The next-generation Ford Focus makes its worldwide debut offering customers with more inexpensive technologies and features than ever in this segment, as well as detailed craftsmanship, outstanding fuel economy and also a new normal for driving high quality.
Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche and Renault/Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn have signed an agreement to reveal technologies and platforms, having a miniscule three.1-percent equity exchanging hands. The two chiefs lead a 12-member committee to identify and work on tasks where the several auto giants can uncover synergy.
This is the latest in a extended line of attempts by Mercedes to partner with a mass-market automaker that may support with popularly priced versions with out tainting the three-pointed star. The three expect to understand cost savings and added revenue of about $5.4 billion from the deal, that is open-ended in time and number of possible projects. It also aids Renault/Nissan fill up its underutilized capacity and helps the two greater compete while using Volkswagen Group juggernaut.
Subsequent Sensible to share Gen III Renault Twingo platform The future Twingo, due in about calendar yr 2013, will share its system together with the future fortwo along with a new sensible four-door hatchback that could revive the short-lived forfour name. Renault/Nissan will supply the three-cylinder motor for the two the Twingo along with the bigger intelligent. The brand new Renault system is versatile enough to underpin the tiny sensible fortwo, the front-engine Twingo and the rear-engine four-door smart hatchback, which will feature sliding rear doors, previewed by the Mercedes F800 2010 Geneva show vehicle. Electric powertrains are planned for the next-generation smarts, and we're most likely to see a proliferation of models beyond fortwo as well as the four-door.
Mercedes little vehicles to talk about Nissan leaf EV know-how
Mercedes' next-generation A- and B-Class fashions will share electric-vehicle technologies with Nissan, that is about to launch its Leaf. The brand new Benz modest vehicles is going to be constructed on a flexible shared platform that enables double floors, like the present A-Class, for ultimate package efficiency, likewise as the capability to create sporty and specialty types, which includes a sporty hatchback to compete using the Mini, plus a smaller two-seat roadster. The small Mercs also is going to be offered with a brand new family of Renault three-cylinder engines and upgraded turbo four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines.
The discontinued Sensible ForFour (pictured) may well be revived in an additional form.
2012 Infiniti G may perhaps get Benz four-cylinder engine
A whole new Infiniti G, due following yr as a '12 model, may perhaps be readily available using a Mercedes-supplied four-cylinder gas motor. Mercedes presently presents 1.8- and 2.2-liter gas fours in its European-market C-Class, and ideas to create that engine offered in North America, possibly a twelve months or two before the brand new, 2015 W205 model. Ghosn and Zetsche say there's virtually no cross-shopping in between Mercedes and Infiniti. An Infiniti G22 possibly would launch as much as a year following the 2012 G37.
Renault to provide little van system for Mercedes
Mercedes will rely on Renault's modest van system for a compact, urban delivery van family members of its personal. A next-generation Renault Kangoo is due for 2015. Although this section has not been important to the U.S. current market within the past, the entry of the Ford Transit Connect and Fiat's plans to sell small vans here by means of Chrysler's Ram truck division could change that.
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