- Fiat, which has finalised a JV with GAC (Guangqi Automotive Corporation) last year, has ambition to sell 500 000 cars in China in 2015.

- The Viaggio model (based on the Dodge Dart, and therefore on the Alfa Giulietta) knows indeed a success going beyond manufacturer’s expectations (15 000 sales after six months on the market).

- The objective of 500 000 sales in 2015 will be however difficult to reach. It is to be noted that it took three years to other carmakers ( in particular Volkswagen, GM, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota or Honda) to reach such a volume.

- Fiat comes last in a highly competitive and very crowded market.

- Today the Renault-Nissan Alliance is composed of three groups:

-Renault Group (Renault, Dacia, Samsung),

-Nissan Group (Nissan, Datsun, Infiniti Group)

-and Avtovaz (Lada).

- In 2012 and for the first time in its history, the Renault-Nissan Alliance will produce more than 8 million vehicles in the world.

- Since 2009, Nissan had a better growth than Renault, which has probably convinced the board to set up Renault on the Chinese market in a long term view.

- The Fiat-Chrysler group is now composed of two entities to be merged in the near future:

• the Fiat Group (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia)

• and the Chrysler Group (Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep).

- In 2012, Fiat-Chrysler worldwide production will exceed 4 million units.

- Since the 2009 crisis, Chrysler division caught up Fiat division and in 2012, Chrysler will produce as many vehicles as Fiat.

- Fiat is however decreasing since 2007, which has probably convinced the board to relocate Fiat on the Chinese market.

- Renault announced that it has purchased the last 6% of Avtoframos’ (previously Moskvitch) capital which remained out of its control, and planned to increase the production to 190 000 units per year. In 2004, Renault bought 26% of Avtoframos, and in 2006, has increased its share to 94%.

- Renault-Nissan group owns also 25% of Avtovaz’s capital and plans to increase its share in the Russian carmaker (40% in a close future and the majority in a long term view). It is to be noted that the Togliatti plant, main factory of Avtovaz group, produces around 600 000 vehicles. All vehicles currently produced have been designed by Avtovaz itself. In the future, new models should be built from Renault-Nissan platforms.

- Renault confirmed it expects a long-term development of the Russian market, and highlighted that it had invested 480 million euros in its Moscow plant which currently produces six models: Logan, Sandero, Duster, Fluence, Koleos and Latitude.

- The Moscow plant produced 142 304 units in 2011 (compared to 86 573 in 2010). For the first ten months of 2012, the production has already exceeded 130 000 units, and could reach 160 000 units for the entire year.