To fill the newly created position of adviser for competitive assessment and quality, Nissan North America has hired David Champion, formerly the senior director of Consumer Reports? auto test center. The appointment takes effect on Sept. 10, Nissan noted in a media release on Wednesday.
Mr. Champion, who worked at the consumer magazine?s testing headquarters in East Haddam, Conn., will be based at Nissan?s proving grounds in Stanfield, Ariz. Among other purposes, the 3,050-acre site is being used to refine the NV200 van, which is scheduled to be phased into the New York taxi fleet starting late next year.
Though no stranger to the industry side of the car business, Mr. Champion is best known as the public face of automotive evaluations for Consumer Reports. The publication?s annual Top Picks issue and results from its Auto Reliability Survey are closely watched bellwethers of automaker strength throughout the industry.
In the release, Nissan noted that Mr. Champion worked for the automaker in 1994-97 as a quality assurance engineer. Previously, he directed the creation of testing facilities in North America for Land Rover.
A Briton, Mr. Champion holds degrees from Aston University in Birmingham, England.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: August 22, 2012
A previous version of this post had stated that David Champion worked for Land Rover after working for Nissan, not before coming to Nissan.
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