LAST AUTO NEWS – UNWANTED KOLEOS AXED
Last Auto account – Unwanted Koleos axed Renault calls time on bunched SUV in UK afterwards apathetic sales, administration accusation acclaim crunch
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It’s alone been on auction for two years, but Renault’s Koleos is getting axed in the UK due to apathetic sales. No added examples of the bunched SUV will be imported, with the scattering of cars in the banker arrangement the endure to be awash in this country. “It’s in the amount adviser at the moment, but I agnosticism it will be in the next one,” said a Renault spokesman. “We’ve got beneath than 20 cars larboard in stock, and if they’re gone that’s it.”
Only 2,875 examples of the Koleos accept begin homes in the UK – not abundant for administration to absolve the amount of befitting it in the range. The aggregation hasn’t articular a bright acumen why it’s been a flop, but says the timing of its barrage – as the acclaim crisis took authority in July 2008 – is partly to blame. According to insiders, that meant the archetypal never got the aboriginal sales drive a new archetypal needs to be a hit. It has accepted accepted in added markets, with Spanish buyers snapping up 3,400 already this year.
It’s a sad end for one of the a lot of agilely advancing new bunched SUVs of the endure decade. Show models in 2000 and 2006 bore the Koleos name afore the assembly car was revealed.
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