderland. The Centre’s new home, Cranfield Technology Park, was effectively a greenfield site and the automotive industry landscape was very different to what it is today. Diesel-engine cars were unusual, and all-electric or hybrid-engine cars were far from being considered as viable propositions. How dramatically things have changed in the ensuing decades, and how much more dramatically things are going to change in the decades to come.
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