May 2019 retirement of Dieter Zetsche<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and the controversial November 2018 arrest of Carlos Ghosn.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe latter executive spent the following year under arrest but escaped to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays in 2019. Since then, the Nissan management team has pushed back on many of Ghosn\u2019s pet programs, among other things placing more distance between the Japanese automaker and its French ally Renault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Brinley said she couldn\u2019t confirm that management changes at Nissan doomed the alliance, she told TheDetroitBureau.com that, \u201cIf the execs who were most bullish about it are no longer there, it may no longer be a priority\u201d for their successors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One remaining piece<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Now, the final piece of the alliance, the COMPAS plant, appears to be at risk. “Even during its peak year in 2020, the factory did not eke out 50% of installed capacity,” Sam Fiorani, AutoForecast Solutions vice president of global vehicle forecasting, told Automotive News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research firm does not expect to see the COMPAS plant to continue production beyond 2026 \u2014 though alternatives could be developed before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An alliance once promising billions of dollars in savings is essentially coming to an end as Nissan plans to halt production at a plant in Decherd, Tennessee that had been building engines developed by Mercedes for use in luxury products sold by both automakers. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1164,905,2648,1347,9],"tags":[7498,1689,7497,7496,528],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230724,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230682\/revisions\/230724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230682"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=230682"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=230682"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=230682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}