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Byline: Audrey LaForest The plug-in hybrid version of the bestselling Outlander midsize crossover is the 'right vehicle at the right time' for Mitsubishi dealers and U.S. consumers, said Richard Herod [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel And Naoto Okamura Mitsubishi Chairman Osamu Masuko defended his company's alliance with Nissan and Renault amid a barrage of shareholder skepticism, saying the carmaker needs the expertise [...]

Byline: Urvaksh Karkaria Nissan found itself cold-shouldered last week by the sudden romance between its global alliance partner Renault and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Many observers immediately concluded that the proposed [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Nissan's long resistance to its French partner's request to make the Renault-Nissan alliance 'irreversible' could come at a high price for the Japanese automaker, which appears to [...]

Byline: Vince Bond Jr. While the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance deals with the cloud of the Carlos Ghosn scandal, a thin silver lining is forming over Mitsubishi Motors North America. In the [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel For 13 years, the Renault-Nissan alliance looked to a single unflinching, supremely confident car czar to guide it through an increasingly complex global auto industry. Now, with [...]

Byline: Hans GreimelCarlos Ghosn was the engineer and the duct tape of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance. With-out him, it might look like the whole thing is going to fall apart.But with [...]

Byline: Vince Bond Jr. and Jack Walsworth These are exciting times for Japan's little three. Mazda and Subaru are preparing to launch electrified vehicles in the U.S. -- including their [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel and Yang Jian Didi Chuxing is the force to reckon with in Chinese ride-hailing. First for locals, who can't seem to crisscross a city here without it. [...]

Byline: Vince Bond Jr. Mitsubishi sold 103,686 vehicles in the U.S. last year, the first time it topped 100,000 since 2007. Looking long term, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. COO Trevor Mann, [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Nissan Motor Co. hardly seems like an automaker in need of more corporate tie-ups, with its alliance links to Renault and Mitsubishi, and a network of partnerships [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Carlos Ghosn wants Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi to sell a combined 14 million vehicles a year by the end of 2022, and to get there, he says, [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Carlos Ghosn refuses to say the words 'I told you so.' But you know he's thinking it. For almost a decade, Ghosn has been the industry's biggest [...]

Byline: David Undercoffler The absorption of Mitsubishi into the Renault-Nissan Alliance will disrupt some of the brand's U.S. product plans, but it could also bring additions to its lineup, such [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Infiniti will tap into new technologies from across the Renault-Nissan Alliance to burnish its high-tech cred and serve as the alliance's showcase for premium performance. Infiniti President [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn would like Nissan and its alliance partner Renault to pick up the pace on commonizing their platforms and technologies. But not [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Mass-market Nissan will begin receiving some goodies that have been flowing from the product-sharing partnership between Daimler AG and the Renault-Nissan Alliance, a senior Nissan executive says. [...]

Until last week there was no record of Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche waxing philosophical about the train wreck that was DaimlerChrysler. But as his company deepens its ties with Renault-Nissan [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Automaker alliances are crucial for the companies to meet global product demand, says Carlos Ghosn, CEO of two allied companies, Nissan and Renault. 'The only way to [...]

Byline: Jason Stein The 13-year-old partnership of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. is widely seen as the most successful alliance among automakers. That track record gives Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos [...]

The ink isn't dry on the new General Motors-PSA Peugeot Citroen partnership, but the signatories already are touting the synergies for product, purchasing and logistics in the auto industry's latest [...]

The pressure on Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn was cranked up last week after his second in command, Patrick Pelata, 55, announced that he will step down as COO. Ghosn's chief [...]

Byline: Keith Crain Not long ago, Carlos Ghosn could do no wrong. He was a superhero in Japan when he saved Nissan. Someone even did a comic book series with [...]

All the buzz at the Paris auto show about new collaborations and partnerships among carmakers implies that we're headed for another age of industry consolidation. It's the kind of thing [...]

Carlos Ghosn's paycheck proves there's a lot more dough for auto execs in Japan than in France. Ghosn, dual CEO of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co., disclosed how much [...]

The world's rumor mill churned last week over a French magazine report that Nissan's Infiniti brand will get a 'small SUV for the United States built off a Mercedes-Benz platform. [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Daimler AG would consider a partnership with another automaker as a way to revive the four-seat Smart ForFour car. "It certainly would not hurt, Daimler CEO [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA plan to share more parts and more suppliers. Nissan and Renault plan to double the volume of each auto part used [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Nissan Motor Co. expects more product-sharing deals with Chrysler LLC, but Chrysler is not on track to be Nissan's long-sought North American alliance partner, says CEO Carlos [...]

Byline: Jesse Snyder Russian automaker AvtoVAZ plans to have the world's largest vehicle assembly plant here, with annual capacity of 1 million units or more. AvtoVAZ wants to use its [...]

Byline: KEITH CRAIN Here we are, ready to put all our New Year's resolutions into action. It's only a couple of weeks until press days at the North American International [...]

Renault's low-priced Logan was created three years ago strictly as a Third World car. But after showing surprising star power in western Europe, it's creeping ever closer toward the United [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel Nissan Motor Co. has tapped the Formula One racing chief at Renault to be the Japanese company's new CFO. Alain Dassas assumes the post Sept. 17 and [...]

Carlos Ghosn doesn't want to buy Volvo from Ford Motor Co., but the Renault and Nissan CEO says he hasn't abandoned the idea of finding a U.S. partner. A year [...]

Byline: Stephen Downer The low-cost Renault Logan sedan, which alliance partner Nissan will sell in Mexico under its own brand, will be called the Aprio, a senior Nissan source says. [...]

Byline: James B. Treece Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. have begun buying steel jointly. Until now, the alliance partners had not bought steel together because it is not traded [...]

General Motors is in the midst of a 90-day deep dive with Renault-Nissan to decide whether the three automakers should form an alliance. So how does that sit with Toyota, [...]

Byline: KEITH CRAIN The meeting is over. General Motors, Renault and Nissan have had their meeting, and now it is quiet time. Although there is sure to be speculation and [...]

General Motors, Renault and Nissan have agreed to conduct a 90-day study to determine whether the three automakers should form an alliance. No matter how the study turns out, GM's [...]

Byline: Jason Stein, Sylviane de Saint-Seine Trade union leaders at General Motors' European operations and at Renault SA oppose an alliance of the two companies. 'I am very, very afraid [...]

Byline: Jamie LaReau At first glance, the proposed alliance between General Motors, Renault and Nissan looks like a Rube Goldberg invention - it has lots of moving parts, but it's [...]