New Renault Rafale

Take it from me, it does not look like a Peugeot 408.

The 408 is low and long and svelte and quite well proportioned.

This Renault Rafale is a badge engineered Nissan Ariya and the Ariya is a horrible dumpy looking pudding, like the Skoda Enyaq coupé or Merc GLE Coupé.

And being built by Renault as it is, the Rafale will be a dreadful crap box, quality wise.

My advice, if you like those proportions, is buy the Ariya itself, or better yet the Enyaq.

Ditto. Renault have quietly been making decent cars for years. Yer man's chat together with the "take it from me" line can be taken with a large pinch of salt.

Cool advert, but Renault Deserve as much stick as Ford got for calling their EV crossover a Mustang. The original was no fighter plane, and a crossover definitely isn't.

Let's not forget SAAB either lol

Don't think it's a badge engineered version of the Nissan Ariya, since that is a pure EV on the CMF-EV platform and the Rafale is a plug-in hybrid on the CMF-CD platform.

There's enough suckers for the Hyundai Santa Fe or Tucson, what's one more crossover for the Irish public to fall for?

I just looked at carzone and this hybrid starts from 51495 and the top one is 64945. Im sorry but someone is going to take a massive hit with depreciation.

It's a shame it has that horrible loud noisey engine in it which I find off putting when I drove one other wise it's a really nice car. They priced the Rafale and Austral stupidity expensive

Im not in the market for new car but i like to browse. My 10yo car is just fine ATM. I would not be attarcte to a hybrid. I would go all Electric or Petrol. I feel a hybrid can be twice the trouble in making. You can get all the problems of a petrol and an electric car in one.