- In 2014, the Renault-Nissan group first met and exceeded 8 million vehicles produced and sold a year (an increase of 2% compared to 2013).

- But all of the Group's brands did not met the same success: Nissan (+ 3% to 4.7 million units), Renault (+ 3% to 2 million units), Dacia (+ 5% to 541 638 units) and Infiniti (+ 12% to 161 108 units) rose. Lada (- 11% to 448 114 units) and Samsung (-9% to 196 189 units) declined. The new Datsun brand (23 692 units) was only launched in 2014.

- Since 2005, the main progression of the Renault-Nissan group is to be awarded to the Dacia brand (+ 218% since 2005). It now represents 6.7% of group's sales. However, the Dacia-badged models in Europe are also sold under the Renault label in other geographical areas (South America mainly). Thus, a range called "Entry" is shared between Dacia and Renault brands worldwide. The Entry range in 2014 represented 14.5% of all sales of the Renault-Nissan group, against 2.7% in 2005.
The Entry range, based initially on the B0 platform, has since 2012 been based on a modified platform called M0.

- The Logan, the first model of the Entry range is the third most manufactured vehicle in 2014 (288 000 units). The model that has increased the most in the past two years in this range is the Sandero (326 000 units), but the Duster remains the best-selling model (384 000 units).

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- The GM Group announced it had sold 2.4 million vehicles worldwide in the first quarter of 2015, representing an increase of 2% compared to the first quarter of 2014. GM's global growth is slightly stronger than that recorded by all manufacturers (+ 1.7%).

- Its sales rose by 9% in China (961 000 units) and 6% in the US (648 000 units). Over the same period, the GM group registered a decline in sales in Russia (-XX%), Brazil (-XX%) and Argentina (-XX%) who have seen their markets collapse. Sales in South America also dropped by 15% over this period.

- In Europe (29  countries), the situation is mixed. Indeed, the Opel brand saw sales increase by 7%, but this increase was not sufficient to compensate for the sales loss of Chevrolet, total sales of the GM group in this region decreased by 4%.

- When looking at the breakdown by brands within the group, Chevrolet's global sales fell 4.3%, while those of Cadillac increased by 2.5%, those of Buick increased by 7.6% GMC by 15% and 7% for Opel.

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- The agreements between GM and PSA signed in December 2013 planned another joint production of new versions of light utility vehicles such as the Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner and Opel Combo. We knew that these three vehicles were going to be produced on a common platform when the agreement was signed but we did not yet know the place (s) of production.
We now know, that the Vigo plant (Spain) was selected for the production of these three vehicles.

- Today, the Berlingo and Partner are based on a PSA chassis and are already produced in Vigo. The Combo will use the base of the Fiat Doblo that is manufactured in Fiat’s Turkish plant (Tofas), which also produces the Doblo. Launched in 2012, it has never exceed the 36 000 annual sales threshold, while the previous generation based on GM was selling at twice as many units.

- The three future models: Citroën Berlingo, Peugeot Partner and Opel Combo will be launched in 2018. They will be manufactured alongside the Citroën C4 Picasso, Citroen C-Elysee and Peugeot 301.

- The first generations of the Berlingo and Partner (launched in 1996) are still produced in the Mangualde plant (Potugal) and sold in a few markets. So the question of the sustainability of the PSA Mangualde plant has arisen: will the current generation (launched in 2008) be transferred to the Portuguese plant or will other vehicles will be produced there?

- PSA's management recently announced the upcoming decrease in models sold by the group, it is not certain that the Mangualde plant can be kept open.

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