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Was the Scrappage Scheme a Success?

Posted on March 13, 2023

Since the government introduced the scrappage scheme in May 2009, nearly 400,000 people bought cars using it. According to the DVLA, new cars registered under the scrappage scheme accounted for more than 18% of sales for the 12 month period. “The scheme helped support our economy and played a vital role in providing a much-needed boost to the UK automotive industry,” said SMMT chief executive, Paul Everitt. The market for 2010 is predicted to perform well but will not achieve the peaks experienced during the scheme.

Analysis of the scheme show that cars registered under the scrappage have average CO2 emissions 27% lower than the cars they replaced and nearly 10% lower than all other cars registered in that period. …

Renault Cars in India

Posted on March 9, 2023

Renault India, the French auto maker, offered three different cars in Indian automobile industry. The company has offered Renault Pulse in hatchback segment, Renault Fluence in premium sedan segment and Renault Koleos in sports utility vehicle. Renault in collaboration with Nissan India, the Japanese auto giant, opened up a manufacturing plant in Oragadam near Chennai. The company aims to increase localization and further enhances the production of vehicles at the Manufacturing unit. Last year company revealed its plans of launching five different cars in India by the end of 2012. In step forward company had offered three cars including Pulse hatch and all set to introduce its all new sports utility vehicle-Renault Duster in Indian car market. Here is the …

Renault Clio 4 – More Mature And Sensible Than Ever

Posted on March 6, 2023

Renault Clio 4 – More Mature And Sensible Than Ever

The Clio dCi 90 is most likely to be the best selling model in the new Renault Clio line up. This new car gets the latest version of Renault’s tried and tested, 1.5 litre turbodiesel dCi engines. It comes with more torque, lower CO2 emissions and better economy than ever before. The 1.5 l direct injection engine churns out 89bhp at 4000rpm and 162lb at 1750rpm. CO2 emissions are down by 16g/km to 90g/km and the economy has increased too, which now stands at 83.1mpg.

That’s an improvement of 12.5mpg over the Clio3. Renault is not going to stop here with producing efficient engines and next year will see an …

Car Dealers – Take a Look at the Renault Espace Special Edition

Posted on March 1, 2023

A family car with a quirky twist, a practical people carrier with a little more than your usual amounts of panache. The Renault Espace (2006 Globe Ellen MacArthur special edition) is a celebration of the sailing achievements of Dame Ellen MacArthur, who sailed solo, non-stop around the world in less than seventy-two days. The partnership between her Offshore Challenges Sailing Team and those in charge of the Renault Espace was born in 2003, and has been going strong ever since.

Unique to other types of Renault, this edition was originally manufactured with a fibreglass body, a rarity among other makes of car. Exclusively for the UK market, this fabulous car scores top marks for cabin space (a luxurious seven seater …

Will Renault Return to the U.S.?

Posted on February 25, 2023

Back during the 1980s Renault cars, in alliance with the now defunct American Motors Company [AMC], were sold at American dealers. Once Chrysler purchased AMC, Renault retreated and quit selling cars in the US. A recent announcement by Renault that the U.S. market may once again be a candidate for Renault cars has been met with only tepid enthusiasm by the automotive press. Will Renault return? More importantly: does anyone care?

Renault’s exit from the US during the late 1980s was hardly noticed by most consumers. As makers of the tiny LeCar, the compact Alliance, and the midsize Medallion/Eagle Premier, not much distinguished Renault from the competition.

Today, Renault is quite a different company with a very different outlook and …

Renault Dealer – Make Sure You Choose the Right One

Posted on February 22, 2023

There are few vehicles in the world today that have as storied a history across Europe as the Renault. Founded in the late 1890s, Renault has set the stage for many car companies that came later. Pioneering superior engineering, craftsmanship and design, there are few vehicles — and car companies — that can even begin to compare to the superiority of a Renault. As such, when you are in the market for a new car, you need to make sure that the Renault dealer you choose to buy your new car from, is just as superior as the products they are selling.

Your Renault dealer should be professional, courteous and have the proper product knowledge so that no matter what …

Electric Car Technology Has Always Been Available

Posted on February 17, 2023

Did you know that we could have all been running around in electric cars decades ago and enjoying the benefits of reduced costs, reduced pollution and less sound pollution?

Most people don’t realize that the technology has been available and has only been keep out of the hands of the general public because too many big corporations, governments and economies would have been inversely affected if oil had been substituted for electricity.

So the ordinary people of the world suffer with more costs and poorer health from the fuel and sound pollution just so the money can be held by the top one percent.

The internet brought about the widespread distribution of information that had previously been suppressed by those …

The Most Popular Car Insurance Groups In The United Kingdom

Posted on February 14, 2023

AUTOMOBILE manufacturers and the leading insurers in the United Kingdom meet from time to time to assign what is known as ‘group insurance rating’ to the different cars and light commercial vehicles in the country. These ratings indicate the risk assessment of each car model, hence enable insurers to decide the premium price for each model. The insurance group rating system is widely used by insurers in the United Kingdom though the system is not binding on them.

The factors that decide a car’s insurance group rating are: car make, model, type, series, cubic capacity, and manufacturing year.

STRUCTURE OF RATINGS: Insurance group ratings have a numeric component and an alphabetical component. It is the numeric component that indicates the …

September Launch Of Two Eclectic Cars: Nissan Evalia And Renault Scala

Posted on February 10, 2023

September 2012 will see the launch of two spectacular vehicles – one an MPV and the other a 5-seater sedan. Interestingly, both sport almost identical specifications and will pose exquisite control and class. The former is a Nissan Evalia; the latter a Renault Scala.

What’s special about Nissan Evalia?

Evalia will come with chrome grilles, angular headlamps, and a massive exterior. However, it misses the exterior panache of Scala. Built to transport people and goods, it has a large console and ample body space. It is a 7-seater with great entertainment options, climatic AC (rear AC vents as well), CD, and radio. It has a 5-manual transmission with power steering, disk brakes in front, solid suspension, ABS, and electronic locking. …

Renault and Peugeot in the News

Posted on February 7, 2023

Battle ground is the best for brand’s comparison where you can compare two brands in terms of their features, services, offerings and other basic functionalities. Brand of any field can be easily compared with this platform. Among the car manufacturers in the market, people are found to be in somehow confusion that which brand car or spare parts of which brand will be perfectly suitable for them to have a comfortable riding experience. In battleground, however, such confusion will merely solve in an easy way. Two leading brands of the car manufacturing viz Renault and Peugeot are widely popular among the people and are in news today because their production and selling has reached down from the past year’s production …