Renault Kangoo

Among the 498 Renault entries in the MotorJury library, the Renault Kangoo holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1997. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Renault Kangoo properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Toyota Toyota Prius, the Subaru Subaru Forester, the Audi AG Audi TT — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Renault Kangoo reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.2 L Renault Energy engine#ExF / E5F Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.2 L Renault D-Type engine#D4F / D4F I4 / 1.4 L Renault Energy engine#ExJ / E7J (Energy; kerb weight is recorded at successor = Nissan NV200 (for Nissan Kubistar) / Renault Kangoo II (Argentina); drive goes through 5-speed Manual / 4-speed Automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive / Front-engine, four-wheel drive (2001–present). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Renault story

Within Renault's own catalogue the Renault Kangoo sits alongside the Renault 10, the Renault 10CV, the Renault 11CV, the Renault 12. The record names the Renault Express as its predecessor and the Nissan NV200 (for Nissan Kubistar) / Renault Kangoo II (Argentina) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to body_style = 4/5-door minivan / 5-door LAV. Assembly is recorded at France: Maubeuge (Maubeuge Construction Automobile / MCA) / Argentina: Santa Isabel, Córdoba / Santa Isabel (Renault Argentina – 1998–2018) / Morocco: Casablanca (Somaca) / Malaysi.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Renault Kangoo was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.