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According to Les Echos, Renault is expected to sell 100,000 diesel engines to Mercedes for this team's future C-Class and Vito utility.

Good news for Renault! According to Les Echos, the manufacturer should provide a Mercedes diesel engine. This block will host two models Star: the future C-Class, hidden surprise in April and is expected to be marketed in 2014, and Vito utility.

The engine in question should be the 1.6-liter, called R9M, which already takes place on Scénic and Mégane but also the Nissan Qashqai, the Japanese partner of the diamond.

Also according to the business daily, the command should be about 100,000 units by 2015 and return to the factory Cleon (Seine-Maritime), which already produces engines and transmissions for the Renault group.
The agreement competitiveness

After 82,000 Nissan Micra entrusted to Flins (Yvelines), this new order comes also under the agreement signed last March competitiveness between the unions and the management of Renault, for which the latter is committed to increase its production in France, with of course a few counterparties from employees (wage freeze in 2013, an increase of 6.5% of working time ...).
Also in Class A

Partner of the German manufacturer since 2010, particularly with regard to the sharing and development of technology and engines, Renault K9K already set up his block, the 1.5 L dCi 110 hp, in the cradle of the last Class A.

Photo: Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault and Dieter Zetsche, Daimler counterpart, at the signing of a partnership between both companies in April 2010.