Renault race to Russia

Automakers look for safe harbour on emerging markets as rest of the globe urged into austerity.
Russia’s car market has become attractive to car makers since car sales continue to increase with 41% growth in the first ten months of 2011. “According to the results of 2011, we are expecting about 1,7 million vehicles would be produced in Russia next year, it would be a 41% growth comparing to 2010 and a historic high”, Stanly Root from Pricewaterhouse Cooper’s said in a report. The increase of output among foreign automaker will be higher than among domestic car makers, he added.
The French automobile company Renault is going to increase the production capacity by 10% next year.

"We have found an opportunity to increase production capacity by 10%, from 30 to 33 automobiles per hour," announced the company's chief for Russia Bruno Ancelin. The annual production would be increased by 175,000 vehicles in the middle of next year, according to him.But "everything will depend on how sales on the market go", he added.
“The governmental car and van scrappage scheme and a rapid loan growth increased car sales in Russia”, says Mikhail Pak, analyst from the Aton investment company. “The second reason was a benign economic backdrop: the people who postponed buying a car in 2009, they made a purchase in 2010-2011”. The sales of cars produced in Russia have shown the highest growth, he added.

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Renault and work

A far-reaching program designed to integrate France’s poorest citizens back into work has been launched by Renault. Called Renault MOBILIZ, it’s a unique social/business initiative that aims to make motoring more accessible for those who can’t afford a car.It is estimated that as many as eight million people in France live below the poverty line. Because they cannot afford to buy, run or maintain a car – and especially if they live in rural areas with poor public transport facilities – their lack of mobility means it is difficult, if not impossible, to find work or to fully enter society. And without work, they’ll stay in poverty… it’s a vicious circle.
Renault MOBILIZ, which was officially unveiled by Chairman Carlos Ghosn on 11 July, will become an essential part of Renault’s corporate social responsibility efforts.
Sustainable mobility is vital to an individual’s economic development and his or her social integration. Indeed, a lack of mobility is the fourth biggest hindrance to finding a job behind housing, health and training.By joining forces with established French campaigning organisation Voiture &

Renault's Twizy:

The Renault Twizy was to be delivered to the house of friends in London with whom I was staying for the night. We were out at dinner when the car was unloaded.
Excited chatter and laughter were resounding in the night air as we turned into my friends’ street. Mobile phone cameras were flashing. Few cars could draw such a throng. People who would not even notice a Ferrari were elbowing to get a better look inside this tiny, high-domed two-seater that makes a Smart car look like a lorry.
It helped the crowd nosing around that my Twizy had doors but no windows; cheaper versions have no sides at all. As it was so evidently unsafe to park on the street, my friends asked the vicar of the church opposite to open his gated car park. I then had to insert my large body into the midget Twizy through its scissor door and figure out how to get it going, which made everyone fall about. The stages of start-up for this all-electric vehicle are obvious, as is the push-button transmission selector on the dashboard that simply offers D for a single-speed drive, N for neutral and R for reverse. But it took me about three minutes to wangle the parking-brake free, during which one of the audience declared that this show was better than the movies.

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