Ghosn predicts that carmakers that are struggling will suffer if industry sales fall in 2007.
Pouchot and Ghosn told Minshew they were going to sue Minshew for theft of intellectual property.
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Mr. Ghosn recently said Renault wouldn't equip models other than the Fluence with the battery-swapping technology.
There's some hubris in this kind of talk--but Ghosn is entitled to be boastful.
Unlike Renault-Nissan Chief Carlos Ghosn or Chrysler-Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne, Winterkorn is a classic car guy.
By having a "near-death experience, " Ghosn says, Nissan uncovered excesses that profitable companies let pass.
Ghosn "has a perspective on the global car industry that very few people have, " Dodge says.
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.
Mr Ghosn says similar considerations will come up whenever a new model is being planned.
Ghosn wants the Renault-Nissan tie-up to tap synergies, not just add names to the annual report.
Any way you slice it, this thing looks very bad for Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot.
But Mr Ghosn has a rough-and-ready strategy for dealing with this: he ignores them.
"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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When he first arrived at Nissan, Mr Ghosn was held in contempt by the corporate establishment.
Carlos Ghosn, Renault's Brazilian boss of worldwide manufacturing, says Curitiba will make a profit by 2001.
Mr Ghosn ordered no fewer than 22 new models to appear by the end of 2002.
By midafternoon Ghosn is back in the air, on his way to Oxford University.
"When I leave Paris, headed for Tokyo, I'm already on Nissan business, " Ghosn says.
Nissan was losing money for most of a decade before Carlos Ghosn stepped in as president.
But this would require even bolder management than Mr Ghosn has employed at Nissan.
It isn't hard to see why Charles "le cost killer" Ghosn is trumpeting his early achievements.
In particular, most analysts consider Mr Ghosn's forecasts of demand for electric cars to be wildly optimistic.
At Frankfurt, Mr Ghosn presented what he described as a complete range of affordable purely electric cars.
Carlos Ghosn had no trouble justifying plans to move Nissan manufacturing capacity to the U.S. and Mexico.
"There is no way I will launch a car if there's no consensus, " Ghosn told his people.
Ghosn was eager to talk with me and we arranged an interview with her on June 27.
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Ghosn has been one of the most-forward thinking executives in the auto industry of the past decade.
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Renault chief Carlos Ghosn warned last July that the carmaker was in a "difficult and uncertain" environment.
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