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Do not think that Renault will take care of the center of gravity of powertrains. Nissan is a bigger brand, and much broader in scope. It makes more sense to assume that they will each take care of their own sections. For example, it is not illogical to put everything about SUVs at Nissan while Mitsubishi is going to develop the smallest platforms. I also wonder whether Nissan will not simply stand next to Renault and can therefore really remain their own brand without having to take over (inferior) Renault tech. The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance is different anyway than something like VAG, Stellantis or GM. They are more side by side instead of under a leading brand as a holding company. The fact that Renault as the leading brand is not the largest brand and technologically not the most developed means that this will not change so quickly. It also doesn’t seem to me that something like Alpine and the Z-series and whatever they are going to do with the GT-R will be placed under one umbrella.

Incidentally, the Mazda MX30 is a typical compliance car. They only made that thing to meet certain emissions standards. Too bad it’s not a more developed car. My mother really wanted that thing, but the range wasn’t good enough for her either.

I do think there will be more collaboration. Subaru of course with Toyota because they are covered for a large part. Suzuki already supplies Toyota models in its own jacket. Mazda has always been a crazy beast, but as a smaller manufacturer it doesn’t make sense to build this entire infrastructure all by itself if it’s not necessary.

Mitsubishi is not one big company. This is a misconception. All those organizations with ‘Mitsubishi’ in the name or those three diamonds in the logo are not even part of the Mitsubishi keiretsu. To be clear, a keiretsu is a Japanese network of organizations in which different companies work together and help each other by showing less opportunism in terms of purchase and sales in exchange for more flexibility and lower transaction costs, it is a bit like the Korean Chaebol where Samsung best example of this, with the big difference that there is no family influence at the top and it really is a network of organizations and not the above holding company (Samsung work vehicles, electronics and Memory do not call each other with an internal number, but the big boss at the top is called ‘Samsung Group’)). In the case of Mitsubishi, these are companies that support a specific corporate philosophy, and therefore carry the name and/or logo.

Mitsubishi Motors is the automaker, and that’s the only thing that comes under Nissan (and, by the way, Renault). And of course they are not going to reject this. Besides the fact that they will probably take care of the small car part, especially aimed at South Asia and vehicles such as small pickups, trucks, it is also simply an innovative brand with, for example, the best AWD technology.

[Reactie gewijzigd door RaJitsu op 12 april 2022 13:24]

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