Renault Symbioz new for 2027Renault Symbioz 2026

Renault is planning to utterly overhaul its Australian line-up with the debut of six recent models by mid-2027, initiating with the gentle- and complete-hybrid Symbioz – an unlimited, Spanish-constructed SUV that straddles the runt and medium segments, and shares powerful of its DNA with the smaller Captur SUV.

Riding on the identical CMF-B platform as the facelifted Captur (now not yet confirmed for Australia), the Symbioz shares the Captur’s inserting recent front-cease with Renault’s most up to date procedure language, as effectively as its 2639mm wheelbase measurement, 1797mm width and 1567mm prime.

However the Symbioz expands overall measurement to 4412mm (from 4228mm) for a class-main 624 litres of boot put in European dapper with its adjustable rear bench seat slid forward (or 492 litres with the rear seat slid aid).

The Symbioz will even change into Renault’s first ‘sequence-parallel’ hybrid supplied in Australia – headlined by an 80kW/107Nm 1.8-litre petrol four-cylinder engine paired with a 36kW/205Nm electrical motor and supported by a 1.4kWh battery pack.

All thru acceleration up to 60km/h, this powertrain uses the electrical motor in predicament of the petrol engine, lowering fuel consumption by a claimed 40 p.c in quit-start up metropolis driving. When braking, coasting or decelerating, the hybrid machine recovers energy to have up the battery.

In European procedure, the Symbioz Hybrid has a mixed WLTP fuel-consumption figure of 4.6L/100km – a number that is possible to be lower when measured in opposition to Australia’s ADR81/02 traditional. Renault Australia claims a WLTP driving range of up to 1000km.

The European Symbioz Hybrid manages 0-100km/h in a claimed 9.1 seconds.

The entry-stage, gentle-hybrid Symbioz aspects the identical 1.3-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder as the facelifted Captur, offering outputs of 104kW/245Nm and transferring pressure by potential of a seven-flee twin-take dangle of transmission to the front wheels.

Due right here within the second half of of 2026, Renault Australia is yet to yell pricing or verify the Symbioz variant line-up and accurate specification, nonetheless it has outlined key tools highlights.

These consist of:

• A panoramic sunroof known as ‘Solarbay’ which has an embedded filament (Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal or PDLC) that would possibly well be dimmed on demand
• Top class Harman Kardon audio with nine audio system alongside with subwoofer
• Google constructed-in linked companies
• 10.4-scamper portrait infotainment conceal
• 10.25-scamper instrument cluster
• 18- or 19-scamper alloy wheels

In phrases of European driving dynamics, Renault claims the Symbioz gives effectively-calibrated security skills, easy-to-employ cabin controls and would possibly well also just stand out as a runt SUV for folks that don’t are looking to pressure a ‘identical-identical’ vehicle.

It advantages from the chassis upgrades supplied to the Captur in 2024, alongside with revised suspension geometry, retuned dampers and recalibrated electrical strength steering for “a extra dynamic fling” with improved physique administration, enhancing its stress-free-to-pressure charm.