Next generation Mitsubishi Strada and Nissan Frontier Navara will be together

[leopaul]

Check this news:

http://paultan.org/2010/12/15/nissan...t-to-be-twins/

It seems there will be a next generation of Mitsubishi Strada (Triton) and a Nissan Frontier Navara soon but the next generation Strada and the next generation Navara will be together! As in, OEMS!

That's because the partnership between Nissan and Mitsubishi advanced even further since Nissan sold Mitsubishi-sourced kei cars in Japan such as the Otti, which is based on the Mitsubishi eK Wagon, and the Kix, based on the Mitsubishi Pajero Mini.

Both of these pick-ups were a favorite among Filipino car enthusiasts because of the diesel engine, but what will our Philippine car enthusiasts react if the new Strada looks like a Navara and a new Navara looks like a Strada?

Quoted from my blog

[shadow3616931]

Check this news:

http://paultan.org/2010/12/15/nissan...t-to-be-twins/

It seems there will be a next generation of Mitsubishi Strada (Triton) and a Nissan Frontier Navara soon but the next generation Strada and the next generation Navara will be together! As in, OEMS!

That's because the partnership between Nissan and Mitsubishi advanced even further since Nissan sold Mitsubishi-sourced kei cars in Japan such as the Otti, which is based on the Mitsubishi eK Wagon, and the Kix, based on the Mitsubishi Pajero Mini.

Both of these pick-ups were a favorite among Filipino car enthusiasts because of the diesel engine, but what will our Philippine car enthusiasts react if the new Strada looks like a Navara and a new Navara looks like a Strada?

Quoted from my blog

How true is this and how soon will they launch the new generation strada/navara... I'm planning to get a strada GLS 2.5 4x4 by early next year but if this is really true I'd rather wait for it.

[zap.FREEDOM]

nakaka-excite naman yung bagong pick-up lines na ilalabas nila,

[oliver1013]

Waiting for the pajero/patrol love child.

[numbah5]

This could be Mitsubishi's and Nissan's answer to the all-new Ranger.

[boybi]

OT: natawa ako sa comment na ito sa link na yan:

Well in Malaysia we ‘welcome them with open “arms”‘ but in Thailand ‘they welcome them with open “thigh”.’

Guess which one will you choose?

:bwahaha: :bwahaha:

[blue ice]

ha ha ha.... very funny...strada+navara=stravara (name of future strada) or navara+strada=navatrada (name of future navara)???????????????? mmmm.... maybe the toyota hilux and isuzu d max are planning to merge their pick up. result???????????????????????????????????????wow!! ! himax and d lux?????????????

[jimnyeatworld]

hmm... parang la lang ha. pickups kelangan pa ba talaga i look forward ito. they're just utility vehicles parang L300FB, kahit 20 years gamitin same body

[ianmitsulancer]

i think another joint venture that Mitsubishi and Nissan can work instead on is to develop a Passenger Van for the Global Market to combat the Toyota Hiace and Hyundai Grand Starex! The Urvan Estate is starting to show its age plus the Regular Urvan plus the L300 are just so stone-age!

[ianmitsulancer]

here is an update:

Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance up in the air

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/...-up-in-the-air

Production of Nissan's brisk-selling Frontier Navara pickup trucks at Thailand's Mitsubishi factory has been thrown into doubt.
The plan was aimed at addressing Nissan's capacity shortfall as part of a cooperation agreement announced late last year between the two Japanese carmakers, especially in the mini-car and global commercial vehicle segments.
The two are also considering collaborating on engineering and manufacturing a new generation of one-ton pickup trucks.
However, a senior executive at Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) admitted there is a "low possibility" for it to expand capacity at its two local factories while it focuses on building a 16-billion-baht third plant to make compact vehicles for local and export sales.
"Is there even enough room for Nissan since the production capacity of Mitsubishi's plants is nearly at a maximum?" he asked rhetorically.
The new plant, adjacent to the two existing ones in Laem Chabang, Chon Buri, will produce 150,000 vehicles a year starting in March 2012, rising later to 200,000.
The executive ruled out the possibility of making the Frontier Navara at the new facility, as it is designed to produce only small cars.
The two existing Mitsubishi factories have a combined annual capacity of 200,000 units - 50,000 passenger cars at one and 150,000 pickup trucks and passenger pickup vehicles at the other.
Mitsubishi produced an estimated 190,000 vehicles in Thailand last year, exporting 160,000.
Prapat Choeychom, a senior vice-president of Nissan Motor Thailand (NMT), said the plan to make pickup trucks at the Mitsubishi plant remained under study.
"Raising capacity at our own plant ... would be a big issue since expansion would involve substantial investment and take a lot of time, and we could not be assured of continued strong growth in vehicle demand," he said.
Even if greater cooperation does materialise, Nissan would not shift all pickup production from its plant on Bang Na-Trat Road Km 21 to the Mitsubishi plant.
Most Nissan pickups built at the Mitsubishi plant would be for export.
Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of parent Nissan Motor Co, also ruled out the possibility of expanding Nissan's Thai plant at present even though it was at maximum capacity.
"We'll have more products and maybe increase our production in the future, but we have no plans for that now. For now, we can use the production capacity from different factories around the world to produce the March," he said, referring to the company's popular new subcompact eco-car.
NMT president Toru Hasegawa said local orders for the March had surpassed 25,000 units in the first eight months since its launch. NMT also plans to export 70,000 of the cars throughout Asia-Pacific excluding China in the fiscal year that ends this coming March 31.
Its Thai plant has a maximum annual capacity of 200,000 units without extra shifts. Figures for 2010 are expected to show production of 210,000 vehicles locally, slightly surpassing maximum capacity.

[ianmitsulancer]

and another one:

Navara may strain capacity

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/...-up-in-the-air

Limited production capacity is the main concern for Mitsubishi Motors Thailand if Nissan moves some of its Navara pickup truck production to the local Mitsubishi plant.

Mr Murahashi shows off a new Pajero Sport, which Mitsubishi introduced yesterday along with an updated Triton pickup. Both models feature a new engine that is more fuel-efficient.



"News that Nissan would use Mitsubishi's production facilities here stunned us and so far we know nothing about the cooperation," said Nobuyuki Murahashi, the president of Mitsubishi Motors' Thai unit.
He was commenting on the agreement by the two Japanese automakers late last year to expand cooperation to new projects to improve competitiveness in the area of mini and commercial vehicles.
In Thailand, the two companies will explore the possibility of producing the Nissan Navara pickup at the Mitsubishi plant.
Mr Murahashi said Mitsubishi has not yet received exact direction from its parent company, nor had he discussed the matter with his counterpart Toru Hasegawa at Nissan Motors Thailand.
"First of all, we still don't know the number of Navara pickups Nissan needs to be built at the Mitsubishi plant," said Mr Murahashi.
A study on the cooperation has not yet concluded.
Mitsubishi is currently building a new 16-billion-baht third plant at Laem Chabang in Chon Buri. Mr Murahashi said the plant, capable of making 150,000 to 200,000 units per year, would produce only small compact cars for both domestic and export markets.
Mitsubishi's first plant at Laem Chabang builds Pajero Sport passenger pickup vehicles (PPV), Lancer and Lancer Ex sedans and Space Wagon multipurpose vehicles at a combined capacity of 50,000 units per year. The second one, also at Laem Chabang, produces Triton pickups at 150,000 units per year.
In 2010, Mitsubishi exported 180,767 Thai-built vehicles, of which 80% were Triton pickups and Triton-based Pajero Sport models. In the domestic market, Mitsubishi sold 39,549 units.
The figures showed that the capacity of Mitsubishi's two plants was fully utilised.
Mr Murahashi agreed that the possibility of developing the next generation of pickup trucks in Thailand would help reduce vehicle costs from spending in research and development.
He predicted that local vehicle sales would grow to between 840,000 and 850,000 units this year, from an estimated 780,000 in 2010.
Positive factors include the increase in civil service salaries, investment expansion and new products including eco-cars and pickups. Mitsubishi aims to gain a 6% market share or 50,000 units sold this year.