AvtoVAZ rebound key to Ghosn's grand plan for Renault-Nissan

Carlos Ghosn wants his Renault-Nissan-AvtoVAZ alliance to become a giant in Russia with a 40% market share by 2016. Models such as the new locally made low-cost Datsun on-Do (shown) are key to achieving the ambitious goal.

October 06, 2014 05:00 AM

Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn's plan to make the French-Japanese alliance one of the top three global automakers by 2016 could be derailed if Russia's largest automaker, AvtoVAZ, fails to recover from the country's latest market collapse.

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