Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes (COMPAS) is a

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manufacturing plant between the

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and Nissan based in

Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and with an average altitude of a ...

, Mexico. The factory was announced in July 2015 as a strategic alliance between the two companies. Both companies invested a total of $1 billion for construction and operation of the manufacturing plant. The production site is located near the Nissan Aguascalientes A2 plant. At the time of its establishment, the plant was targeted to have an initial annual production capacity of more than 230,000 vehicles and was to create about 3,600 direct jobs by 2020. Production of Infiniti vehicles began in 2017, while the first Mercedes-Benz model, the

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, rolled off the line in September 2018. The A-Class production at the plant ceased in 2020 to focus on the

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, caused by the market demand shifting from sedans towards SUVs.

Production

Current models

Infiniti QX50 The Infiniti QX50, previously the Infiniti EX or Nissan Skyline Crossover until 2013, is a compact luxury crossover SUV produced by Infiniti, the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan. The first-generation QX50 is a minor model u ...

(November 2017 – present) *

Infiniti QX55 The Infiniti QX50, previously the Infiniti EX or Nissan Skyline Crossover until 2013, is a compact luxury crossover SUV produced by Infiniti, the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan. The first-generation QX50 is a minor model u ...

(2021–present) *

(July 2019 – present)

Former models

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(September 2018 – 2020)

References

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