Renault-Nissan to produce the Lodgy MPV in Russia and India
- Nowadays, the sales of the Dacia Lodgy, an MPV from segment C does not exceed 30 000 units per year (the Tangier plant having a capacity of 150 000 units), while the Dacia Logan, Sandero and Duster sell ten times more than the Lodgy (between 300 000 and 400 000 units for each model).
- To revive the sales of the Lodgy MPV, the Renault-Nissan group has announced it would launch the model under the Renault brand in India in 2015 and in Russia in 2016. In India, the introduction of Lodgy seems logical in a market where minivans account for 20% of total sales in 2014.
- This model will be competing against the Suzuki-Maruti Ertiga and the Honda Mobilio . The marketing of the Lodgy on the Russian market is more surprising since minivans represented only 1% of the market in 2014.
- The objective is to optimize the use of the Lodgy's current production plant situated in Tangier (Morocco), and to assemble (CKD) the Lodgy in India and Russia. In India, assembly will start as of January 2015 at the Chennai plant, and it will start in 2016 in the Moscow plant in Russia. In the Russian plant, that same year (2016), the production of a Renault Captur inspired crossover will also be launched.
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