{"id":116721,"date":"2009-12-30T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/30\/zetsche-reportedly-says-daimler-to-pick-new-compact-car-partner\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:58:00","slug":"zetsche-reportedly-says-daimler-to-pick-new-compact-car-partner-by-mid-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/116721","title":{"rendered":"Zetsche reportedly says Daimler to pick new compact car partner by mid-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Budget<\/a>, Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, Smart<\/a>, Renault<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n

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Despite rumors of Daimler and Renault collaborating<\/a> on a four-door Smart model, no official tie-up between the two companies has been announced. That could change next year when Daimler will reportedly decide who its small-car partner will be. Daimler is getting even more heavily into the development of small cars, both with its Smart brand and the Mercedes-Benz<\/a> A- and B Class offerings that might one day make it to America.<\/p>\n

Renault<\/a> is planning a line of ultra-cheap small cars<\/a> and is putting together a range of electric vehicles<\/a> that will certainly feature new, small platforms. Like Daimler, the French automaker is talking to other companies about joining forces to save money on developing small cars, so a Daimler-Renault alliance isn’t a fait accompli.<\/em> According to Automotive News<\/em>, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche says the company will announce its chosen partner by the middle of 2010. <\/p>\n

[Source: Automotive News<\/a> – sub. req.]<\/p>\n

Zetsche reportedly says Daimler to pick new compact car partner by mid-2010<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Budget, Mercedes-Benz, Smart, Renault, Rumormill Despite rumors of Daimler and Renault collaborating on a four-door Smart model, no official tie-up between the two companies has been announced. That could change next year when Daimler will reportedly decide who its small-car partner will be. Daimler is getting even more heavily into the development of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}