Nissan Motor is considering assembling alliance partner Renault’s vehicles at its new plant in St Petersburg, the plant’s top executive has said.
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Fujio Hosaka, managing director of Nissan Manufacturing Rus, said at an industry conference that Nissan had the capabilities to produce Renault cars at the plant and plans to carry out a feasibility study of the project, Prime-Tass reported.
The plant, opened on 2 June, currently produces Nissan’s Teana cars and will add X-Trail SUVs from around September. Production capacity is 50,000 cars per year. Nissan’s car sales in Russia increased 26% year on year to 146,000 units in 2008.
