chennai riding high on the success of its small car kwid and suv duster range of models french car maker renault is well on its way to post its first ever double digit sales numbers this year according to a top company official first half of the calendar year january to june has been very good for us we have witnessed good growth till june i think we sold about 62000 units and in july we sold about 12000 i think the total will be 74000 units it is a milestone for us renault india country ceo and managing director sumit sawhney told reporters here the company which has a joint manufacturing facility with japaneseauto maker nissan at oragadam near chennai attracting investments of over rs 5500 crore has recently commenced third shift operations taking the total number of kwid range of cars produced to about 9900 units in july read also renault india to launch kwid with 1litre engine this month last year we sold about 48000 to 50000 units this year we are looking to double our sales volume compared to last year he said stating that the small car kwid has a three month waiting period for delivery he said the company was working in reducing it to one month over the next few months according to him there were more than 70000 units of kwid on road with the launch of kwid he said renault india has 15 per cent market share in that small car segment read also complete pv sales analysis for july 2016 to a query sawhney said in august renault india would introduce a new variant in kwid equipped with one litre engine and a special edition of its multipurpose vehicle lodgy the lodgy world edition will be introduced this month with more of personal features he added on the exports front he said the company began shipping of kwid to sri lanka last month and would soon enter nepal bhutan bangladesh markets we have started exports to sri lanka by this month end we will start exports to nepal bhutan bangladesh and south africa early next year we will be exporting to brazil he said on the companys previous target of 5 per cent market share in domestic auto market by 2017 he said renault india has 44 per cent market share and they were working on achieving it in 2016 itself on its distribution network he said the company already crossed 215 outlets and by the end of december 2016 it will be taken to 270 majority of our outlets will be in tierii and iii locations he said adding that renault india at the oragadam factory has total capacity of 480 lakh units and the company was operating at 65 per cent of plant capacity pti published on aug 5 2016 at 0243 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find