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Nissan and Suzuki to bring collaboration further

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Nissan and Suzuki will be expanding their collaboration with sharing vehicle platforms and rebadging. Currently Suzuki supplies some small cars for Nissan to rebadge. An example would be the Suzuki MR Wagon, which Nissan rebadged as the Nissan Moco. These small cars are usually sold in the Japanese market only.

The agreement cites the possibility of new products for the Japanese market. If feasibility studies go well, Nissan will be supplying a minivan to Suzuki to rebadge, and Suzuki will supply another mini-car like the Suzuki MR Wagon to Nissan to rebadge. This is expected to begin at the end of 2006.

From 2008 onwards, Nissan might supply a compact pick-up truck to Suzuki to rebadge for the North American market. This might be a pick-up like the Nissan Frontier, as it’s considered small by American standards of huge 4 liter engined monster pick-ups. Nissan and Suzuki will also begin manufacturing collaboration by sharing facilities. The first facility to do this will be Suzuki’s Indian plant.

This is an example of a successful collaboration between car manufacturers.

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5 Comments »

  1. assimo said,

    June 5, 2006 @ 8:58 am

    Waahhh…good lah this two cars manufacturers collaboration,supply model for each others and rebadge it…and its happen in Japan!..At least they get a lot of benefit from that way..etc,can save new model development money i guess….
    How about P1 and P2?..going to study this collaboration?

  2. Zabimaru794 said,

    June 5, 2006 @ 3:19 pm

    They should call the the car NISUKI(Nissan+Suzuki)..Hehehehe..The car looks like Baby Serena to me..

    Just my thought only..don’t take it seriously..:)

  3. jtshin said,

    June 5, 2006 @ 7:20 pm

    I think the side n back looks like Atos.. even the handle looks like Atos’s… hehe… but both companies collaborate will be nice… imagine… suzuki frontier… hahaha… wonder what will suzuki name it when rebadge it…

  4. ryan_foong80 said,

    June 5, 2006 @ 7:33 pm

    Are you coming to malaysia?… Big welcome…

  5. wmzhaffran said,

    June 6, 2006 @ 12:59 am

    eeeuuuwww….. ugly for me :p

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