Inovev plans 115,000 units per year of the new Renault Austral
- The Renault Kadjar (C-segment SUV based on the Nissan Qashqai platform) was launched in 2015 to enter a rapidly growing market, that of C-segment SUVs. At the time, Peugeot offered a 3008 (2009-2016 ) at the end of his career and still inspired by the minivan concept (plunging front, hatchback silhouette) and Citroën had not yet put its C5 Aircross on the market. 2016 was the best year for the Kadjar, with 150,000 sales compared to 80,000 for the old Peugeot 3008.
- But the arrival of the new generation of the Peugeot 3008 in 2016 put a brake on the career of the Kadjar, which has continued to decline since. Its sales fell to 75,000 units in 2020 and then 40,000 in 2021.
- Renault has therefore decided to replace it in 2022 with an SUV that looks quite similar to the Peugeot 3008, which will be replaced in 2023 after reaching a production peak of 250,000 units in 2018 and 2019.
- The new Renault SUV renamed Austral comes in a classic line of 4.51 m long (+6 cm compared to the Kadjar) based on the CMF-CD platform and not on the CMF-EV dedicated to electric vehicles. This means that the new model keeps the 1.2-litre 3-cylinder petrol engines (but not diesel) in HEV-Mild and HEV-Full versions developing 130 hp, 140 hp, 160 hp or 200 hp depending on the version. No 100% electric version for the Austral, which should end its career in 2029.
- The Renault Austral will be manufactured on the Spanish site of Palencia where the Mégane and the Kadjar are manufactured. Inovev expects 115,000 units per year in Spain from 2023.
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