Nissan U.S. January sales fall 7.3 percent

DETROIT - Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday that its U.S. sales fell 7.3 percent in January.

Sales for Nissan-brand vehicles fell 7.8 percent to 67,961 vehicles, while sales for the automaker's luxury Infiniti unit fell 3.6 percent to 8,644 vehicles from a year earlier, Nissan said. (Reporting by David Bailey, editing by Leslie Gevirtz)