Renault Kangoo News

Renault has charted a course to growth in Australia, with four distinct product streams that will give the French brand its broadest and boldest market coverage ever in this market.

When it comes to motoring, the winds of change blow stronger with each passing day. For some people, they may have unknowingly already bought their last petrol or diesel-engined car. For the rest of us, it’s really a question of “when”, not “if” we’ll turn our back on combustion propulsion.

What is it about some cars, trucks and SUVs that make them more appealing the older they get?Is it familiarity? Faith in the fact that the manufacturer has had time to iron out all the big faults as well as niggling little problems?

Victoria is ironically taking the lead on the electric vehicle (EV) transition in Australia, with its government not only announcing a bold sales target, but also offering financial incentives to help it along

Renault has revealed the third-generation Kangoo small light-commercial vehicle, which has been confirmed for an Australian launch

Renault Australia has extended its capped-price service plans from three to five years for its light-commercial range, encompassing the Kangoo, Trafic and Master models.Dubbed 'Easy Life' by Renault, the program is designed to assuage business customers o

It's been a rough year for new vehicle sales.

Renault Australia has rejigged its Kangoo range for MY20, deleting two of the small van’s variants and increasing the pricing and specification of the remaining three

Renault has previewed its new-generation small van with the unveiling of the all-electric Kangoo ZE Concept, which could launch in production form as early as next year.

Renault Australia has extended the warranty on its light-commercial vehicle (LCV) range, making it better than all of its van rivals, except Ford.The new warranty is three years or unlimited kilometres, increasing the distance from the previous three-year/200,000km cover.It now exceeds the offerings from Mercedes-Benz Vans and Fiat Professional that both have three-year/200,000km warranties on their respective Vito and Sprinter, and Doblo and Ducato products. Citroen has a three-year/100,000km cover on its Berlingo.But none of them can beat Ford’s five-year/unlimited kilometre warranty on its Transit, Transit Custom and Ranger vehicles.Renault has applied the warranty from November 1 this year on its Trafic, Kangoo and Master models. The boost in cover, which Renault said was in response to customer feedback, is aimed at lifting the LCV range’s sales and resale value.Renault Australia managing director Andrew Moore said the company’s van range was now well positioned to respond to the needs of LCV buyers and that business customers covering long distances no longer had to worry about this impacting on their warranty.Sales of Renault Australia’s LCVs in the first 10 months of the year have slipped slightly compared with the 2017 data.The Renault Kangoo has 710 sales for the 10 months, down 3.3 per cent on the same period in 2017, while the Trafic sold 1657 units (down 2.1 per cent) and the Master found 1306 buyers, down 3.5 per cent on 2017.