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By Jonathan Crouch

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The Symbioz Hybrid offers yet another Renault option for customers in search of a C-segment crossover. It's a more spacious, versatile and trendy take on a Captur. Which for the right kind of customer might make it very appealing indeed.

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You can never have too much of a good thing - or so Renault thinks when it comes to C-segment SUVs. If you want something a little larger than the brand's supermini-based B-segment Captur crossover, the company already offers the Arkana and then the fractionally larger Austral and Rafale models. Or, if you want an EV, the Scenic E-Tech Electric. Nevertheless, here's yet another alternative from the brand to consider, the Symbioz. Renault course thinks the Symbioz model's place in the range is quite distinct. The company needs to offer a direct alternative to the lower mid-sized crossover C-segment sales leader, Nissan's Qashqai. The Austral is a little too large and expensive to fully fill that role, the Arkana and the Rafale are Coupe-SUVs and the Scenic is electric and therefore too pricey. Renault loyalists might expect the Symbioz to be electric too, since this was a name first used back in 2017 for one of the brand's full-EV concept models. But that was a much bigger, more ambitious kind of design. This Symbioz (its name borrowed from the French word 'symboise' meaning 'living together') is basically just a super-sized version of the Captur. But that could be exactly what many young families want.