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Renault’s new flagship coupé-SUV.

Renault Rafale

Since the campaign to reconquer the C-segment - one of the main goals in the Renaulution strategic plan - is well under way with the Megane E-Tech 100% electric, Arkana E-Tech full hybrid and Austral E-Tech full hybrid success stories, it's time for Renault to make its next move on the D-segment with a completely new and daring model: the all new Renault Rafale.

Now that Renault has revamped its arsenal of technology for hybrid powertrains, chassis', and electronic equipment, it was time to use that engineering knowledge to create a new vehicle born and bred for driving pleasure and launch its new flagship: the all new Renault Rafale.

Rafale is a French word that derives from natural energy: wind, and is also an aeronautical reference. Aviation has played an important part in Renault's history: the Caudron-Renault Rafale, which flew at a record-breaking 277 mph in 1934, is only one example.

The all new Renault Rafale is the first production vehicle entirely designed according to the new visual language that Gilles Vidal has brought in as Head of Design Renault. It is ushering in a new era in Renault's design: it is visionary, daring, perfectly in tune with its time and tailor-made for a period when everything is moving ever faster.

The all new Renault Rafale also features up-to-the-minute connectivity and a 200 hp E-Tech full hybrid powertrain that is as efficient as it is frugal and uses recycled materials.

It was born to take driving pleasure to ever new heights and will be enhanced with technological breakthroughs that will rank it high up in the high-performance automotive universe with a new E-Tech 4x4 300 hp powertrain.


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^ There is literally a French fighter jet called the Rafale, so same name and "nationality" as the new car, but they go and take a photo with a Spitfire (or whatever it is) in the background...opportunity lost :ROFL:
 
Renault Rafale flagship SUV ushers in new design era for the French brand

Renault has ripped the covers off its new flagship SUV, the Rafale, which ushers in a new design era for the French brand.

Named after the Renault-powered Caudron Rafale aeroplane that set a world speed record of 443km/h back in 1934, the hybrid-only Renault Rafale is classified as a D-segment SUV with coupe-inspired lines.

Measuring 4.71 metres in length, it’s fairly close to the BMW X4 in terms of overall size.

This is Renault’s first vehicle to be designed completely in accordance with design head Gilles Vidal’s new visual identity for the brand, which you would also have seen the first signs of in the recently announced Clio facelift.

 
The Renault Rafale has landed, and gets a high-performance variant

As promised, the French car maker brings 'gusty wind' to the 54th Paris Air Show

Renault has launched yet another electrified vehicle. With some arguably tenuous connections to aircraft and French for ‘gusty wind’, the Renault Rafale is here and it’s as trope-y as ever there was a trope to be had.
So what do we know about the coupe version of the Austral? We already knew that it’s being built on the CMF-CD platform. And we also knew it would be a hybrid. What we didn’t know is that Renault had a high-performance variant planned. Of course it did.

The standard Rafale has a 1.2-litre three-pot turbo engine that guzzles petrol politely, eking out a claimed 60mpg and 151lb ft torque – with the help of a 50kW electric motor.
For customers wanting more than the standard 197bhp E-tech powertrain, there’s going to be a high-performance plug-in hybrid available. That ramps things up to 296bhp, with some 4x4 fun thrown in too.

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The Renault Rafale has landed, and gets a high-performance variant

As promised, the French car maker brings 'gusty wind' to the 54th Paris Air Show
www.topgear.com www.topgear.com
 
bluepoole said:
^ There is literally a French fighter jet called the Rafale, so same name and "nationality" as the new car, but they go and take a photo with a Spitfire (or whatever it is) in the background...opportunity lost :ROFL:
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So to correct myself...I am not too clued up on old aircraft but I still felt that the nose of the aircraft in the photos is maybe a little bit too long to be a Spitfire. So after investigating, it turns out it is actually a Caudron C460 (nicknamed, as could be guessed by now, the Rafale), an old French racing aircraft.

So Renault got it right after all. Sorry, Renault :giggle:...but the fighter jet Rafale would still have been a little bit cooler:cool:
 
bluepoole said:
^ There is literally a French fighter jet called the Rafale, so same name and "nationality" as the new car, but they go and take a photo with a Spitfire (or whatever it is) in the background...opportunity lost :ROFL:
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Literally retarded.
 
bluepoole said:
^ There is literally a French fighter jet called the Rafale, so same name and "nationality" as the new car, but they go and take a photo with a Spitfire (or whatever it is) in the background...opportunity lost :ROFL:
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I think that is why there is a thrust lever in the centre console.
 
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