Renault News

Remember how we told you that in recent history, automakers have made a handful of three-cylinder engines, and all but the one in the 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost were terrible? One of the culprits was the ...    Read more

In February and March of this year, General Motors and French automaker Peugeot-Citroen shocked the auto industry by announcing an alliance, expecting their European units to consolidate plants, share platforms, and enjoy synergies overseas. It made sense, as ...    Read more

Following news that the U.K.’s News of the World Sunday magazine had hacked the voice mail of murdered teenager Milly Dowler, Ford Motor Company pulled its advertising from Britain’s highest-circulating weekly. Not long afterward, Renault and Mitsubishi made the same decision along with other international companies like Coca-Cola, Virgin Holidays, ...    Read more

Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn raked in $12.1 million last year, making him the highest paid executive in Japan, edging Sony CEO Howard Stringer by $1.4 million. Ghosn made another $1.7 million dollars from Nissan partner Renault SA, which he also leads. Nissan is Japan’s second-largest automaker and is ...    Read more

Nissan, in a move that could either be considered daring or absolutely insane, has outlined a strategy that would bring a new car to the market every six weeks and triple Infiniti sales by 2016 among other objectives. Dubbed the Nissan Power 88, the name emphasizes ...    Read more

This sound almost like the Chrysler-Fiat situation. The Russian government will give Russian auto manufacturer AvtoVAZ $1.65 billion and Renault will partner with the company and provide it with technology and equipment valued at $360 million. It is hoped that the contributions will permit AvtoVAZ to hold 25 percent of ...    Read more

Would an automaker deliberately crash in a race? Well, The World Motor Sports Council, or WMSC, thinks so. Rumors concerning an on-purpose crash surfaced after Renault fired driver Nelson Piquet Jr. and Piquet said that Renault team leader Flavio Briatore and others ordered him to crash his car to help ...    Read more

FOLLOWING YESTERDAY’S TEASER image of four electric concepts Renault will have on show at Frankfurt, Renault has now released the first images of its Fluence Zero Emissions Concept. Full Article

Seeing as Renault is playing coy, this bird’s-eye-view is all we’ve seen of the French automaker's electric vehicle concepts, which will debut at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show. Full Article

We assume that you have been keeping track of the stimulus bill as it winds its way through Congress. They say that making a bill is like making sausage. It ain’t pretty. The give and take and partisanship can make anyone sick. Much of what is in the stimulus ...    Read more

As governments provide assistance to their automakers, there has been some voices who warn that the companies that are benefiting should brace for the consequences. In short, there may be hell to pay later.Automakers are being warned to use the money wisely and not fund overproduction. And to be prepared ...    Read more

The European automakers are going through problems, too. In their case, the credit crunch has forced them to go hat in hand to their respective governments for help. Unlike the U.s., the European governments are swift to react with aid.Now auto pundits in Europe are saying that the policies may, ...    Read more

Serving as president and CEO of a domestic auto company is like serving as a head coach of a bad football team. You always take pot shots from so-called experts as well as people who just don’t know what they’re talking about. And just about everyone is calling for you ...    Read more

Are you tired of automakers who long ago abandoned North American sales making periodic hints at a return to our shores? From Alfa Romeo bringing us a new version of its Spider convertible or Fiat importing the ultra cute 500, all have dropped hints in the press of late that ...    Read more

Renault, in cooperation with TomTom, maker of car navigation products, has developed a lower cost GPS navigation system that will appear on Renault cars.Experts say that the low cost of the unit will assist in having them appear in as standard equipment in high volume vehicles sold in Europe. The ...    Read more

Just like most auto makers in the world today, French manufacturer Renault is feeling pain. It believes that it has to bite the bullet and let some workers go. Recently the company announced that it would be dropping 4,000 workers. In response, workers walked off the job at several factories ...    Read more

A French magazine called Auto Plus is currently under investigation by the police concerning industrial espionage from French automaker Renault. The police raided the magazine’s Parisian offices and took away computers, hard drives, and photographs. Already one journalist is being held for questioning. Apparently the magazine has published images ...    Read more

Have you ever wondered how they made the maps used on GPS navigation systems? PocketGPS World recently went behind the electronic scene and joined the men and women who create those virtual maps. A major supplier of maps, Navteq has a specially-equipped Renault that serves as a survey ...    Read more

The Renault-Nissan partnership is supposedly looking for an American partner. The alliance held talks with General Motors in 2006 but things were not worked out.Oops.While everyone was observing the saga of the Detroit Three, Renault-Nissan has been creeping up and staying under the radar. Today, 2008, the alliance is in ...    Read more

Have The Simpsons, the animated family that represents the heart and soul of Americana, been sold out to the French? Mais oui! Yes, of course! They are now starring in advertisements for the family friendly Renault Kangoo van. Yes, it is called the Kangoo. It is not a ...    Read more

Let’s see. Back in the day we had the steam engine car. We’ve had the gasoline engine car. We have the electric hybrid powered by Lithium-ion or nickel-metal hydride batteries. They are working on a pure plug-in electric car and hydrogen fuel cell car. And then they have those biofuels ...    Read more

As many car makers turn toward development of fuel-efficient vehicles, there is now word that French automaker Renault is considering constructing a manufacturing plant for electric cars in Israel.Very little information has been provided. According to Business Week , such a development would be a joint venture with entrepreneur ...    Read more

The third world population is rising off their rickshaws and mopeds and demanding automobiles. And the world's auto makers are going to have to decide if they want to become a part of that market.According to Telegraph, car manufacturers, historically, would dump obsolete models in the market. Then ...    Read more