New Renault Kangoo who lives in Australia

The first new Renault Kangoo van in an exceedingly decade is about to launch in Australia in 2022, with the selection of combustion (petrol and/or diesel) and wattage.

Renault Australia can launch its initial all-new Renault Kangoo van in additional than a decade in 2022, with the selection of combustion-engined or wattage.

Revealed in late 2020, the new, third-generation Kangoo replaces the second-generation model on sale regionally since 2010 – that sits on underpinnings geological dating back to 2002 – delivery with it a replacement look, overhauled interior, additional economical engines, and a variety of active safety options unaccustomed Renault's little van plate.

While actual launch dates square measure nevertheless to be confirmed by Renault's native bourgeois Ateco, Drive understands the new 2022 Renault Kangoo can arrive in Australia initial in combustion-engined colour within the third quarter of 2022 (July to September), with the zero-emissions E-Tech electrical variant tipped to follow within the fourth quarter (October to December).

The budget-minded Renault categorical van offered in Europe – a rebranded, gently restyled and fewer well-equipped version of the Kangoo – will not create the journey to Australia, nor square measure traveler versions of the Kangoo expected to be offered regionally.

In the in the meantime, here's everything you wish to grasp concerning the new 2022 Renault Kangoo.

2022 Renault Kangoo style, interior and load

On the skin, the new Kangoo attracts shut links to Renault's latest traveler cars and SUVs – finally, it rides on an equivalent CMF-B platform because the new Captur town SUV – with flagship versions in Europe providing semiconductor diode headlights, 16-inch (albeit steel) wheels and 7 out there colors.

Inside, an 8.0-inch touchscreen offers Apple CarPlay, golem automobile and satellite navigation, connexion a wheel borrowed from the Captur, 3 USB ports, a 15-watt wireless smartphone charger, dual-zone automatic climate management, and push-button begin on flagship grades.

Practicality highlights within embrace up to sixty litres of cabin storage (including a drawer underneath the traveler seat), body part seat adjustment, a driver's door which will open ninety degrees and, within the three-seat version, a centre seat which will fold to become a table, with associate A4 document clip and cup holder.

Behind the occupants, standard-wheelbase Kangoo variants supply between three.3 and 3.9 cubical metres of house, increasing to between four.2 and 4.9 cubical metres in long-wheelbase colour – the latter distance sanctioning a class-leading 3548mm load length, associated an 864mm "extra wide" side entrance.

Two-seat, standard-wheelbase models supply a replacement 'Open Sesame' feature, that sees the traveler facet B-pillar removed for a class-leading 1446mm load gap, assisted  by a swivelling traveler seat. However, this technique is ostensibly solely out there on left-hand-drive models.

Range-topping 2022 Renault Kangoo variants supply a variety of active safety options not offered with its precursor, as well as adaptational control (with stop and get in automatic models), lane-keep assist, lane departure warning, front, facet and rear parking sensors, semi-automatic parking, autonomous emergency braking, blind-spot observance and a digital rear-view mirror.

2022 Renault Kangoo engines – as well as electrical

Combustion-engined versions of the new Kangoo are going to be offered in Australia, tho' it's nevertheless to be confirmed whether or not gasoline or diesel power are going to be out there regionally – or each, as per the outgoing Kangoo and its key rivals, the Volkswagen Caddy and Peugeot Partner.

Petrol patrons in Europe square measure offered a one.3-litre turbocharged four-cylinder in 75kW/200Nm and 96kW/240Nm states of tune, whereas the internal-combustion engine on supply could be a one.5-litre turbo four-cylinder, offered in 55kW/230Nm, 70kW/260Nm and 85kW/270Nm forms.

A six-speed manual is customary altogether models, with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic out there as associate possibility within the high-output gasoline, and 70kW and 85kW diesels. All engines square measure compliant with the newest European emissions rules, with combined fuel economy claims as low as five.2L/100km with the diesel, or 6.4L/100km with the gasoline.

Payloads vary between 600kg and 1000kg, reckoning on variant and distance, with up to 1500kg of towing capability on supply.

For comparison, today's Kangoo is on the market with a 84kW/190Nm one.2-litre turbo-petrol engine in base Compact type – with a six-speed manual or six-speed dual-clutch automatic – with the maxi choosing associate 81kW/240Nm one.5-litre turbo-diesel engine and six-speed dual-clutch automobile. This line-up suggests the Australian model vary for 2022 can skew towards less attackable variants, tho' this is often nevertheless to be confirmed.

Also certain for Australia is that the new Kangoo E-Tech electrical, that pairs a 90kW/245Nm motor with a 45kWh battery pack for 300km of WLTP-rated practice range, assisted  by regenerative braking – a big upgrade over this Kangoo ZE's 44kW/226Nm motor, 33kWh battery and 230km WLTP vary claim.

The new Kangoo E-Tech electrical adds DC quick charging for the primary time, with associate 80kW socket capable of adding up to 170km of place half-hour.

An 11kW home or work wallbox can complete a fifteen to one hundred per cent charge in 3 hours and fifty minutes – tho' 22kW AC charge capability is additionally out there – therewith time increasing to "less than six hours" on a seven.4kW AC socket.

The 2022 Renault Kangoo and 2023 Renault Kangoo E-Tech electrical square measure slated to travel on sale in Australia within the third and fourth quarters of 2022, severally.

Prices are going to be proclaimed nearer to launch, tho' given the extra technology on supply, it's honest to expect increase over this model, priced from $26,290 and on-road prices in base Compact gasoline colour ($28,790 with associate auto), $32,490 in maxi diesel trim, and $50,290 for the electrical ZE.

Alex Misoyannis has been writing concerning cars since 2017, once he started his own web site, Redline. He contributed for Drive in 2018, before connexion CarAdvice in 2019, changing into a daily contributory journalist at intervals the news team in 2020. Cars have contend a central role throughout Alex’s life, from flicking through automobile magazines as a young age, to growing up around performance vehicles in an exceedingly car-loving family.