- Today the Renault-Nissan Alliance is composed of three groups:

-Renault Group (Renault, Dacia, Samsung),

-Nissan Group (Nissan, Datsun, Infiniti Group)

-and Avtovaz (Lada).

- In 2012 and for the first time in its history, the Renault-Nissan Alliance will produce more than 8 million vehicles in the world.

- Since 2009, Nissan had a better growth than Renault, which has probably convinced the board to set up Renault on the Chinese market in a long term view.

- The “Pive Plan”(scrapping plan) in Spain was introduced in October. It already totalises 40 000 records, more than half of the 75 millions of euros planned by the government.

- Associations of the industry sector estimates that the funds could be at zero from January and call for the extension of the plan.

- "If the Plan is not extended in 2013, the situation will be disastrous and unsustainable, with a market that will be under 700 000 units," state Faconauto (Dealers Association) and Ganvam (association of maintenance and repair).

- The previous Plan (Prever) boosted Spain sales from 15% to 30% between 1997 and 2007, and at the same time threw away hundreds of thousands of vehicles older than ten years.

- Renault announced that it has purchased the last 6% of Avtoframos’ (previously Moskvitch) capital which remained out of its control, and planned to increase the production to 190 000 units per year. In 2004, Renault bought 26% of Avtoframos, and in 2006, has increased its share to 94%.

- Renault-Nissan group owns also 25% of Avtovaz’s capital and plans to increase its share in the Russian carmaker (40% in a close future and the majority in a long term view). It is to be noted that the Togliatti plant, main factory of Avtovaz group, produces around 600 000 vehicles. All vehicles currently produced have been designed by Avtovaz itself. In the future, new models should be built from Renault-Nissan platforms.

- Renault confirmed it expects a long-term development of the Russian market, and highlighted that it had invested 480 million euros in its Moscow plant which currently produces six models: Logan, Sandero, Duster, Fluence, Koleos and Latitude.

- The Moscow plant produced 142 304 units in 2011 (compared to 86 573 in 2010). For the first ten months of 2012, the production has already exceeded 130 000 units, and could reach 160 000 units for the entire year.

- Mini (a BMW branch) plans to start production of some models in Nedcar factory in Born (Netherlands) in the

  second semester of 2014.

- The Born site that belonged to Daf, Volvo and Mitsubishi will be taken over by the Dutch VDL in the coming weeks.

  Mini models will be assembled under contract. Mitsubishi has decided to withdraw from the site that it had formerly bought to Volvo and which is no longer profitable: Born production has continuously declined since 2000.

- Mini will sign with VDL the same type of contract he had signed with Magna Steyr in Graz (Austria), which

   already produces and will continue to produce Countryman and Paceman models. The Mini pilot plant is located in

   Oxford, England.

- Mini did not specify the expected production volumes in the Nedcar factory. In consideration of the success of the

   Mini on all continents, a boost of the production in Born is to be expected.