Successful crossover under the knife
The Renault Captur has been one of the most popular Renault cars in the Netherlands for years. The current model has been running for a number of years now, which means that behind the scenes a refreshed variant has long been ready to extend the Captur success. In these photos you see that facelifted Renault Captur for the first time.
The day after Peugeot pulled the curtain on the first 2008 in 2013, Renault presented the very first Captur to the light of day. Compact crossovers in the B-segment were not a new concept ten years ago as cars such as the Nissan Juke and Toyota Urban Cruiser had been around for a number of years, but the little leggy was not yet fully established. That changed quickly. From its first sales year (2014) to 2020, the Captur was the most popular Renault in the Netherlands after the Clio and the current second generation even managed to overthrow the Clio in 2021 and 2022. That second generation Renault Captur also has several years of experience, which means that it will not be long before the successful crossover gets a facelift.
The Renault Captur as you know it now.
Just under four years after the presentation of the current Renault Captur, the model gets a facelift. That side point session will not be a relatively mild one as you may be used to from Renault, but rather a fairly drastic one. Despite the fact that the Captur is still fanatically plastered on the front and rear in these photos, that is already clear. The entire front is being overhauled. The Renault Captur gets new headlights that, like the recently facelifted Clio, are accompanied by vertical, hook-shaped flares that plunge far down. The crossover gets a new grille, a revised front bumper and it looks like even the bonnet is replaced with a new one. What changes at the rear is not yet entirely clear. The part that we see of the rear lights does correspond to what you encounter in the same place on the current Captur.
You probably don’t have to count on major technical changes. The Renault Captur is next to it with petrol engines and bi-fuel machines that like LPG, namely already with hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains. As far as is known, an electric Captur will not be available.
Renault Captur in the Netherlands
Peugeot will soon present the facelifted 2008 and it seems that Renault will follow soon after with the introduction of its updated compact crossover. As of 2013, Renault has sold nearly 66,000 Capturs in the Netherlands, counting the model from number 7 in Renault’s Dutch sales top-10. In that ranking, the Captur has to tolerate models that are no longer sold, but have been sold for much longer than the Captur. Think of the Renault 19, Laguna and Scénic.
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