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What else can be said then Fernando Alonso won Sunday his second straight Grand Prix in the Renault? Well that Massa finished seventh and Hamilton 12th. Read more ...

News from the Paddocks - Force India to McLaren, Alonso stays with Renault, F1 politcal storm in the UK, more discussions on future rules changes Read more ...

What else can be said then Fernando Alonso won Sunday his second straight Grand Prix in the Renault? Well that Massa finished seventh and Hamilton 12th. Read more ...

News from the Paddocks - Force India to McLaren, Alonso stays with Renault, F1 to return to the UK Read more ...

Renault on Friday named Patrick Pélata chief operating officer (COO) responsible for day-today operations, reporting to president and CEO Carlos Ghosn. He takes up his new role on Monday (13 October). Read more ...

Renault has appointed Patrick Pelata chief operating officer, giving him responsibility for the French carmaker's day-to-day operations. Read more ...

Renault hopes electric ZE Concept will be official car of Olympics Village in 2012. Read more ...

French carmaker Renault and power group EDF have signed an agreement to develop a large scale electric car project, starting in France. Read more ...

Renault put the new Clio Estate on sale. The price will start from 21,000 $ , 1600 $ more than the five-door Clio
The entry level engine will be a 75bhp 1.2l 16V engine and the upper level engine will be a 1.5 dCi 106bhp engine. The price estimated is 30,000 USD for the flagship

The new bigger Scenic will hit the market in 2009 but it will hit the Paris Motor Show in October .

There is no official price on this car , we will keep looking
The engines will be : a 1.5 and 2.0 l dCi motor and a 1.5 petrol engine at 100bhp
The new Scenic will have a bigger load capacity and a completely flat load area

Things are looking good for Renault

This is the Renaultsport Twingo 133

Prices will start from 20,000 $ for the entry level version and it will go on sale in September .
The first 133 people that will order a Twingo will receive a driving tuition and a day at the track for free . This is a great marketing scheme for Renault

The Twingo 133 will have a 133bhp 1.6l 16V engine , and they say that it has lower emissions. The engine sound is deeper and gives the overall car a racing image

Peugeot will launch the 3008 this year in fall at the Paris Motor Show . This new Peugeot car will be a compact MPV based on the 308 model .
By doing this Peugeot enters the family MPV segment and it is expected to leave a deep mark and it will run head to head with the Renault Scenic and the Citroen Picasso .

The 3008 model will have 5 doors and 7 doors . There are no official details released by Peugeot all we know is that it will be at the Paris motor show .
Rumors say that there will be a 4×4 version also

This is the new Laguna Coupe from Renault . First displayed at the Frankfurt motor show last year as a concept car , it is ready for mass production . The car will come with 2 options in terms of engine , a 235 hp V6 diesel engine and a 240 hp 3.5l V6 gas engine both capable of doing 0-60 mph in 7 seconds .

It will be 4.64 meters in length and as we can see from the pictures it is well proportioned

Renault has presented the new Laguna Coupe at the Canned Film Festival this year
The price is unknown , and the official release will be at the Paris Motor Show later this year .

This should be a seven-seat crossover car that is suposed to be a hybrid too
The luxury division is starting the development of the new Renault that will be launched in 2012
Renault stated that this car will be packed with technology starting from the engine and going up to the rear window .

This seven seater car will have a four-wheel-drive transmission and will be created for the road (not the trail)

This car will be built to rival the Mercedes R-Class

Picture taken with a camera phone in the Dacia Factory. The new version of Dacia Logan will be on the market later this year .

The Facelift will be mostly on the exterior , but the manufacturer might modify the interior also . We will get back to you as soon as we find out more. As you can see the front side and headlamps are redesigned  , also the there will be a new Dacia Logo .

The back side also was redesigned , no picture yet.

As we all  know, in the past ,the Dacia Logan had a huge success in eastern Europe. The Renault influence can be seen clearly

FIAT has reached the lowest CO2 emission value in 2007 . Jato (a world leader in the automotive business) has confirmed that FIAT has overthrown larger brands in the emission department .

FIAT  scored a value of 137,3 g/km compared to the other brands : Peugeot (141.9 g/km), Citroen (142.2 g/km), Renault (146.4 g/km), Toyota (141.9 g/km), Ford (149.1 g/km), Opel (152.9 g/km), Volkswagen (161.7 g/km), BMW (176.7g/km) and Mercedes (188.4 g/km)

As we can all tell from this report , the small Fiat cars are pretty green . Also the executives of this company said that they are still working on getting the emissions even lower , the Eco Drive system developed with Microsoft will be the key to make the green greener

The Twingo CC is aimed to be one of the cheapest roadster around . The price is expected to start from £10,000. His competitors are Vauxhall (Opel) Tigra and Peugeot 207 CC , and as you can see they do have something to be afraid of.

This awesome car will be built at Renault’s factory in Dieppe making it a very sporty car. A genuine two-seater it is Renault’s first car like this since 2005 (Clio V6) . Although buyers will have only 1 option : 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine , the manufacturer says it will be an active car , a car for the young and the old .

In the future we may expect a 131bhp 1.6l engine : Twingo RS that should be the hot version . At this moment Twingo CC will reach only to 120bhp “only