text: Manufacturing achieved a series of milestones during 
  
  NISSAN 180. One of the biggest was opening the Canton 
  
  plant in the U.S., which got up to speed quickly, launching 
  
  five new vehicles in a period of just eight months. We built 
  
  two plants in China, and restarted operations in Egypt. We 
  
  dramatically expanded the Decherd, Tennessee engine 
  
  plant in the U.S., and all engines for North America are now 
  
  built at Decherd or at our plant in Mexico. 
  
  We also commenced cross-production with Renault: 
  
  Nissan began building Renault’s Platina in Mexico and its 
  
  Traffic in Spain, while Renault began building our Pickup 
  
  and Xterra at its factory in Brazil. We also started 
  
  production of common engines with Renault, with our 
  
  subsidiary Aichi Kikai and the Yokohama plant producing 
  
  the four-cylinder engines used in our new Tiida, Note and 
  
  Lafesta models. In Japan, we launched six new models in 
  
  just six months—the Murano, Fuga, Lafesta, Tiida, Tiida 
  
  Latio and Note. We also launched three vehicles—the Tiida, 
  
  Teana and Tiida Latio—in China. 
  
  While we were successful in Japan and China, we did 