Renault Arkana

The Renault Arkana is a compact crossover SUV with a sloping rear roofline that Renault debuted in Russia in May 2019. The Russian car is assembled at the Moscow plant on the heavily revised B0+ platform used by the Captur and Duster and uses a 1.3 litre turbo petrol engine with a CVT. A second version, built on the more advanced CMF-B platform and related to the second-generation Captur, was introduced in South Korea in February 2020 as the Renault Samsung XM3, then reached core European markets in September 2020 as the Arkana, with a mild hybrid 1.3 litre turbo petrol engine. In former Yugoslav countries it is sold as the Mégane Conquest, because the name Arkana recalls Arkan, a Serbian paramilitary commander. The model was facelifted in July 2023 and arrived in Australia in August 2021.