Renault Koleos Reportedly Getting Second Generation Model by 2016

Renault’s first ever SUV, the Koleos, will receive a second-generation model. According to Renault Australia managing director Justin Hocevar, the French carmaker will offer an all-new mid-size SUV to replace the Koleos by 2016.

“The Koleos is getting a little old. It’s getting towards the tail end of its life-cycle. But we won’t see a new one until 2016,” Hocevar told Car Advice. Launched internationally in 2008, the Koleos will be eight years old when the new model arrives.

While the current Renault Koleos is based upon Nissan’s C platform, which also underpinned the previous generations of the X-Trail/Rogue and Qashqai SUVs, the new model will get the Common Module Family architecture from the new X-Trail.

“It will be built on the common module platform, and it will share a lot with the X-Trail,” Hocevar revealed. The ageing Koleos managed 1,639 sales in Australia last year, a 47 percent increase on the previous year and a record for the model in the country. Sales were boosted by the revised model lineup and significant discounts on the entry-level model.

For 2014, Renault Australia expects the Koleos to deliver similar, if not better sales results than last year.

By Dan Mihalascu