Its a joint facility, Q30s will be rolling off the line next to CLAs. Its funny your comment about keeping it within Infiniti, I dont see that so much the case anymore. Manufacturing is not getting any cheaper and were seeing lots of consolidation of production facilities and modular vehicles across competing brands.Its possible but realistically Mercedes would just sell Infiniti the frame and have Infiniti put the car together.
There are production costs to making the interior, and sheet metal that I would assume Infiniti would be responsible for. I would think they would want to keep it within Infiniti.
low-cost sharing ventures are the way to go with these mainstream vehicles that aren't really about the true enthusiast, because at the end of the day the majority of people owning these cars won't care, people at the top owning the IPL Q30 and those owning the CLA AMG might not be all that happy....but they'll live with it.Its a joint facility, Q30s will be rolling off the line next to CLAs. Its funny your comment about keeping it within Infiniti, I dont see that so much the case anymore. Manufacturing is not getting any cheaper and were seeing lots of consolidation of production facilities and modular vehicles across competing brands.
Until 3D printing goes mainstream were going to see lots more of these low-cost sharing ventures, quality should be very concerned.
