Vehicles and components share between Mercedes and Renault-Nissan
- The Renault-Nissan and Mercedes groups have recently initiated a cooperation with the aim to jointly develop and produce new vehicles, platforms, engines and components:
- Production of the new Mercedes Citan (slightly modified version of the Renault Kangoo) in the Renault-Nissan’s plant in Maubeuge, France,
- Production of the 1.5 DCI diesel engine, designed by Renault and then mounted on the recent Mercedes Class A vehicles,
- Components share between the future Renault Twingo and future Smart, respectively produced at Novo Mesto (Slovenia)and Hambach(France) in 2014,
- Use of a Mercedes platform for the future Renault Laguna
- This cooperation between the two groups might still increase:
- Both companies plan to cooperate to design and produce a large utility vehicle. This future utility vehicle will be positioned between the Vito and the Sprinter within the Mercedes range and produced in a Renault plant in France: Sandouville(where the current Renault Traffic is produced), or Batilly(current production site of Renault Master).
- Another vehicle would be considered in 2017: a Sport Utility Vehicle, based on the Renault Captur and which would be positioned, below the GLA and GLK SUVwithin the Mercedes range, This new vehicle would be produced in Valladolid, alongside Captur.
- Because the Mercedes capacities in Europe are quite full up and conversely Renault have available capacities, both groups find here a short-term response to optimize their production tooling.
Data source: File #101 - Worldwide production detailed by models
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