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Renault Group’s January West European rise in new car sales compared to same month last year

Renault in particular, in tandem with its still highflying Dacia budget brand, substantially outperformed industry expectations in January, according to AID’s provisional January car sales figures for Western Europe. 

Sharp trendbucking increases in France and the UK helped lift Renault Group’s total West European January car sales to just over 82,000 units. 

That’s a 15 per cent increase compared with the opening month of last year. 

Fully in keeping with last year, Renault’s bargain-basement Dacia offshoot appears to have made most of the running. But its Renault parent was no slow coach either...more