A quick guide to the agreements that’ll see the pickup market consolidate during the 2020s.

Car companies have been sharing development costs for years, so it’s hardly shocking to see them doing the same with pickups/utes.

For one, we’ve just seen Ford and Volkswagen announce the co-development of the next-generation Ranger and Amarok, due for market launch in 2022. Isuzu and Mazda are also sharing costs on the next D-Max/BT-50.

Similarly, the next Mitsubishi Triton platform will spawn the new-generation Nissan Navara, and potentially the next Mercedes-Benz X-Class and Renault Alaskan. The only difference here being that Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi are part of a wider alliance, with many synergies like this.
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