Daimler and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi will break the partnership

24 April 2019

A fell off and B is gone – who is left on the pipe?

Cooperation between automotive companies Daimler AG and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, starting in 2010 when they counter acquired stakes in each other and agreed on the joint development of a number of models and power plants, developed largely through informal contacts of the heads of the German company Dieter Zetsche and head of the Franco-Japanese Alliance Carlos Ghosn, who met and settled the case in particular during the international motor shows.
However, the situation with Carlos Ghosn, trapped in a Tokyo prison and dismissed from all posts in Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi develops negatively for him, and at the head of the German company on may 22 will face the Swede Ola Kallenius. According to German business magazine Manager Magazin, the successor to Zetsche not only intends to expand, and generally ready to roll all joint projects with the Alliance that will naturally put an end to the decade of partnership. On the contrary, Kallenius is going to shift completely to the partnership with BMW. In principle, such a position is understandable, because under the current head Dieter Zetsche actual cooperation with the Franco-Japanese conglomerate Daimler exhausted, so that existing projects are being reversed for various reasons, but new and not assumed. This gap is the world's leading automakers echo would reverberate in the markets of all continents, and also will lead to a partial permutation in the industry.

Citimobile Smart Forfour and Renault Twingo produced in one factory in Slovenia

At the peak of cooperation of Daimler and Renault-Nissan has carried out up to a dozen joint projects. For example, citimobile Smart Fortwo and Forfour have been unified with hatchback Renault Twingo. Get the Forfour and Twingo are still available in parallel at the Renault plant in Slovenia. However, in 2021, the Smart brand will vypuskat in China jointly with Geely. On a single platform with the Mercedes MFA was released model Infiniti Q30 and QX30, well, mutual deliveries of engines by both parties even more numerous. For example, turboservice 1.3 supplied for crossover Renault Arkana.

Pickup Mercedes-Benz X-class based on the model of Nissan Navara, and the MB Citan van based on Renault Kangoo

  In turn, the new CEO of Renault, Thierry Bollore, not too confident about the preservation of Daimler as a "key partner". But even in the case of the collapse of all existing joint projects and lack of new "cross" ownership of the shares will affect the activities of companies. So the cost of the package of the Alliance in Daimler (1,55%) for today is pulling nearly two €2 billion, making it the third largest after Chinese billionaire Li Shufu has been and the Kuwaiti sovereign Fund. The press service of Daimler AG has not commented on the likelihood of rupture of the producers, offering to wait for the inauguration of the new President.