Carmaker Renault plans to increase production of its Dacia Duster sports-utility vehicle after getting 75,000 orders in five months, Le Figaro reported, quoted by newswire Bloomberg, citing Gerard Detourbet, head of Renault’s low-cost program.  The company will raise output to 180,000 vehicles a year at the start of 2011, from 150,000, according to the French newspaper.

The head of Renault Romania, Jerome Olive, said in September that the local Duster production could reach and even exceed the pace of production for the Sandero model, which was of 650 units a day.

Renault launched Duster in April this year and reached 30,000 unit sales worldwide by the end of August.

Romania-insider.com (Bloomberg, Le Figaro, Mediafax)