new delhi it will be a solo run for french car major renault in india as it expands beyond its oneproduct joint venture with the mahindra group that failed to impress buyers and ended up as a moneylosing business for the two companies the carlos ghosnled company announced solo production and distribution plans for new products including a small car renault on tuesday said it would launch as many as five new cars over the next four years and these would be across product spectrum including the bigvolume hatchback segmentindia is a tough market but a growing market it is an opportunity for us to start again sudhir rao renault indias coo told toi over phone from mumbai he said renault plans to set up a new distribution network which should grow to about 150 dealerships by 2014 the company plans to make new vehicles at its factory near chennai which is built in partnership with group company nissan and will have a capacity of 4 lakh units per annumrenaults announcement of solo operations puts an end to speculation on whether it would include mahindra mahindra mm in its expansion plans with logan failing to cut much ice in the market relations between the two had soured prompting them to take a fresh look at the partnership as reported by toi in its october 7 2009 edition sales of logan produced at mms nashik factory have been falling for more than a year going down 61 during april 2009 and january 2010 to 4445 vehicles against a backdrop of 25 growth in domestic car sales rao declined to give any specific comment on logan jv and said renault is talking to mm about a restructuring and a decision will be made in 30 to 45 days we are exploring various options for the jv as a business and logan as a product he said mms automotive sector president pawan goenka said the company wanted continuity in logan but declined to elaborate marc nassif country head for renault in india said the french car major hopes to sell over 100000 units annually by 2014 and will introduce the fluence and koleos models in 2011