CHENNAI: French auto-major Renault India would focus on petrol run products and has lined up new variants of its existing models, besides a new “sub-4 metre SUV” in 2020, a top company official said on Tuesday.
Renault India Operations, Country CEO, Venkatram Mamillapalle said the company would roll out the BS-VI range of products and an automatic transmission version of its latest car ‘Triber’ next year.
Speaking after rolling out the first lot of Triber range of cars to the South African market, he said the company was ending its K9K Diesel engine series
“K9K diesel (engine) we are ending”, he told reporters.
Mamillapalle said the company was also phasing out its Multi Purpose Vehicle Lodgy from its stable and did not plan any renovation on the vehicle or even a BS-VI variant.
He said stocks of Lodgy cars had been sold out.
“It is not the question that we want to end it… We dont want to get into diesel, so Lodgy ends there. We are not going to renovate. All (future launches) will be gasoline, including (premium SUV) Captur”, he said.
Renault India currently retails the KWID, Triber, Sports Utility Vehicle Duster and the premium SUV Captur.
On what was the contribution of diesel range of cars to the company in 2019, he said “50 per cent of sales volume was contributed from the Duster diesel engine range of cars.
“In future it will be petrol Duster only”, he said.
On future launches, he said the company would introduce a new variant of the Triber.
“The BS-VI variant will come in the middle or end of January and then we will look for AMT (automatic transmission) moving forward”, he said. (AGENCIES)
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