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Renault to unveil new models

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Hot wheels:Managing Director, Renault India, Marc Nassif launching the Renault Fluence on Thursday.

HYDERABAD: Automobile major Renault is all set for its foray in the Indian market with a launch of ‘Koleos', its 4X4 SUV later this year and three more cars from its stable in the year 2012, including a small hatchback, said Marc Nassif, Managing Director, Renault India.

He was speaking to presspersons after the launch of its first car here, the luxury sedan ‘Fluence', touting it as the company's first, ‘built-in-India' set of wheels.

India was one of the three key markets in Renault's international development strategy, he said, adding that the ‘Fluence' was designed for the Asian markets and manufactured at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in the outskirts of Chennai.

Sudhir Rao, Renault India's Deputy Managing Director, described the launch as the first big milestone in their India story and that they would start 14 dealers across the country and ramping it up to 40 by the end of the year, position a full range of five cars and 100 dealerships by December 2012.

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