SLEIGHT OF HAND

The Renaut Kiger and the Renault Triber use modern engineering to be very different but still the same

- TUHIN GUHA

For the uninitiated, it’d be hard to fathom just looking at these two cars that both the Kiger and the Triber are made together. Not just in the same factory but on the same production line, along with the Magnite, the Kwid and the redi-GO. And they serve as a perfect example of the miracles of modern-day automotive manufacturing, with their starkly different appearances and target audiences.

A far cry from the sometimes questionable badge-engineering that we have been subjected to in the past, the Kiger and Triber can differentiate themselves by way of the structure they are built around. The Common Module Family (CMF)-A+ architecture, itself a scaled-up derivative of CMF-A, RenaultNissan’s take on modular automobile production. It’s a process that is now the norm across the auto industry, every car maker you can think of uses this is some form. Volkswagen MQB and Toyota’s TNGA are two that come easily to mind.