Chrysler, Nissan announce new partnership that includes small car and full-size pickup
04/14/2008, 5:55 PM
By Drew Johnson
Earlier this year, Nissan inked a deal with Chrysler to supply the Michigan-based automaker with small cars for sale in South America. While the deal did not include any Chrysler vehicles getting re-badged as Nissans, it was widely speculated that Chrysler could supply Nissan with a full-size pickup truck. Those predictions appear to be well founded as Chrysler and Nissan announce a landmark on Monday.
According to the automakers’ press release, Chrysler will begin building a full-size truck for Nissan that will hit the U.S. market in 2011. The new truck — which will presumably replace the ailing Titan – will be built at Chrysler’s Saltillo Assembly Plant in Mexico but will feature a design theme that is unmistakably Nissan.
The deal will also include Nissan providing Chrysler with a new small car for sale in the U.S. and Europe in 2010. While the previous deal was based around the Nissan Versa, neither automaker announced which vehicle the new model would be based on.
Nissan head Carlos Ghosn has been shopping around for a U.S. auto partner even since GM stopped negotiations with the Japanese automaker over a year ago, but it appears that Ghosn has finally found what he was looking for.



04/14, 6:04 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
what happens with the titan?
04/14, 6:07 PM
posted by:
rsg
I almost found myself writing “FIRST!” until I realized I’m not a complete loser. The Cerebrus boys must be geniuses or have incriminating pictures of someone considering they’ve convinced VW and now Nissan to throw their reputation out the window and sell re-badged versions of their mediocre products.
04/14, 6:18 PM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
Anything to replace the Caliber. Anything.
04/14, 6:28 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Well rsg, either that or VW and Nissan know something you don’t which really wouldn’t surprise the hell out of me.
04/14, 6:30 PM
posted by:
elviososa
Good thing for Chrysler…bad for Nissan.
04/14, 6:32 PM
posted by:
04focus
The Ram and the Caravan aren’t really bad trucks. It’s shameful that the VW van is a 80s GM style bad rebadge though.
I wonder if Chrysler would get a rebadged Frontier out of the deal.
04/14, 6:38 PM
posted by:
DrFill
One ailing Domestic and one ailing Japanese maker team up.
Do the sick get sicker?
DrFill
04/14, 6:43 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
I don’t care, I’m buying a Challenger R/T when they come out. Nissan can suck my ass.
04/14, 6:52 PM
posted by:
rsg
I know how well re-badged Chevy trucks worked out for Isuzu. I also know VW is adding one of the lowest re-sale value vehicles in the country to their highest re-sale value lineup of cars.
04/14, 7:15 PM
posted by:
bolex
HemiRoadRunner, im with you!
04/14, 7:56 PM
posted by:
autonut
I would not count Cerberus crowd as incompetent one – they’ve made their billions hard way: lured union pension funds. Considering Renault penchant for producing “world” cars this is great news for Chrysler. They will sell their excess of truck inventory and get to sell better made small cars. BTW, Nissan is a front for Renault, and Renault did a fine job surviving their own demise and rescuing/absorbing Nissan.
04/14, 8:50 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
Nissan reminds me of the bar whore going stool to stool looking to take somebody home and Chrysler is that dude.
04/14, 8:57 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
Hey Hemi dont forget your Waynes World mullet with the Charger.
04/14, 9:06 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
Damn, 400horsess is such a badass. You must be the nerdiest ****er here. All you ever talk about is restuarants and movies. I bet you even have high tea at noon you fruity bastard. Go get a damn job and earn your place in the world like the rest of us already and stop relying on your union bull**** to support your ass. Godamn I wish murder was legal.
04/14, 9:10 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
Ok Deanster.
04/14, 9:13 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
I have a job, Wentzville look it up homo
04/14, 9:34 PM
posted by:
nestle_s
well i work for a nissan dealership and the titan isnt doing well at all! this can be a hit or miss for both companies. we just have to see for ourselves! good luck to both companies
04/14, 9:53 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
Damn, 400horsess is such a badass. You must be the nerdiest ****er here. All you ever talk about is restuarants and movies. I bet you even have high tea at noon you fruity bastard. Go get a damn job and earn your place in the world like the rest of us already and stop relying on your union bull**** to support your ass. Godamn I wish murder was legal.
Comment by HemiRoadRunner, posted on April14 at …I bet this turd has been out of a job more than anybody.
04/14, 9:54 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
And I am badass.
04/14, 10:02 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
WTF??? I have worked for the last 10 years straight since I was 16, and not bagging groceries, farming, construction and building boat engines. I always sweated my ass off and never recieved anything special for it except a pack of cigarettes and some stolen liquor. What the hell are you even argueing about? You th ink the UAW is the answer to people losing their jobs in America? They’re part of the problem! They aren’t going to help you long term, they’re going to help you today and say, “Well we’re ok today but **** tommorrow” Is that how you live, day to day. If so, then you might as well kill someone and go to prison, you’ll end up living better.
04/14, 11:27 PM
posted by:
cookie4me
Nissan must be bailing on Titan/Armada/Quest platform. Underperform, underperform, underperform. No wonder they moved their HQ to Tennessee after the crap those crazies in CA styled for them.
04/15, 12:10 AM
posted by:
hateful83
That’s funny, all this time I thought the Titan was a decent truck. You don’t see alot of them, but they always ranked well in comparison tests. Maybe with their powers combined they can come up with some good products?
04/15, 12:36 AM
posted by:
murderedout
“You think the UAW is the answer to people losing their jobs in America? They’re part of the problem!” -HRR
Hemi, first off, I hope you know, those American cars that you proudly own, are built by Unions in the north! So if you own a Road Runner, you support the Unions. Second, if it weren’t for Unions, they would be paying people low, slave wages like they do now in the south. I guess all that Florida heat and humidity has killed many of you’re brain cells. How are those hurricanes, frequent power outages, wilfires, and horrendous bugs treatin you there in FL?
04/15, 12:45 AM
posted by:
mazdaman
I think this is a good deal for both companies. I would like to see even more collaborating between Chrysler and Nissan. I think an alliance between the two companies would benefit both companies. Chrysler doesn’t have a lot of financial resources to develop products on their own and will probably need to develop/utilize partnerships to assist them with their turnaround. Chrysler could do much worse than Nissan (Chery definitely comes to mind).
04/15, 12:56 AM
posted by:
A4
The Titan is a damn good truck
04/15, 1:35 AM
posted by:
murderedout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5UIaFZxIhg
04/15, 8:01 AM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
Murdered out, you obviously are brainwashed by your union buddies. If you make 50K a year to “work” on an assembly line, then I’m happy for you. But, don’t tell me to support the unions that are driving you guys out of jobs. Think about it. If you owned a buisiness and paid people good money and benefits to be indoors, have morning and afternoon breaks, and paid time off, wouldn’t it anger you that people are still whining and complaining? I would get fed up with it and tell them if they don’t like it they can leave, they aren’t entitled to a high paying job and benefits, I am GIVING it to you. And this isn’t 1920 when Henry Ford was paying slave labor for $1 a week. There aren’t “low slave labor” paying jobs anymore. Everyone today thinks the world OWES them a living and they don’t want to work for it. And, I could care less that a union built my 1970 Road Runner. I am glad it’s American made, but that deosn’t mean I get my jollies knowing a union member had a hand in building my car. That era is gone. People are more greedy, selfish and egotistical now than they were in 1970. Ever heard the ex[ression you can pay a little now or a lot later, well don’t forget it.
04/15, 10:22 AM
posted by:
tppp
Don’t worry Titan fans. The Saltillo Mexico plant produces the Ram heavy duty 2500 and 3500 models so I’m guessing this deal will give Nissan a heavy duty pickup frame and chassis and possibly diesel engines which will give them a leg up on Toyota who I think still plans on bringing heavy duty versions of the Tundra at some point. The heavy duty truck market has not fallen off as bad as the declining 1/2 ton personal use segment has so this is a good deal for Nissan to expand their truck lineup
04/15, 12:50 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
I guess someone forgot to mention that Suzuki is selling a rebadged Nissan Frontier to get them into the “truck” market too.
So much for the import brands offering some variety.
04/15, 7:51 PM
posted by:
nestle_s
the QX56 and the Quests replacement are being moved to the japanese plant in the next life cycle cause the QX56 will no longer share that platform with the tita/armada. the armada will stay in the canton plant where the current titan is being built. the QX56 will become a cross over not a truck based SUV.
04/15, 11:58 PM
posted by:
murderedout
HRR you are obviously brainwashed by your confederate buddies or Rush Limbaugh and the republican party full of CHICKENHAWKS! Who is whining and complaining? Quit watching the Fox news channel for once. Henry Ford paid a lot more than a 1$ a week. Besides the little money now was a lot back then. Ever hear of Inflation? I laugh every time I hear and old **** say, “hey I used to pay 20 cents for a candybar back then.” Yeah but people also made less money back then too. I always say to them EVER HEAR OF INFLATION?? If there aren’t low slave wage jobs anymore then, America would not be in a recession like it is now. If you care less about Unions building your RoadRunner then don’t bitch about the Unions in the first place. You can’t knock a Union if you have never been in one. Ever hear of the expression theres always two sides to a book? On the other hand glad to see you driving American, like myself.
04/16, 7:19 AM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
Hmmm… So $30 an hour is acceptable pay due to inflation??? OK, so what yourt saying is the harder you work the more you should get paid. Well, I have busted MY @$$ up to the point of graduating college and I don’t remember getting paid the big bucks or thinking I deserved the big bucks for doing work ANYBODY is capable of doing! That’s why I went to school to get a job that fewer people are qualified for, if you make mad @$$ money, then go back to school for a few years and you won’t have to worry about your future job security or argue with me about unions. And I’m not a “don’t knock it until you try it” guy. I could care less about not having been in a union. And why does every dumb@$$ on here make suggestions that I like a certain political affiliation, I hate polititions, because they are exactly like unions. And who are you calling old? Im younger than you retard, I worked in an automotive plant, I know the work you guys do, it isn’t worth $30 an hour. What ever happened to people going to work because of the opportunity? Now everyone thinks they’re entitled to be a millionaire. I’m beginning to really not care about anybody elses job security here, you are obviously a bunch of egotistical morons with bad attitudes. Maybe I’ll just stop buying American products, I will save more money that way.
04/16, 11:24 AM
posted by:
400horseSS
Hemi what do you actually know about the UAW besides what you and D-bagger shoot out you cum slathered mouths, dude just shut the **** up you are nobody in this world, stop acting like it.
04/16, 11:28 AM
posted by:
400horseSS
Tell Rick Wagoner that the work we do isn’t worth $30 an hour and im sure he’ll tell you to shut the **** up, and mind your own bizz, i want $50 an hour if I can get it. Take your anti union bull**** somewhere else, and the non-funny fag Deanster too.
04/16, 1:59 PM
posted by:
murderedout
HHR, I find it hard to believe that you have any kind of degree at all. I also find it hard to believe that you even have a job. I bet you still live with you’re parents and you’re a fat virgin who wacks it to shemale porn, by your lonley self every night. I highly doubt you’re younger than me. Last time I checked, there wasn’t any automotive plants in FL. How do you know if a jobs not worth 30$ an hour if you never seen it or done it? I bet you never been in a real automotive plant before. You’e just another close minded hillbilly redneck, who can’t think outside the box or for yourself. Get a mind of you’re own and stop listening to you’re redneck dad and maybe you will get somewhere in you’re life, if you even have one. Have fun waving your rebel flag around in you’re old beat up ford truck, cause you’re the one who looks like a retard!!!