- Renault ultimately decided to do without its partner Daimler for its future top-end vehicles, particularly the future Espace (2014) and Laguna (2016) models. It is a Nissan platform which was chosen for developing the two new models that will be produced at Douai.

- In its range of vehicles, the Renault-Nissan group have D and E segment platforms, used in particular by Infiniti, the group’s top-end brand.These platforms may provide a response to Renault’s demand, like Samsung managed to do in the past with the Fluence, Koleos and Latitude vehicles.

- In the D and E segments, decade after decade, Renault has seen its production gradually decrease down to a level which is now too small to say. Consequently, fewer than 30 000 units of the Laguna are produced each year (as opposed to 100 000 in 2007 and 250 000 in 2002). Only the Espace model continues to be produced by the manufacturer in the E segment, although also in very small quantities.

- The ambition for the future top-end vehicle, based on a Nissan platform, will be to increase Renault’s sales volumes in the D and E segments, particularly in China, where Renault previously had a low profile due to the Renault-Nissan group’s agreements.