Nissan is in talks to supply cars to Honda in the United States, which would let the struggling Japanese automaker put to use an under-utilised American plant, the Nikkei newspaper said on Friday, without citing sources.

Nissan Motor Co. (OTCPK:NSANY) is considering manufacturing pickup trucks for Honda Motor Co. (NYSE:HMC) at its Canton plant in Mississippi, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The site, which is one of Nissan's two U.

Nissan may get the chance to activate some idled manufacturing capacity in the United States to build trucks for Honda, according to a report from Japan’s Nikkei newspaper. The coverage did not cite a source, but it pointed to Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi, plant as a potential manufacturing location for a Honda pickup.