Mercedes is expected to build its new one-ton pickup based on the Nissan NP300 Navara sold in Europe, Australia and other markets.

Is the luxury pickup truck segment really a “segment?” Apparently so as Mercedes-Benz appears to be moving into the market with a truck it’ll produce in concert with Renault-Nissan, based on the concept drawing the maker floated around last April.

Mercedes-Benz’s Volker Mornhinweg, who heads up the maker’s van operations, told Auto Express that the yet-to-be-named truck may make its debut at the Paris Motor Show in October. The new truck is born from an existing Nissan truck, the NP300 Navara, that it produces for Europe, Australia and other markets.

The new truck could be called the X-Class, according to some reports, but with all of the recent revisions to the Mercedes nomenclature, the GLX might be a possibility as well.

No pricing information has been revealed about the new truck, but high-end, expensive trucks loaded with plenty of comfort and technological features are one of the fastest growing segments in the auto world.

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Soon Mercedes owners will be able to haul around tires in the back of their pickup trucks based off this Nissan NP300 Navara.

The Mercedes-Benz pickup will share some of the architecture with the all-new Nissan NP300, but it will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers. The vehicle will have all of Mercedes-Benz’ distinctive characteristics and features.

The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers. Nissan and Renault are already developing a 1-ton pickup truck for Renault, which will also share some common architecture with the Nissan NP300.

The truck, which will have a distinctive Renault design, will be Renault’s first 1-ton pickup truck. Production of Renault’s 1-ton truck takes place at Nissan’s plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

No word on where the Mercedes truck will built, but it may follow the old method of sending them partially assembled in kits and then finishing the job at a plant in the U.S. This would help the maker get around the Chicken Tax on trucks imported from other countries.

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The two companies are engaged in a five-year plan to jointly develop and build several vehicles, some of them at the Daimler AG and the Renault-Nissan Alliance COMPAS facility in Mexico.

COMPAS (Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes), a 50-50 partnership that will “oversee the construction and operation of a manufacturing plant for the production of next-generation premium compact vehicles for the brands Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti.”

The new entity will build a $1 billion plant – each kicking in half of the funds – on the grounds of Nissan’s plant in Aguascalientes to build compact cars. The new plant will be built alongside Nissan’s existing plant in the central Mexican city of Aguascalientes.

When completed in 2017, the plant will produce small cars for Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury unit, with Mercedes-Benz models rolling off the line in 2018. By 2020, COMPAS expects 230,000 vehicles annually will be manufactured there, and it could potentially be expanded.

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This is just the latest partnership between the two automakers. In fact, the Mercedes new C-Class and the Infiniti QX30 crossover are directly impacted by an expanding alliance between the makers. The latest C-Class can be ordered with a new engine produced by Nissan. Meanwhile, Infiniti is preparing to launch several models that will ride on platforms developed by Mercedes.