India, Jan. 28 -- In an event that Francisco Hidalgo, Renault India's Vuce-President for Sales and Marketing described as the 'largest ever' car launch in the world, the French carmaker took the covers off the next-generation Renault Duster. With 15,000 people attending the launch at Chennai's Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, Renault was also marking a new chapter in India.

The French carmaker recently bought out their erstwhile'alliance partner' from their previously shared 400,000 unit manufacturing facility at Oragadam outside Chennai. Sources said that Renault had been forced to consolidate European operations after the closure of their facilities in Russia due to sanctions, which led to Indian operations being sidelined over the past few y...