- INFINITI ends feasibility study over third-party manufacturing
- All-new model will be manufactured in-house in European facility
- All engineering and development work continues on schedule, with start of production in 2015
PARIS - INFINITI is moving ahead with plans to develop a compact premium vehicle with a scheduled launch in 2015.
INFINITI intends to manufacture the vehicle in-house in a European production plant. The company will announce a production location and more product details closer to the start of production.
INFINITI still intends for the all-new compact premium vehicle to share a platform developed with Mercedes. The expanding partnership between the Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler, which began in 2010, includes powertrain and platform sharing, joint development of fuel-efficient vehicles and other projects worldwide.
INFINITI began a feasibility study with supplier Magna Steyr in May this year to determine a possible third-party production site in Europe for the premium compact INFINITI. However, INFINITI ended the feasibility study this week and has decided to produce the vehicle in-house in a European production facility as part of the brand's overall expansion production plans.
All design, engineering and development work continues on schedule.
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Contacts:
Renault-Nissan Alliance
Mia Nielsen
+33 (0)6 10 83 31 33
mia.nielsen@renault.com
INFINITI Global Communications
Nathalie Greve
+852 (0) 9447 9711
nathalie-greve@infiniti-global.hk
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Toshitake Inoshita
+81 (0)45 523 5552
t-inoshita@mail.nissan.co.jp