Posts Tagged ‘CarlosGhosn’

Ghosn: Nissan not pursuing partnership with Chrysler

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
According to Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan, the Franco-Japanese carmaker is not interested in adding additional alliances with Chrysler at this time. While Chrysler recently inked a deal to have Nissan manufacture subcompacts to sell in South America, that is as far as it goes. "We have an OE ......

Nissan’s Ghosn: US auto industry in recession

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Carlos Ghosn, President, Knight, and big cheese at Nissan Motor Company and Renault, says the U.S. auto industry is in recession. Ghosn told the Associated Press, "We are very lucid on the situation of the industry that there is a recession in the United States, at least in the car market." With Nis......

Carlos Ghosn goes to Russia, returns with a new AvtoVaz

Friday, December 7th, 2007
Relentless deal maker Carlos Ghosn has never stopped looking for any partnership that would give Renault a plum position in a profitable market. Already close to a Nissan deal with Chrysler working on Renault and Nissan deals in the Middle East, his latest paramour is in Russia. Ghosn has secured hi......

Ghosn on Middle East tour: Electric cars in Israel, factory in Morocco

Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Renault-Nissan president Carlos Ghosn is arguably one of the most effective automotive industry executives, and having just embarked upon a tour of the Middle East, may prove to be more effective than the endless stream of government and military envoys parading in and out of sand-swept capitals. Gh......

Nissan to hook up Chrysler with small cars

Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Carlos Ghosn, Nissan/Renault's CEO, has been looking for a U.S. automaker to partner up with for some time and he may have finally found a suitable suitor. Reuters is reporting that a negotiations between Chrysler and Nissan to supply the Cerberus-owned automaker with a small car that would displace......

Rock photographer Jim Marshall turns his lens towards the Nissan GT-R

Saturday, October 13th, 2007
click above image for gallery of Jim Marshall's Nissan GT-R shotsThe Nissan GT-R is undoubtedly the rock star of the auto industry at the moment. So it makes since that Nissan hired noted rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall to capture the GT-R's gestation over the past year. The series of images......

Ghosn hints at killing Nissan Titan

Friday, October 5th, 2007
No one doubts that selling full-size trucks in the U.S. is a tough racket. Nissan knows this firsthand, as it's sold only 60,961 units of its Titan pickup so far in 2007. Compare that to the third best-selling truck in the U.S., the Dodge Ram, which has sold 326,177 units, or the new-for-2007 Toyota......

2008 will be another long year for automakers: Dealers cutting back on orders

Monday, September 17th, 2007
This time last year some analysts were saying that a downturn in auto sales was around the corner. Well, it looks like those chaps were right on the money, as 2007 is projected to finish with 16 million sales, down one million units from 2005 totals. If a look at dealer orders is indicative of thing......

LA 2007: U.S.-spec Nissan GT-R huge performance bargain at $69,850

Saturday, September 8th, 2007
UPDATE: Video of live reveal added after jump click above image for high-res live shots of the U.S.-spec Nissan GT-RNot only did we finally get to see the new U.S.-spec Nissan GT-R for the first time on these shores, but we also found out how much it will cost when it goes on sale next June in the ......

Ghosn still interested in U.S. automaker tie-up

Sunday, May 27th, 2007
While wanting to be on the record as saying he doesn't feel overstretched as the head of both Renault and Nissan, Carlos Ghosn admits the Japanese automaker's recent profit slump is "disappointing." But more importantly, he wants the world to know Nissan is still "extremely profitable."And yet, some......