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New models to be launched in India

By Devidutta Tripathy and Sanjeev Choudhary NEW DELHI French car maker Renault’s Indian unit will launch five cars between mid-2011 and mid-2013, including small cars in 2012, its India head said at an industry conference on Thursday. Toyota’s India unit

Automakers to launch new models, spend more in India

10pm IST By Devidutta Tripathy and Sanjeev Choudhary French car maker Renault’s Indian unit will launch five cars between mid-2011 and mid-2013, including small cars in 2012, its India head said at an industry conference on Thursday. Toyota’s India unit

Renault to launch India specific car in 2013

and above the five models the company had announced to launch by 2013. Renault plans to introduce five cars in the country between 2011-2013, including a small car. The company might share the platform of its partner Nissan to launch the small car in

Kia Tops Import Auto Chart in Russia for 1st Time

Rio subcompact (3,205), and Sportage compact crossover SUV (1,677). Chevrolet took second place with 8,986 cars sold, followed by Renault SA (8,574) and Toyota (8,251). Hyundai came seventh with 7,201 although its sales climbed 56 percent on-year. Kia’s

Hyundai-Kia Outsells Toyota in Europe in H1

5 percent, respectively. The most successful carmaker in the market was Germany’s Volkswagen with 1,576,524 cars sold. France’s PSA Peugeot Citroën came in second with 1,029,871 and Renault third with 783,013. The U.S. manufacturers Ford and GM followed

Nissan-Renault to make cars with Russian affiliate

France’s Renault SA plans to jointly develop a small car with its Russian affiliate, Avtovaz, by providing a vehicle platform developed in alliance with Nissan Motor Co. The company will also make an additional investment of 240 million euros (about 27

Renault DeZir concept signifies falling in love

play, and attaining wisdom. Renault’s chief designer, Laurens van den Acker, plans a whole line of concept cars that stand for each of these steps. As the falling in love car, DeZir is bright red, with softly curving lines. More pointedly, this

Is Nissan Qashqai a good buy?

changes to eliminate this problem. The 1.5 diesel is a belt-cam Renault engine found in millions of cars and vans. It is perfectly up to the job and is now reasonably reliable you are only likely to have a problem if you do lots of short runs from

Renault Sets Big Goal For EV Production

Renault head honcho Carlos Ghosn is among the loudest EV evangelists, and he firmly believes cars with cords are the next evolution of the automobile. He’s backing that up with a goal of producing 200,000 electric vehicles annually by 2015. So says

Renault targets 200K e-cars by 2015

year by 2015-2016, French paper La Tribune said, citing company sources. At least 150,000 will be “Zoe” cars, which will be launched in mid-2012 using a modified version of the Clio platform, according to the article. Renault says electric vehicles will