Renault Creates Joint Venture With China's Dongfeng for 150,000 Cars Per Year
22 Jan 2013, 12:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault is not as present as some other mainstream manufacturers, on the Chinese market, yet they plan to change that, and the first order of business is the creation of a joint-venture, with a loca...
Renault Establishes Alpine Advisory Board
22 Jan 2013, 09:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / After the announcement of the Alpine brand and the founding of Société des Automobiles Alpine Caterham, an advisory board has been set up by Renault, which will be under the control of...
Spyshots: Renault Test Mule for Compact SUV
21 Jan 2013, 16:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The current Renault Koleos is still going strong, but its facelifted old Korean bones are getting tired, and soon it will have to be put out to pasture. Although it might not look like it, this i...
Renault to Cut 7,500 Jobs in France by 2016
17 Jan 2013, 11:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault has recently announced that it too will be joining the club of European automakers desperate to make ends meet, in these times of economic turmoil. Following the model set by PSA and Opel, R...
PSA - Aulnay Workers Protest Layoffs and Stop Production
17 Jan 2013, 10:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since PSA announced it would be closing down the Aulnay plant, in France, there has been an air of unrest floating around the factory ever since. There have been many strikes at the plant since...
Renault Captur Officially Revealed
11 Jan 2013, 10:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Renault has just revealed the Captur, the very first crossover in the urban range of models, building on the success (and platform) of the new Clio. The crossover is supposed to combine the best ...
Indian Renault Scala Gets CVT Automatic Version
10 Jan 2013, 17:14 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In Autumn last year, Renault launched the new Scala sedan onto the indian market. The car shares its name with the Renault version of the SM3 sold in some global markets (European Fluence), but it&r...
Front Fascia of the Renault Captur Crossover Rendered
10 Jan 2013, 13:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With one day to go before it gets officially revealed, indianautosblog.com have decided to make a rendering of the front fascia of the new Renault Captur crossover. The Clio-based high-rider will fe...
UK Branch of Domino’s Pizza Gets Two Renault Twizy EVs
9 Jan 2013, 08:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since the first time we laid eyes on the Renault Twizy, we said it would be the perfect vehicle for pizza delivery - we still stand by that, and after driving it around Monaco, we began to like...
Renault Reportedly Cuts Cord With Smart on Development of New ForTwo
8 Jan 2013, 16:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault signed a formal agreement with Daimler, for the production of the all-new Smart ForTwo and the all-new Twingo, and the two cars were reportedly going share the same platform, and engines. Ho...
2013 Renault Clio IV RS Pricing and Options
8 Jan 2013, 15:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Bad news Clio RS fans, the next generation might be a tad more expensive. Pricing for the fourth-generation hothatch has not been revealed yet, as the carmaker has promise this will be an average of...
Renault Teases Captur Crossover
8 Jan 2013, 11:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Renault wished everybody a happy New Year today, announcing they will reveal something on their official website from 10 AM (CET) this Friday, January 11. They didn’t go into detail at all...
How Dacia Became Renault’s Cash Cow
7 Jan 2013, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Dacia, a brand which just over a decade ago was still building a mildly-modernized version of the old Renault 12, has become a real cash cow for its current owners, Renault. The Romanian brand alrea...
Renault Blames Poor EV Sales in Europe on Bad Marketing
3 Jan 2013, 12:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault’s range of EVs clearly shows that the French manufacturer is one of the more forward-thinking of the major automakers - they are trying. However, their cars have still not made the des...
Dacia Duster to Race in 2013 Dakar Rally · Video
28 Dec 2012, 16:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Two Argentinean teams will use heavily modified versions of the Dacia Duster in next year’s Dakar Rally. Another important difference is that these SUVs come under the Renault badge, as this i...
Range of Smart Vehicles Set to Grow Along With the New Generation
28 Dec 2012, 15:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / When the first Smart burst onto the European scene, its range consisted of one single model, and since then, we have gotten the Coupe, the Roadster and the ForFour. Now, the range is set to grow fur...
Renault Alpine Coming in 2015 as Porsche Boxster Rival
27 Dec 2012, 15:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Peugeot and Citroen have fallen from grace with people who love K&N filters and have spiky hair, but Renault still has a reputation for delivering some of the most fun compact cars in the world....
Renault Rebadges Samsung SM-7 to Create Flagship Talisman Model for China
21 Dec 2012, 12:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / French manufacturers are renowned for making interesting luxury cars, but ones which you really have to love, in order to buy. However, for the Chinese market, Renault has left the job up to their K...
Renault Gains Exclusive Rights to Build Cars in Algeria from 2014 to 2017
21 Dec 2012, 12:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault has just announced that it has signed an exclusivity agreement with the Algerian government, to be the only automaker to make cars in the country, between 2014 and 2017, at an all-new plant....
First Renault Zoe EV Finds Home Ahead of 2013 Launch
18 Dec 2012, 13:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault has announced that the first production-spec Zoe EV has entered the possession of its new owner, French Minister of Industrial Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg. He ordered the car a few months ba...