2025 Renault Captur heading to Aus

Less than a day after Mitsubishi announced the European ASX would be coming to Australia, Renault has doubled down and revealed that model’s donor vehicle, the facelifted Captur, is also headed Down Under.

Set to arrive in Aussie showrooms in the second half of the year, the 2025 Renault Captur will almost certainly be offered with some form of electrification, potentially even a plug-in hybrid now the Federal Government’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard is in place.

Local pricing and specification details will be announced closer to the new model’s release, however the previous version – offered here as a 1.3-litre turbo-petrol – started from $35,000 plus on-road costs.

Odds are the new one will cost more than that owing to its enhanced technology, extra safety equipment and likely electrification tech.

In Europe the 1.3-litre turbo powertrain gets 48-volt mild-hybrid assistance and produces a slightly healthier 118kW compared to our versions’ 113kW.

There’s also a tiny 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo (66kW or 74kW) and a 107kW E-Tech hybrid version that combines a 1.6-litre petrol, two electric motors, a 1.2kWh battery and an unusual multi-mode ‘dog-clutch’ automatic transmission.

“The Renault Captur has historically been one of the most popular models in our Australian lineup and dealers have been receiving constant enquiries from buyers asking when the new model is due here, after we sold out of the previous model late last year,” Renault Australia general manager Glen Sealey said.

“The MY25 Renault Captur is just one of a number of new and updated Renault models around the corner for Renault Australia and we will have more to share on those soon.”

We expect the new Captur and second-gen ASX to arrive within a cooee of each other seeing as they’re sourced from the same production plant in Spain, with the latter being a rebadged clone of the former.

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