Renault Kwid

Among the 498 Renault entries in the MotorJury library, the Renault Kwid 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 2015. 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 Kwid properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Ford Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro, the Ferrari Ferrari 488 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Renault Kwid reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 799 cc NMKV BR engine / BR08DE Straight-three engine / I3 / 999 cc NMKV BR engine / BR10DE I3; quoted output is 54 hp (0.8) / 67 hp (1.0); kerb weight is recorded at 775 kg; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Dacia Easy-R / Easy-R Automated manual transmission / automated manual; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 70 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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 Kwid sits alongside the Renault 10, the Renault 10CV, the Renault 11CV, the Renault 12. Design is credited to Serge Cosenza. Assembly is recorded at India: Chennai (Renault Nissan Automotive India / Renault Nissan India) / Brazil: São José dos Pinhais (Renault do Brasil / Renault Brazil) / Colombia: Envigado (Sofasa, 2025–prese.

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 Kwid was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.