The Renault Group has just inaugurated the LatAm Design Centre in São José dos Pinhais, Brazil. Located near the group’s three factories, the new style centre will provide a modern tool for designing vehicles for the Latin American markets. It will also allow local designers to participate in Renault’s global creative projects, along with the other four Renault Group design centres around the world. ‘The Renault Design Centre LatAm will allow us to extend our capacity to develop new models for the region, but also to contribute more to global projects,’ said Luiz Fernando Pedrucci, SVP Renault LatAm.
The Renault Group has had a design studio in São Paulo since 2006. The LatAm Design Centre has a surface area of 1,220 m² on which the entire product can be developed: from the genesis to the creative and conceptual phase, through to industrial design and suitability for series production. The Brazilian designers contributed to the development of the Renault Kardian, a B-segment crossover that will go on sale in 2024, and worked on the Renault Niagara Concept, which foreshadows future production models to be launched outside Europe by 2027.
