LCV (light Commercial Vehicles)

LCV (light Commercial Vehicles) Market is essential to many Automotive manufactures, it shares many platform with Passenger Vans and Minibuses which makes their market share so important to many Automakers; Since these Automakers indirectly bound with new/old alliances just like Stellantis and ISUZU-Volvo, and the Club Four to optimize their production capacities and costs, consequently we see same LCV models rebadged by many other Manufactures. Stellantis is the result of the merger Fiat Chrysler (FCA) and PSA group which had started cooperation in production of LCV models long before their actual Alliance start date. Commercial Vehicles models like Fiat Ducato, RAM ProMaster, Peugeot Boxter/Manager, Citroen Relay/Jumber, Vauxhall Movano, and Opel Movano are vivid example of this cooperation. Even Toyota has joint them with Toyota ProAce Max production model. In other hand the long cooperation between Renault and Iveco (the Club Four) since mid 1970’s continued on the Renault Truck Master, Nissan NV400/InterStar models which are the same replica of Iveco Daily. The basis of cooperation between Isuzu with Volvo-Renault (Truck division) is on the need of LCV market share. Thus for Isuzu will be supplying Volvo with LCV models in return of Volvo providing Isuzu with Heavy Commercial Vehicles and also the ownership of Nissan Diesel (AKA UD trucks) fully transferred to Isuzu instead. Since IVECO was the commercial division of FIAT group ( AKA Fiat Industrial S.p.A) and now part of CNH Industrial, having the indirect link with Stallantis and direct link with Volvo-Renault alliance, we may see a bigger future alliance between all these Automobile manufactures in upcoming years.

Author By: Reza Djalili
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