Renault will launch 8 new models in the world
- Renault will launch eight new models specifically dedicated to overseas markets (production and marketing of models outside Europe) by 2027, or two new models per year on average for the next four years. Part of these models will be equipped with thermal engines and the other with electrified engines.
- The carmaker wants to double its sales in regions outside Europe compared to 2019, excluding of course the sales which had been made at the time in Russia. Russia is no longer part of Renault's commercial ambitions, the French carmaker is instead focusing on Latin America, India, the Middle East but also Africa where Renault already has a significant influence, particularly in North Africa.
- Renault aims to sell a third of its cars with a full electric or hybrid engine in these regions.
- The B-segment SUV called Kardian is the first model to implement this strategy. This new model will be marketed and produced in Latin America and Morocco, the largest market in the Maghreb.
- The Kardian, which measures 4.12 m long, is based on a new modular platform which will be used for most of the other seven models programmed by Renault and which can be compared with the CMP Entry platform of the Indian Citroën C3, intended also to models marketed outside Europe. The Kardian is equipped with a 1.0 liter 3-cylinder turbo petrol engine with direct injection developing 125 hp, or 25 hp more than the European version of this engine. In Europe, 130 hp is achieved by the 1.3 liter 4-cylinder and by the new 1.2 liter 3-cylinder fitted to the Renault Austral and Espace.