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The Renault Captur's new ad is ethically wrong & deceiving! Blatantly fooling the Indian customer Mod Note: Our Captur Report has been taken live at this link (Renault Captur : Official Review). Please continue the discussion over on the new thread. Thanks!



Why did Renault rebrand the Duster-based Kaptur to Captur to mimic their Clio-based European car?



To mislead people into believing this -





They call it an international success! (EDIT on 4th October: Renault has taken the video down after this thread went up. You can view the deceitful video ad at this link or this link).



https://youtu.be/xwzbheIgq-w



However, as BHPians are aware - the car we are getting in the Indian market is entirely different & has been developed recently for the Russian market, and then targeted for developing markets like Brazil and India. It is based on the Dacia B0 platform - same as the Duster and is even different in dimensions as compared to the European car. The similarity mostly ends with the looks and the name, whereas both of these are different vehicles underneath.



The European car is smaller, but a more premium package, built on the Clio platform. More than anything - it comes with a host of safety features that earned it a



To confuse matters more, the 'Kaptur' was renamed to 'Captur' for the Indian market causing much confusion even among learned enthusiasts about the origins of the vehicle. Some related posts



Renault however - has gone to questionable levels now IMHO - by calling the car an international success - clearly using the fame of the European car to sell it's lookalike counterpart in the Indian market. They have highlighted the recognition received in countries like the UK, where it's clearly a different car and a different platform that is being sold - with only the same name.



To take an example - It's like Apple deciding that the iPhone X is too costly for India, so they decide to make the iPhone 7 look like the X. But then, they price it as a premium product and advertise it as an iPhone X itself, showing the glowing reviews it has got internationally. Why did Renault rebrand the Duster-based Kaptur to Captur to mimic their Clio-based European car?To mislead people into believing this -They call it an international success! ().The European car is smaller, but a more premium package, built on the Clio platform. More than anything - it comes with a host of safety features that earned it a 5 star safety rating . The car was deemed expensive for emerging markets like ours and hence the Duster's basic underpinnings were used to develop a look-alike for such markets. The Duster has already received slack for its compromised safety, including the usage of small airbags for the Indian market.To confuse matters more, the 'Kaptur' was renamed to 'Captur' for the Indian market causing much confusion even among learned enthusiasts about the origins of the vehicle. Some related posts here They have highlighted the recognition received in countries like the UK, where it's clearly a different car and a different platform that is being sold - with only the same name.To take an example - It's like Apple deciding that the iPhone X is too costly for India, so they decide to make the iPhone 7 look like the X. But then, they price it as a premium product and advertise it as an iPhone X itself, showing the glowing reviews it has got internationally. Last edited by GTO : 12th March 2018 at 10:07 . Reason: Linking to review + closing thread