CCFA announced recently, French passenger car sales were 143,866 in February this year, down 12.1% year on year compared to 163,010 of February last year. In the first 2 months, French passenger car sales were 268,164, down 13.5% year on ...
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The all-new Renault Clio RS 200 EDC takes the light hot-hatch segment to an entirely new level. Whether it can still satisfy the Renault Sport purists is a different question, however. Unlike the previous two generations of Renault Clio ...
Renault is set to continue its growth path in Australia as the French brand aims to continue re-establishing itself as a prominent European marque. Last year saw Renault break the 5000 sales mark in Australia for the first time in the ...
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Renault’s performance arm, Renault Sport, is likely to move away from manual transmissions in the coming years as it seeks to further exploit its links with modern motorsport and expand its global reach. At the international launch ...
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Renault Australia’s managing director has ruled out budget-brand Dacia for the Australian market until he is satisfied that Renault has been well established locally. Speaking to CarAdvice at the Geneva Motor Show, Justin Hocevar ...
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Renault’s head of design says the French brand is pushing towards more sensual, Latin designs while the rest of the industry appears to be moving towards Germanic, hard edged styles. Speaking to the media at today’s Geneva ...
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The iconic Alpine brand is set for a complete revival with the Renault-owned brand well underway to produce its first model by 2016. Alpine, which has been around since 1954, is renowned around the world for producing such iconic cars as ...
The Renault group is looking to expand its reach with potential for a new premium brand in the future. Renault’s plans are to position itself in the middle of a Y-shaped strategy, which has budget brand Dacia down the bottom while ...
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The Renault Captur urban crossover has been unveiled at the Geneva motor show today ahead of its anticipated launch in Australia in 2014. The Captur, which is the second car by Renault’s new head of design, Laurens van den Acker, ...
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Renault Australia has secured a big win for its commercial vehicles with Australia Post picking the French brand to drive the nation’s mail. Switching from Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter, AusPost is set to change its fleet of vans ...
The Smart Forfour will again share its innards with another car for its next generation, following the original Mitsubishi Colt-based 2004 model. This time, however, the Smart Forfour will share its chassis with the next generation ...
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The 2013 Renault Kangoo van range has been overhauled with the introduction of the longer Kangoo Maxi van variant and a $3500-lower starting price. The revised Renault Kangoo range starts with the new short-wheelbase petrol manual model, ...
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A teaser video the Toyota i-Road concept has been released ahead of its world premiere at next week’s 2013 Geneva motor show. The 30-second clip gives us another sneak peek at the tiny 1+1 city concept, revealing its tall and narrow ...
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Renault-Nissan alliance is planning to invest about $320m (JPY30bn) to set up a low-cost vehicle manufacturing plant in India The alliance is expected to invest the amount to construct a second manufacturing plant at the company's site ...
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Automaker Renault has secured two contracts to supply electric vehicles (EV) to the Union des Groupements d'Achats Publics (UGAP), a public procurement group, in France. Under the contract, the company will deliver 2,100 vehicles in the ...