{"id":1817448,"date":"2026-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1817448"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:00:00","slug":"the-renault-bridger-concept-previews-a-chunky-little-crossover-thatll-be-built-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1817448","title":{"rendered":"The Renault Bridger concept previews a chunky little crossover that\u2019ll be built in India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you may have noticed if you\u2019ve looked at today\u2019s TopGear.com home page, Renault is currently outlining its excruciatingly-titled \u2018futuREady\u2019 plan that\u2019ll apparently drive its growth between now and 2030.<\/p>\n

But that growth won\u2019t just be in Europe. In fact, Renault wants to be selling more than two million vehicles per year by 2030, and it wants half of those sales to take place outside of its home continent. So, alongside the launch of 12 new cars in Europe in the next few years (plus any Alpines and Dacias), we\u2019ll also see 14 new Renault-branded models in other international markets. Busy times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This \u2018brand offensive\u2019 will be led in part by the brilliantly boxy thing you see up above. That\u2019s the Renault Bridger Concept \u2013 a teeny little B-segment SUV that\u2019ll launch in production form before the end of 2027, before being built in India for both the local market and \u201cother international markets\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cRenault now relies on robust hubs in Morocco, T\u00fcrkiye, Latin America, South Korea and India, where we already have strong industrial and commercial presence,\u201d said Renault brand boss and chief growth officer for the Renault Group, Fabrice Cambolive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWith futuREady, our ambition is clear: to strengthen our positions in our key markets with products that are fully adapted to each region, electrified and true to the Renault’s DNA. Our five hubs are growth drivers. Their role is to develop, produce and export competitive vehicles, working with our technical bases shared around three global platforms. This unique combination of local agility and global coherence is the key to our acceleration outside Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ah yes, there\u2019s the obligatory mention of electrification. You may have spotted the Bridger\u2019s lack of exhaust \u2013 the production car will be based on the RGMP small platform and it\u2019ll be available in electric, hybrid and combustion form \u2018depending on the market\u2019. Renault wants 50 per cent of its sales outside of Europe to be electrified in some way by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Bridger certainly looks the part, doesn\u2019t it? We\u2019re big fans of the chunky, upright design and those squared-off wheelarches. There\u2019s also a full-size 18in spare wheel on the back and 200mm of ground clearance, but the whole car is less than four metres long. Still 400 litres of boot space though. Renault describes this thing as \u201can urban adventurer\u201d, which rather makes it sound like someone who doesn\u2019t care much for trespassing laws.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let\u2019s just hope this look makes it through to production. That \u2018Beige Dune Satin\u2019 paint can come to the party too.<\/p>\n

Last year Renault sold 620,000 vehicles outside Europe. Reckon the world will buy 400,000 Bridgers per year to help it hit its punchy target?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may have noticed if you\u2019ve looked at today\u2019s TopGear.com home page, Renault is currently outlining its excruciatingly-titled \u2018futuREady\u2019 plan that\u2019ll apparently drive its growth between now and 2030. But that growth won\u2019t just be in Europe. In fact, Renault wants to be selling more than two million vehicles per year by 2030, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1817448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}