Renault looking to build on record year

French carmaker Renault yesterday reported a 3.3% rise in global sales for 2015, saying new models helped it to grab a bigger share of rebounding European demand and hold its own in troubled emerging markets.

Deliveries increased to 2.8m cars and vans last year— a record for the group—- at a rate that was more than double the global market’s 1.6% advance.

Renault pledged to increase sales across the board in 2016 as the global market expands by a forecast 1%-2%, with European and French demand growth at the upper end of the range.