New power

14 February 2017

By the end of 2016, the Renault-Nissan Alliance, along with Mitsubishi Motors entered the four largest automakers in the world

By the end of 2016, the Renault-Nissan Alliance, along with Mitsubishi almost caught up on sales General Motors and entered into a number of the largest automakers in global sales after Volkswagen, Toyota and GM. The total sales of the automakers as Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors have achieved in the last year of 9.96 million vehicles worldwide. As a result, the Alliance, under the chairmanship of the Gong behind the GM of less than 4000 cars and trucks, as well as approximately 350 000 units from the leader of the world ranking, the Volkswagen Group.

Hong said that only large-scale Alliance of Renault and Nissan was able to provide last year effective assistance of Japanese colleagues from Mitsubishi Motors that are stuck in a fuel scandal, which lasted in fact for decades. The Alliance was able to read, plus his annual performance Mitsubishi Motors since Nissan now owns 34 percent stake in the company.

Carlos Ghosn said: "the Merger of Renault Group, Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors creates a new force in the global automotive industry".

After the inauguration of the President of Nissan in 1999, Ghosn after a long struggle regained its profitability, including by dismantling its keiretsu, i.e., a network of permanent suppliers, closing plants and bringing in the Alliance of Renault, created the necessary synergy.

Now, the Gon may have to remember all the skills crisis Manager and put them into service for the rescue of Mitsubishi Motors, who by the end of fiscal 2016 ending in March, with a projected net loss of 202 billion yen ($1.8 billion). The Japanese automaker had last year, losing independence due to his leadership, which was unable to maintain control of the efficiency of its models, as it was in 1991.

Accordingly, Mitsubishi Motors added to the "common pot" of the Alliance for 2016 its 013 934 units sold vehicles, but that figure fell by 13% compared to 2015 due to the reputation of the brand in the domestic market and weaker demand from the crisis markets of Brazil, Russia and the Middle East.

In turn, Renault and Nissan were noted in 2016 sales growth. The company Renault, which owns about 45% shares of Nissan Motors, increased deliveries by 13% to 3.2 million vehicles.

Nissan, respectively, sales grew by 2.5% to a record 5.6 million, while Nissan owns 15% of Renault shares.

In addition, the Alliance is a world leader in the market of electric vehicles, whose sales last year reached 94 265. Both the manufacturer put on the market a total of almost 425 000 electric vehicles, starting with the moment when the Nissan Leaf went on sale in 2010.

The Volkswagen group last year was able to press from the top of the Toyota Motor for the first time as the world's largest automaker, despite the "deselect". The German automaker reported record sales of 10.3 million vehicles in 2016, while Toyota sold only 10.2 million