Renault Duster Gets More Expensive

By Ajinkya

Renault India will be hiking prices of its compact SUV Duster. The French manufacturer will also be increasing cost by one percent of two other vehicles in its line-up. They are justifying the increase in prices due to the increase in raw material costs.

Renault India will increase the price of its Duster, Scala and Pulse. The French based manufacturer of passenger vehicles will hike prices with immediate effect. During the automobile slowdown and even with the recent excise cut, Renault has to increase its prices to avoid losses.

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Renault India provides the Duster with two petrol and diesel engines. Both the engines will be available in two states of tune, however, it will be available only in manual transmission. They recently introduced an adventure edition of the compact SUV.

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The French manufacturer is expected to refresh its Duster in India. The compact SUV will receive significant cosmetic updates. The engine maybe tweaked to extract more power from the frugal engine. Renault is expected to launch the Duster facelift by September, 2014.

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Renault Duster shares its platform with Nissan Terrano. It would be interesting to see if Nissan too increases prices of its vehicles in India. So far, they have not reported hiking prices of its vehicles.

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Article Published On: Saturday, July 5, 2014, 10:16 [IST]
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