Renault Unveils  The New Austral-Price and Features

After the launching of the name, Renault has just released the Austral. According to the French brand, it will arrive in next spring.

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but you can expect it to cost more than the current Renault Kadjar. Around £22,000 seems sensible.

The Austral is currently entering the “confirmation tests”, during which around a hundred prototypes will have to cover around two million kilometers , by lands of France, Spain, Germany and Romania.

With these tests, Renault hopes to validate, for example, the configurations and regulations foreseen for the new CMF-CD3 platform , as well as the performance of driving support technologies, the quality of soundproofing, or even the comfort of the suspension.

The Austral's powertains will be all  gasoline and electrified . Most of them are even unprecedented in the car manufacturer's offer: a new generation E-Tech Hybrid engine, a 1.3 TCe mild-hybrid 12V engine and a completely new 1.2 TCe mild-hybrid 48V engine.

With these options, Renault hopes to offer record levels of efficiency , with emissions from 105 g/km of CO2, in addition to a maximum power of up to 200 hp.