Unlike Renault-Nissan Chief Carlos Ghosn or Chrysler-Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne, Winterkorn is a classic car guy.
Both companies have worked successfully together under the direction of Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn.
Last year, Nissan's chief executive Carlos Ghosn underlined his company's commitment to its electric cars programme.
"Nissan's performance in the third quarter did not meet our expectations, " said chief executive Carlos Ghosn.
"It was a disappointment for us, " Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said here last week.
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Carlos Ghosn, Renault's Brazilian boss of worldwide manufacturing, says Curitiba will make a profit by 2001.
Nissan was losing money for most of a decade before Carlos Ghosn stepped in as president.
Carlos Ghosn had no trouble justifying plans to move Nissan manufacturing capacity to the U.S. and Mexico.
Renault chief Carlos Ghosn warned last July that the carmaker was in a "difficult and uncertain" environment.
Many credit Carlos Ghosn, the executive seconded to Nissan by the French carmaker, with masterminding the bold revamp.
Can Carlos Ghosn really transform Renault, a sleepy maker of modest European cars, into a premium luxury brand?
Even Carlos Ghosn has to worry about the monster that is beginning to bite into his European business.
Carlos Ghosn has won worldwide accolades for the turnaround he engineered at Nissan just a few years ago.
Dunne said it takes leadership to fuel auto company advances and noted that Carlos Ghosn turned around Nissan .
Compare this with Renault's growing cross-shareholding with Nissan of Japan, run by Renault's former chief operating officer, Carlos Ghosn.
Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn had a 45 minute meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Trade Secretary Stephen Byers.
At the New York International Auto Show in March, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn also suggested its plans will stay.
It worked at Nissan, where Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born Frenchman, turned the struggling Japanese carmaker into a hugely profitable concern.
Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of the Renault-Nissan alliance, said he wants his companies to move just as quickly as any Silicon Valley start-up.
But Nissan's boss, Carlos Ghosn, points out that these two things alone will not be enough to secure the Micra work for Sunderland.
Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of both Japan's Nissan and France's Renault, is still interested in having an American pillar to his alliance.
Nissan and Renault, both run by superstar manager Carlos Ghosn , have been operating together in a successful international alliance in recent years.
Still, the best news for workers came from Nissan, a car company whose fortunes are rapidly being turned around under its free-thinking president, Carlos Ghosn.
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Carlos Ghosn, the famously outspoken CEO of Nissan Motor Co.
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Carlos Ghosn has proven to be a man of his word.
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After Nissan crashed, one way Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn brought it back was to unwind the company's keiretsu relationships of interlinking ownership with its parts suppliers.
The debt problem at the motor group is as bad if not worse than it was with Nissan before it was turned around by Carlos Ghosn.
In a sign of Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn's confidence in Mr. Dodge, he is in charge of all regions globally except China and Japan.
Carlos Ghosn , chief executive of Renault and Nissan, has made no secret of his desire to expand the current alliance to include a North American automaker.
In the automobile industry, probably the most globally inter-connected, the Nissan-Renault tie-up under Carlos Ghosn that seems to be working may be the exception that proves the rule.
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