Alliance Members Achieve Combined Sales of 10.76 Million Units in 2018

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PARIS and TOKYO, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

     - Combined sales by Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors rise 1.4% to

10.76 million units in 2018 - one in nine of all cars and light commercial

vehicles sold worldwide

    - Total sales of Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) rise 13.5% to 2 million

    - Cumulative sales of electric vehicles up 34% year-over-year, to 725,000

electric vehicles sold since 2010  

    - Progress achieved on offering more vehicles utilizing CMF shared

architecture

    Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, the world's leading automotive alliance, today

announced that its member companies sold a combined total of 10,756,875 units

in the 12 months to December 31, 2018. The Alliance maintained its position as

the world leader in volume sales of passenger and light commercial vehicles.

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    Unit sales for 2018 rose 1.4 percent year-over-year amid continued strong

demand for vehicles including the Renault Clio, Captur and Sandero, the Nissan

X-Trail/Rogue and Sentra/Sylphy and Mitsubishi's Eclipse Cross and XPANDER.

    Sales of more vehicles utilizing the Common Module Family (CMF)

architecture - a key pillar of the Alliance 2022 mid-term plan - also increased

pace in 2018. This included inaugural sales of the Renault Kwid in more

international markets along with increased production of the Nissan Frontier

pickup truck, which shares architecture with Renault and Mercedes models.

    The Alliance members saw particularly strong demand for light commercial

vehicles, with solidly improved sales of the Renault Kangoo, Master and Trafic,

the Nissan Navara and Terra, and the Mitsubishi Triton. A core part of the

Alliance strategy is to maximize synergies through cross-development and

cross-manufacturing to increase sales and market presence of member-company

LCVs around the world.

    In 2018, the Alliance maintained its commitment to zero-emission vehicles.

Its leadership in the segment with cumulative sales of 724,905 electric

vehicles since 2010 was driven by demand for the Renault ZOE and Nissan LEAF,

among other EVs.

    Of the Alliance member companies, Groupe Renault's sales were up 3.2

percent to 3,884,295 units in calendar year 2018. Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. sold

5,653,683 units worldwide, down 2.8 percent in 2018. Mitsubishi Motors

Corporation sold 1,218,897 units worldwide, up 18.3 percent year-over-year.

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Source:  Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi