Renault Kwid

The Renault Kwid is a crossover city car that Renault initially designed for the Indian market and launched in 2015. It was unveiled at Chennai on 20 May 2015 by Carlos Ghosn and went on sale in September 2015 at a starting price of 257,000 rupees, with 25,000 bookings in two weeks. It is the first car on the CMF-A platform developed jointly by Renault and Nissan, was designed by an engineering team in India led by Gérard Detourbet, and has 98 per cent parts localisation. At launch the only engine was a three-cylinder 799 cc unit of 40 kW with a five-speed manual, and a 999 cc engine of 50 kW arrived in August 2016. An improved Brazilian version followed in 2017 for Latin America. Its battery electric version, the Renault City K-ZE, launched in 2019, is built in China and has been exported to Europe since 2021 as the Dacia Spring Electric and to Latin America since 2022 as the Renault Kwid E-Tech.