Renault Kiger Specifications

The Renault Kiger is a compact SUV designed for the Indian market, offering a blend of style, performance, and features. Here's a breakdown of its key specifications and features:

• Stylish Exterior: The Kiger features a bold and contemporary exterior design with a striking chrome grille, sleek LED DRLs, aggressive bumpers, sharp creases on the side profile, and stylish alloy wheels, giving it a sporty and premium look.

• Spacious Interior: The Kiger offers a modern and stylish all-black interior with ample legroom and headroom for the driver and passengers, well-cushioned and supportive seats, and 405 litres of boot space.

• Touchscreen Infotainment: The top variant has an 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system that supports Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, along with a 7-inch digital instrument cluster.

• Automatic Climate Control: The Kiger offers the convenience of automatic climate control with rear AC vents for all-around comfort.

• Engine Options: It is available with two petrol engine choices – a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated engine producing 71bhp and 96Nm of torque, and a 1.0-litre turbo-petrol engine delivering 98.6 bhp and 160 Nm of torque.

• Transmission Choices: Both engines can be paired with a 5-speed manual gearbox, while the naturally aspirated engine also gets an AMT option, and the turbo-petrol gets a CVT automatic.

• Impressive Mileage: The Kiger offers an impressive mileage range of 18.24 to 20.5 kmpl, with the manual petrol variant delivering 20.5 kmpl.

• High Ground Clearance: The Kiger's ground clearance is 205mm, which allows it to easily handle various terrains.

• Safety Features: It comes equipped with standard safety features like dual front airbags, ABS with EBD, electronic stability control, and rear parking sensors, with additional features like four airbags and a rear camera in higher variants.

• Convenient Features: The Kiger offers features like a push-button start, a cooled glovebox, cruise control, a wireless charger, and power-adjustable ORVMs for added convenience.

• Bold Colour Options: It is available in a range of vibrant colour options, including Radiant Red, Caspian Blue, Moonlight Silver, and Stealth Black, allowing buyers to personalise their Kiger.

Specs & Features: Renault Kiger vs Rivals

The Re­nault Kiger is a new compact SUV. It aims to find its place among many popular mode­ls. These include Mahindra XUV300, Nissan Magnite­, Kia Sonet, Maruti Suzuki Brezza, Hyundai Venue­, Tata Nexon, Citroen C3 and Maruti Suzuki Fronx. The­ compact SUV market is very competitive­. Each model offers a mix of style, pe­rformance and features.

Renault Kiger vs Mahindra XUV300

• Mileage: The Kiger offers a claimed mileage of 20.5 kmpl for the manual petrol variant and 19.03 kmpl for the automatic petrol variant. The XUV300 delivers a claimed mileage of up to 20.1 kmpl for the diesel variant.

• Dimensions: The Mahindra XUV300 is larger than the Kiger, with a length of 3995 mm, width of 1821mm, and height of 1617mm, compared to the Kiger's 3991mm length, 1750mm width and 1605mm height.

• Performance: With its more powerful engine options, especially the 1.5-litre diesel and the 1.2-litre turbo-petrol, the Mahindra XUV300 is likely to offer better performance and drivability compared to the Kiger.

• Powertrain: The Kiger has two petrol engine options: a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated unit (71bhp/96 Nm) and a 1.0-litre turbo-petrol (98.6bhp/160 Nm). The XUV300 gets a 1.2-litre turbo-petrol (130bhp/230Nm), a 1.5-litre diesel (117 bhp/300 Nm), and a 1.2-litre turbo-petrol (110bhp/200 Nm).

• Transmission: The Kiger offers a 5-speed manual, 5-speed AMT (with the naturally aspirated engine), and a CVT (with the turbo-petrol). The XUV300 gets a 6-speed manual and a 6-speed AMT option with petrol and diesel engines.

• Features: Both SUVs come well-equipped with features like touchscreen infotainment systems, automatic climate control, and rear AC vents. However, the XUV300 offers additional features like a sunroof, cruise control, and connected car tech in higher variants.

• Safety: The Kiger gets standard safety features like dual front airbags, ABS with EBD, and electronic stability control, with up to four airbags in the top variant. The XUV300 has a 5-star Global NCAP rating and gets up to six airbags, corner braking control, and parking sensors.

Renault Kiger vs Nissan Magnite

• Dimensions: The Kige­r and Magnite SUVs share the same­ platform. Their dimensions are similar: Kige­r measures 3991 mm in length, 1750mm in width, and 1605 mm in height. Magnite me­asures 3994 mm long, 1758 mm wide, and 1572mm high.

• Seating Capacity: Both are 5-seater compact SUVs.

• Engine Options: Both SUVs share the same engine options – a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated petrol engine (71bhp/96 Nm) and a 1.0-litre turbo-petrol engine (98.6bhp/160 Nm for Kiger, 98.6bhp/152 Nm for Magnite CVT).

• Transmission: Kige­r offers 5-speed manual/AMT with naturally aspirate­d petrol, CVT with turbo-petrol. Magnite has a 5-spe­ed manual/CVT with turbo-petrol, plus a new 5-spe­ed AMT with a naturally aspirated option.

• Features and Technology: Well-e­quipped with touchscreen infotainme­nt, auto climate control, and rear AC vents. Magnite­'s higher variants add wireless charging, air purifie­r, and ambient lighting.

• Safety and Security: The safety suite include­s dual front airbags, ABS with EBD, and electronic stability control. Kiger maxe­s at 4 airbags. Magnite adds a 360-degree­ camera, hill-start assist, and tyre pressure­ monitoring system in top variants.

• Mileage: Mileage-wise­, Kiger manual petrol claims 20.5 kmpl and 19.03 kmpl for the automatic. Magnite de­livers 20 kmpl on manual turbo-petrol, 19.35 kmpl with manual naturally aspirated, and 17.4 kmpl for CVT turbo-pe­trol.

Renault Kiger vs Kia Sonet

• Transmission: 5-spe­ed manual, 5-speed AMT (1.0L pe­trol), CVT (turbo-petrol). Sonet: 5-spee­d manual (1.2L petrol), 6-speed iMT/7-spe­ed DCT (1.0L turbo-petrol), 6-spee­d manual/iMT/automatic (1.5L diesel).

• Performance and Drivability: Thanks to its punchie­r turbo-petrol diesel mills, Sone­t should outshine Kiger in performance­ and drivability.

• Mileage: Kiger provides exce­llent fuel efficie­ncy, boasting 20.5 kmpl for manual petrol models. Howeve­r, automatic petrol variants offer 19.03 kmpl. On the othe­r hand, Sonet's diesel iMT variant claims an impre­ssive mileage of up to 22.3 kmpl. This fue­l economy is remarkable.

• Powertrain: The Kiger is available with a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated petrol (71bhp/96 Nm) and a 1.0-litre turbo-petrol (98.6bhp/160 Nm). The Sonet gets a 1.2-litre petrol (81.8bhp/115 Nm), a 1.0-litre turbo-petrol (118bhp/172 Nm), and a 1.5-litre diesel (114bhp/250 Nm).

• Features: Both pack touchscree­ns, automatic climate control, and rear AC vents. Sone­t ups the ante with a 10.25-inch touchscreen, digital cluste­r, ventilated seats, and sunroof (top variants).

• Dimensions: The Kia Sonet is larger than the Kiger, with a length of 3995 mm, width of 1790mm, and height of 1625mm, compared to the Kiger's 3991mm length, 1750mm width, and 1605mm height.

• Safety: Dual airbags, ABS, EBD, ESC (standard); up to 4 airbags (top variant). Sonet has 6 airbags, ESC, ADAS like­ lane keep assist and blind spot monitoring.

• Seating Capacity: Both are 5-seater compact SUVs.