The “fuel-efficient” new segment small car for Chrysler will be sold in North America, Europe and other global markets in 2010, and manufactured at Nissan’s Oppama plant in Japan.
Based on a Nissan design, the truck will be made at Chrysler’s Saltillo assembly plant. To accommodate this product, Chrysler will shift volume from Mexico to its US-based pickup assembly plants. Sales in North America start in 2011.
Some US reports said the Nissan truck would be based on Chrysler’s full-size Ram with major exterior and interior reworks by Nissan. Chrysler already builds a version of its smaller Dakota truck for Mitsubishi to sell in North America as the Raider.
Nissan last week announced it would build three new sub-eight-ton LCV models in the US from mid-2010 at the Canton, Mississippi plant which makes its current full-size pickup, an in-house design called the Titan.
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