With alliance talks between General Motors and Renault- Nissan now official scrapped, there is much speculation Ford and Renault-Nissan might begin talking. After all, Bill Ford is known to have contacted Carlos Ghosn about working together in the past, and the company even expressed openness about an alliance while GM was still in talks with the French-Japanese automaker.
But now that Ford has a new CEO at the helm, an alliance is looking less likely, according to the Detroit News. Ford sources told the newspaper the “situation has changed” since the appointment of Alan Mulally as CEO, and “Ford now has little interest in an alliance.” While the company is open to talking to Ghosn, its main focus is now “fixing its struggling North American automotive operations.”
