By Kevin McCauley
David Champion, key spokesperson for automobile quality ratings at Consumer Reports, is returning to Nissan on Sept. 10.
Champion |
The former head of the consumer product watchdog’s auto test center in East Haddam, Conn., will be based at the Japanese automaker’s proving grounds in Stanfield, Ariz. That site is where the NV200 van, which will join NYC’s taxi fleet this year, has been tested.
Champion, who is British, was a quality assurance engineer at Nissan from 1994 to 1997, working to identify and correct customer “dissatisfiers,” said Nissan’s release.
Earlier, he was a principal engineer at Land Rover of North America, establishing remote test facilities in the U.S. and Canada.
Champion will report to Steve Monk, director-vehicle evaluation/testing and chief marketability engineer for Nissan Technical Center North America.
He also will work with Carla Bailo, senior VP-R&D, on customer satisfaction matters. |