Renault-Daimler may share US production eventually

I watched the press conference this morning. Could be good, if they can make it work without diluting the Mercedes brand. Could be bad, if consumers begin to think of lower end Mercedes as reskinned Renault/Nissan/Infinitis.

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DETROIT, April 7 (Reuters) - The hookup of Renault (RENA.PA), Nissan (7201.T) and Daimler (DAIGn.DE) may eventually bring production sharing at U.S. plants, but evidence of the alliance will not be immediately obvious to U.S. consumers, leaders of the companies said on Wednesday.

Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of Daimler, and Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Renault and Nissan, indicated there are no plans to alter their U.S. dealerships as a result of the alliance announced in Japan and Europe earlier on Wednesday. [ID:nLDE6361D5]

"As Nissan has a number of plants in the U.S. and so does Mercedes-Benz, we certainly can envision opportunities for some cross-sharing of existing capacities.

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Renault-Daimler may share US production eventually

from what I read, they´re looking at cooperation in the Smart segment more than at the Mercedes brand :)

Renault will be sent packing if they bring the same quality of crap they USED to sell in North America...

Yet more American xenophobia! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Alfa Fan

Yet more American xenophobia! :rolleyes:

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Please explain. No one here (that I noticed) said anything suggesting xenophobia.

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Originally Posted by Alfa Fan

Yet more American xenophobia! :rolleyes:

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It has to be said, the products were pretty diabolical at the time...

Renaults are still terrible. The last generation of Scenics, Lagunas, Megane's and Espace's all fell apart after a year. The Clio is the only car they can build properly.

As others have said, Renno's aren't really that well built. Like the Fiat's of the 90's and earlier this decade their reputation is justified.....

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Originally Posted by Daniel

As others have said, Renno's aren't really that well built. Like the Fiat's of the 90's and earlier this decade their reputation is justified.....

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The Renault dealer really tried to rip off my mum after her Scenics MOT. They said it needed £3,000 quids worth of work to pass (on a car that is 5 years old). Our local garage did it for £30!!!

After the car passed its MOT the Renault chief mechanic asked where we got it fixed. We explained that our local garge did it for £30 and he tried to claim that their price was justified due to the skill of the Renault mechanics and state of the art equipment they had. He said 'taking that car to local garage is like taking a Ferrari to a Ford garge'.

He backed down when we explained the local garage specialises in Jaguar, Rolls Royce and Bentley! :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Renaults are still terrible. The last generation of Scenics, Lagunas, Megane's and Espace's all fell apart after a year. The Clio is the only car they can build properly.

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my scénic is still fine after almost 10 years :)

I´m just back from a 4 week long product launch event at Monteblanco near Seville and I had to :laugh: at the brand-xenophobes in our ranks - plenty of them as we were mostly germans :p - ...
of the several vehicles I was running in my module (Audi TTRS, Scirocco R, Focus RS, Alfa Brera, Mégane RS and BMW M3), only one brand survived the whole 4 weeks of being mistreated without a single problem: the Renaults :D