The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler AG will expand their five-year strategic cooperation into the pickup truck segment. Together, Nissan and Daimler will develop a one-tonne pickup truck for Mercedes-Benz.

Mercedes-Benz recently announced its entry into this segment. The Mercedes-Benz pickup will share some of the architecture with the all new Nissan NP300 but it will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers. The vehicle will have all of Mercedes Benz's distinctive characteristics and features.

The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers. The primary target markets for the truck are Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America.

Nissan and Renault are already developing a one-tonne pickup truck for Renault which will also share some common architecture with the Nissan NP300. The truck, which will have a distinctive Renault design, is Renault's first one-tonne pickup truck as well.

Production of Renault's one-tonne truck will begin in 2016 at Nissan's plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The one-tonne pickup will mark Renault's second entry into the pickup segment after the launch of a half-ton pickup later this year.

The Mercedes-Benz one-tonne pickup truck will be built by Nissan in the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, along with the Nissan NP300 and the Renault one-tonne truck, for Latin America. The three trucks will also be built in the Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain, for other markets, excluding North America. Production of the trucks at the two plants will start by the end of the decade.