The International Game Plan, reinventing Renault on the global stage

Beyond Europe: where Renault International Game Plan comes into play

When we launched the RIGP at the end of 2023, the objective was simple to articulate but demanding to deliver: accelerate growth beyond Europe, strengthen our competitiveness, modernize our international offering and provide Renault with a truly global backbone.

To support this ambition, we rely on five major hubs: Latin America, Morocco, Türkiye, India and South Korea. This network enables us to localize production in order to stay close to our customers, while leveraging the strength of a global organization.

Within these hubs, our teams design, develop, and produce our international models, relying on two key platforms:

This organization allows us to move quickly and respond effectively to the specific expectations of each market.

International expansion: thinking global, acting local

Beyond this hub-based organization (regional centers with full autonomy to design, produce, and commercialize vehicles), our success is driven by a simple “recipe”:

This strong local anchoring allows us to better understand customer expectations, offer vehicles that are truly market-relevant and enhance our competitiveness.

Within this global organization, each hub expresses a distinct facet of our strategy. India is the most recent illustration: a fast-growing automotive market (now the world’s third largest), a fully consolidated ecosystem and therefore an ideal platform for a model such as the new Duster.

New Duster in India: the return of an icon, more sophisticated than ever

In India, Duster is a name steeped in history: twelve years ago, it created the compact SUV segment. It became a symbol of adventure, robustness and freedom. With this new generation, we are opening a new chapter, featuring a completely redesigned exterior, useful everyday technologies (including OpenR Link with built-in Google, a first in its segment in India) and the upcoming introduction of E-Tech hybrid powertrains, fully aligned with our ambition to electrify beyond Europe.

We made a clear choice: to preserve what made Duster successful (its driving comfort, robustness and versatility), while bringing it firmly into the present. This new generation reinterprets the Duster DNA to meet the expectations of the Indian market in terms of technology, connectivity and electrification.

Duster therefore embodies our ability to mobilize an entire hub to reinvent an iconic model, with the agility and relevance required by a market as dynamic as India.

It is also part of a broader momentum. Since the announcement of the RIGP, we have already unveiled five models:

These launches demonstrate that the plan is being executed, concretely, region by region. In India, this momentum is part of a long-term vision. With a fully integrated ecosystem in Chennai and a structured product roadmap, the launch of the new Duster marks the first milestone of a trajectory designed to unfold over time.

Setting the stage for the next phase

To continue transforming Renault on the international stage, we are activating three key dynamics.

The first focuses on our strategic partnerships.
Our collaboration with Geely in South Korea has been decisive, giving us access to the CMA platform, a critical asset for effectively addressing the D and E segments. Building on this success, we are now extending this partnership to Brazil. By combining our industrial, technological and commercial strengths, we will accelerate the development of Renault and Geely ranges. This will further enhance the competitiveness of our plants in Curitiba and Busan, which stand as key pillars of this next-generation industrial ecosystem.

The second dynamic relates to our global competitiveness.
Our five hubs enable us to remain competitive worldwide, adapt our models rapidly, produce them more efficiently and fully leverage the strength of highly efficient local ecosystems.

Finally, the third dynamic is electrification.
Our ambition is clear: to offer customers the right technologies, tailored to the needs of each market. Filante is hybrid from launch, and we will rely on Geely’s GEA platform to further strengthen our range of zero- and low-emission vehicles in Brazil. Wherever it makes sense, we want to accelerate the electrification of our lineup. In India, the new Duster fully embodies this approach by introducing hybrid powertrains to our local range for the first time.

The Renault International Game Plan provides the structure for our global ambition. It guides our investments, our partnerships, our industrial footprint and our product decisions.