Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have signed a contract for the establishment of a joint venture related to their minicar business. This is a 50:50 JV that will involve product planning and engineering of minicars for the Japanese market.
This is nothing new, but a development of the agreement signed in December 2010 between the two carmakers. Then, both parties said that working together “will further strengthen mutual competitiveness”. Nissan and Mitsubishi already have several OEM agreements for the domestic market, mainly for K-cars (MMC for Nissan) and commercial vehicles (Nissan for MMC), and this development is a logical step.
While the fruits of this JV will be for JDM consumption, another part of the December 2010 agreement involves us. It said that the two companies are looking at manufacturing and engineering collaboration of a new generation one-tonne pickup truck – that’s the next Navara and Triton becoming sisters. Read our previous post on that here.
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no comment..can?
this is what proton and perodua should practise.
perodua develop small cars up to 1300cc, and then proton rebadge.
proton develop cars 1300-1800cc and perodua rebadge.
in between, P1 and P2 share many similar components like door handle, power window motor, fuel pump, brake pads, door lock, wiper nozzle, fog lamps, power window switches and the likes.
If that’s the case, better merge since both of them are going to offer the same car with different badges, thus cannibalizing sales.
This will not happen, since Perodua share own by Daihatsu. Do you think Daihatsu will let it happen?
good to hear the JV plan, but don’t design the car look like Mahindras….
actually, the vehicle in the picture is a re-badged pajero io, which design is quite outdated
prefer a classic boxy-Pajero design than weird-looking nissan Juke.
they have been long helping each other…
in 2004, nissan is helping mitsubishi with their financial and in return mitsubishi provide nissan platform for sedan to small car (if i am not mistaken)…
in 2007, they prolonged they agreement…
Mitsubishi – Proton – Lotus – Renault – Nissan ; circle of friends
These produce shall be introduce into Malaysian Market as soon as possible. So that Malaysian Automotive Market is more balance and healthy.
if they merge, i think they will only share components and engineering. not models
the KIX is nice, wish we have more rugged-looking, budget, 4WD in Malaysia … nothing much since the last Feroza ….