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8 » LENSES December 2018 | AutoData BURIED ALLIANCE In these last days of November, and on the report against Carlos Ghosn (tax fraud and personal money usufruct of Nissan) the panorama seen from the bridge shows the scene of the gaijin that was tolerated until the company presented better annual results, even better than its oldest partner, Renault, and that could already be discarded. It is known that Ghosn enthroned Nissan’s revival, took it out of the mud of bankruptcy. They thanked him greatly and even elevated him as manga hero. But they simply do not like him, automotive sources believe - Nissan, after nineteen years surfing more than satisfactory waves, would have made the decision to get rid of the disturbing partner. It is true that there are two strong accusations against Ghosn, something that will certainly be understood later with the progress of the process. But the observers’ attention was drawn to the fact that the president Hiroto Saikawa, his successor in charge of the company, did not even consider granting him the indulgence of doubt: he accepted without a question the conclusion of the prosecution that locked Ghosn in a prison. In other words: he was thrown to the sharks – a circumstance in which Renault’s attitude was infinitely more sober. BURIED ALLIANCE 2 It is a paradox because Saikawa was considered, in the internal Renault Nissan Mitsubishi world (sources say) the dahlia of Ghosn, his successor, in a process of the merger of the companies expected to be finished until December 2020. Perhaps, presumes another source, the Nissan world had other plans. Another paradox that unites the unanimous opinions of the sources is about Ghosn’s reasons for (they suppose) deceiving Japan’s laws and the best business practices. BURIED ALLIANCE 3 Many of these responses are likely to be found in the lower details of the factor H (from human), claims one source quite close to the facts. Carlos Ghosn would be the mirror of shame for the company’s pride, and it was time to get rid of the unwanted partner: Renault. So (for sources closer to Paris) the Alliance partner’s attitude “borders on cheating followed by precipitated attitudes” - that simply have no way back. In other words: the idea of the Alliance would be definitely buried. By Vicente Alessi, filho Suggestions, criticism, comments, offenses and the like for this column can be directed to the email vi@autodata.com.br Acervo MIAU Museu da Imprensa Automotiva