Quote Originally Posted by douglasm View Post
I wonder if Renault is using this as a hedge against Nissan. The French car maker would like to take controling interest in Nissan to better control it's partner [[it has 43% of it) but Nissan has bewen reluctant to do so, even after Renault bailed it out of severe financial trouble 10 years ago.
If you take a look @ that Wikipedia link I posted above, there's also a third player involved in this "Alliance", Mitsubishi. It'll be interesting to see the end result of the FCA acquisition in a few years.