Nissan Motor is to continue production cuts at US assembly plants indefinitely, Japanese officials said.


The plants in Tennessee and Mississippi reduced production from five to four days a week last October as the credit crisis in North America worsened, Kyodo News reported.


Nissan North America’s manufacturing spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.


Along with other automakers, both domestic and foreign, Nissan has been scaling back North American production as demand for larger vehicles, in particular, has fallen.


It eliminated a truck night shift at its Smyrna, Tennessee, plant last August and has offered staff both there and at the Decherd engine plant a variety of voluntary departure options available in the 2008-2010 financial years.

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Smyrna makes Altima and Maxima sedans, Frontier pickup trucks and the Xterra and Pathfinder SUVs. The Canton plant in Mississippi also builds the Altima plus Quest minivans, Armada and Infiniti QX56 large SUVs and full-size Titan pickup trucks.