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| Renault plans to engineer more outside France | |
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| Renault plans to set up a worldwide product engineering network to match its moves into global manufacturing. Executive vice-president of sales and marketing Patrick Blain said the group was still seen too much as a French company making French-designed vehicles. The Dacia base in Romania is likely to be part of the global engineering expansion, as is Samsung in Korea. The OEM is already starting to rely more heavily on resources at these sites. Blain said the group could also look to put technical centres in India, where it has a link with Mahindra & Mahindra, and at its Argentinian base at Cordoba. In terms of future manufacturing plants, Blain said China was an “open question” for Renault. “I would expect there to be a decision this year, but it could be next year,” he said. The experience of Nissan, Renault’s global partner which now makes 350,000 cars a year in China, was useful and interesting, he said, but not necessarily a pattern for Renault . Blain said the Logan that will be built for the North American market in Mexico will not be a Renault or Dacia; it will have a Nissan badge.
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