WHAT?! Rumors Hint That Next-Gen Infinitis May Feature MB E-Class Underpinnings

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There has been a lot of talk lately about the recently inked strategic cooperation between Daimler AG and the Renault-Nissan Alliance. And we're not referring to the official agreements on the development of a new rear-wheel drive platform for small cars and the swapping of diesel and petrol engines between the two groups.

Leaving aside recent rumors of a small Infiniti CUV based on the next generation of Mercedes' A / B Class, Japan's Best Car magazine is now reporting in its latest issue that the Infiniti M and G replacements (Nissan Fuga and Skyline in Japan) will share a common architecture with the Mercedes E-Class...

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0to60 - 5/25/2010 7:26:00 PM

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I doubt it will look anything like that

LACMAN - 5/26/2010 1:26:03 PM

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Well, duh!

pepito66 - 5/25/2010 7:57:15 PM

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I don't like this types of merges specially Mercedes , they fail with Chrysler, this was a big mistake and now they play again with Nissan.
Could be this movement a sign of debility of the three point star brand.

bfghemicuda - 5/25/2010 8:01:39 PM

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Lets see if Diamler pillages Nissan like they did Chrysler. So far is seems like the same pattern.

pushrod27 - 5/25/2010 8:55:21 PM

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how would they do that? Daimler is doing a strategic alliance with Renault-Nissan. They outright took over Chrysler and called it a merger, thus putting them in command to pillage it.

bfghemicuda - 5/25/2010 10:51:39 PM

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It started as an alliance, then merger which then became a hostile takeover.

freeagent - 5/25/2010 10:13:01 PM

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volume for MB to spread fixed costs, cred and lower costs for Infiniti (who's global volume do not match the main competitors for these RWD platforms). somewhat risky from a culture alignment perspective, but the economic drivers are there

dlin - 5/25/2010 10:21:44 PM

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Skyline using E class platform? Wrong! It needs a smaller C platform to shed some weight.

lequan360 - 5/25/2010 10:26:20 PM

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i agree

Yonder7 - 5/26/2010 10:12:26 AM

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Invisible: you are right cause they were willing to ~!@# bmw too...However it is good to say that If we compare Chrysler to Nissan it is not fair ......Nissan is better by far.

theman440 - 5/27/2010 7:54:17 PM

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Go ahead and move to Japan dude...