Eye of the Kiger

There’s a new entrant in the already populated sub-4m SUV space in the form of the Renault Kiger which promises premium features, a whole lot of space, a turbocharged petrol engine and more at a price that’s considerably lower than most of its rivals

- Dhruv Saxena

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know that compact SUVs, the sub-4m kind are all the rage right now. Buyers can’t seem to get enough of them and almost every mainstream manufacturer wants a slice of that very lucrative pie. The Renault-Nissan Alliance too jumped on the bandwagon with the Nissan Magnite towards the end of last year and now the Renault Kiger. Both share the same platform and mechanicals but that’s where the similarities end. More importantly, though, both have arrived with a price tag that’s considerably lower than others in the segment without, prima facie, compromising on space, performance and features. And that raises the question – have we been paying too much for sub-4m compact SUVs so far?