Daimler, Renault Form Global Car Alliance

?? this is confusing

I agree. This article should have never made it past an editor and is very badly written. 3 cylinder engines in Infinitis ???? since when ?

Well as long as Mercedes doesn't lose it's quality...

Ahh a German mistress, how interesting. So now you have sausages, ratatouille and sushi. I was hoping for Swedish meatballs. Alliance's are the way forward to reduce costs and preserve brand identity.

And I hope Infiniti/Nissan doesn't pick up Mercedes-Benz's poor reliability.

Merc is going to top handle Nissan and Renault just like they did with Chrysler. This three way marriage will NOT be successful and will dilute the brands. I think it this is being done to a) meet new CAFE norms, b) give Merc a cheaper source for smaller cars to sell in India, China, Africa, and some European countries. I still do not understand how it will benefit Nissan and Renault from putting more expensive, complicated, less reliable engines in their cars.

maybe finally there will be some stylish mercedes ;-)

Wait...I've owned 2 cars with the Mercedes V6 engines and my sister had the Nissan Maxima with the VQ engine and my last long-term rental car back in the US for 5 days was an Infiniti FX-37. The V6 engine in the Infiniti was much more fun to drive than the V6 in the Mercedes E350 Coupe... Even MB is dropping its lower displacement V6 engines in favor of the 1.8L turbo charged in-line 4...which is a great engine. As for quality...after living with the Infiniti for 5 days...there is no comparison...MB is still much better...bit more boring...but still much better. I think it should be Nissan/Infiniti that should be sharing the technology for the V6 engines.

Nissan/Infinity are important brands in Americas however in continental Europe will that alliance visible on the line between Mercedes and Renault. What comes to reliability issues then MB was always better to the certain point. Renault has his own strength, the fun factor or something which makes people happy. MB 190 I had once was fantastically good car as well as my funny Laguna I. Both were reliable as hell, which is fantastic but incomparable as often RWD/FWD cars are. Now when "doubtfully fueled future" is almost now and hence development of new solutions needed is one of the most expensive things in that industry that alliance will be somewhat successful. Only hope is that they'll benefit from each-others best values not only in little cars sector but also beyond it. For addition I would like to say that few years ago when Renault was trying to buy Volvo from Ford for $3,89 or smthn. billion then now it is sold out for half of it and with no possibility to have any advantage from that most advanced alliance in car industry which is sad thing even to think.

tell me when honeymoon's over , baby , then i shall give you a rundown on my ugly divorce from Chrysler...baby

Does that mean my Nissan and MERC are cousins?