In a significant move underscoring its long-term commitment to India, Renault Group has inaugurated its new state-of-the-art design centre in Chennai, now the company’s largest design hub outside France. The facility, which replaces the studio established in 2013, aims to spearhead Renault’s product innovation, localisation, and global collaboration, as part of its wider ‘Renault Rethink’… Continue reading Renault Unveils Its Largest Global Design Hub Outside France in Chennai
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Renault Rethink: A New India Strategy at the Core of Global Growth Play
India has emerged as a key pillar in Renault’s global expansion strategy, with the country playing a central role in the automaker’s future volume growth. Under the newly launched ‘Renault Rethink’ plan, the company has acquired complete control of its JV plant with Nissan and committed $600 million in fresh investments. It also announced the… Continue reading Renault Rethink: A New India Strategy at the Core of Global Growth Play
Renault Opens Design Centre in Chennai as Part of India Transformation Strategy
Renault India inaugurated a new design center in Chennai on Tuesday, marking the beginning of its ‘renault.rethink’ transformation strategy for the Indian market. The facility, spanning 1,500 square meters, is the company’s largest design center outside France. The center will focus on developing models tailored to Indian consumers while contributing to Renault’s global projects. Equipped… Continue reading Renault Opens Design Centre in Chennai as Part of India Transformation Strategy
Motorists ‘could save £850 a year by choosing an electric car over a hybrid’
A Nissan Qashqai hybrid car at the carmaker’s factory in Sunderland. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/AP View image in fullscreen A Nissan Qashqai hybrid car at the carmaker’s factory in Sunderland. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/AP Motorists ‘could save £850 a year by choosing an electric car over a hybrid’ Owners of hybrids save only £13 a year compared… Continue reading Motorists ‘could save £850 a year by choosing an electric car over a hybrid’
Maruti Ertiga to Toyota Vellfire: Top 10 MPVs in FY2025
That the utility vehicle (UV) segment in India continues to register its best-ever numbers fiscal after fiscal and increased its share of the overall passenger vehicle sales of 4.30 million units to a new high of 65% in FY2025 is thanks to each of the three sub-segments – compact SUVs, midsize SUVs and MPVs –… Continue reading Maruti Ertiga to Toyota Vellfire: Top 10 MPVs in FY2025
Seven to heaven: Chasing F-16s in £80k Caterham CSR Twenty
The steering wheel is a non-adjustable leather Momo thing, the gearshift throw is perhaps the shortest in production, and the simple dials and toggle switches are pifflingly easy to acquaint yourself with. There’s a heater and a 12V socket, and even though the suspension design takes up more room than older systems, there’s still a boot, mohair-lined.… Continue reading Seven to heaven: Chasing F-16s in £80k Caterham CSR Twenty
Magic moments from Autocar road testers past and present
The Autocar was the very first motoring magazine to use a standardised series of tests to deliver a verdict, and nearly 100 years on, we’re still doing it. Things have changed since those early days, of course. Sadly our early road testers are unfortunately no longer with us, but some of the magazine’s more recent… Continue reading Magic moments from Autocar road testers past and present
Lancia: the brand that refused to die
What really sets everyday cars apart, prices aside, is design. The reason one person falls in love with the Jeep Avenger may well be why another orders an Alfa Romeo Junior instead, despite their identical specs. Lancia has always been a design brand and, in this coming era of increasing mechanical and technical similarity, going… Continue reading Lancia: the brand that refused to die
Autonomous cars will transform life for society’s most vulnerable
Nissan has now finished testing autonomous cars on UK roads, as its EvolvAD project has come to a close – the last part of an eight-year scheme. This bit was to see whether a self-driving Nissan Leaf could operate outside of cities and in less connected areas, on residential and single-track country roads, to discover what types of… Continue reading Autonomous cars will transform life for society’s most vulnerable
Horse Powertrain reveals hybrid conversion for electric cars
Horse, the engine-making joint venture of Geely and the Renault Group, has revealed a hybrid powertrain designed to be retrofitted into electric cars. It contains the internal combustion engine, electric motor, gearbox and related electronics in a single unit that, Horse said, can be squeezed into the same space as an EV’s main drive motor. This means manufacturers could retrofit… Continue reading Horse Powertrain reveals hybrid conversion for electric cars