Further evidence of the advantages of global alliances with news the Renault Flins plant near Paris, France will produce the all-new Nissan Micra with production commencing in 2016.
Plans call for 82,000 Nissan Micras to be produced annually by Renault but as these will be left-hand –drive models for Europe, at this stage implications for Australian supply are not clear.
As part of Renault’s new labour agreement with French workers, domestic production will lift by 180,000 vehicles per year so that some 710,000 Renault-Nissan vehicles will be made annually in France.
