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Duster has a manual transmission option for the Brazilian market

Renault do Brasil is now offering a new Duster option for its customers, the Intense with a 5-speed manual transmission. It arrives with more standard equipment, maintaining all the characteristics of robustness, connectivity, versatility with the largest trunk in the category, serving the consumer looking for an SUV option with manual transmission.

Compared to the discontinued Zen version, the manual Duster Intense 1.6 features 16-inch alloy wheels, fog lights, speed limiter and cruise control, rear view camera with dynamic guides, rear parking sensors and multimedia Display Link of 8.0 inch with six speakers and wireless connectivity with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems.

The engine of this version is the 1.6 SCe with maximum power of 120 hp and torque of 159 Nm. The engine features dual variable valve timing in the intake, injectors positioned in the head that ensure high efficiency and good performance from low rpm.

With the change, the Duster range is now made up of the following models:

-Duster Intense 1.6 manual: 109,390 reais

-Duster Intense 1.6 CVT: 118,590 reais

-Duster Iconic 1.6 CVT: 126,790 reais

-Duster Iconic turbo 1.3 TCe CVT: 141,290 reais

About the Renault Duster...In 2020, the Duster underwent its most profound change, with its new generation, to continue a success story. On the outside, the SUV brought a completely new design, with more muscular lines, which convey grandeur and robustness, with a more aerodynamic design, thanks to the reduction of the windshield angle and increase in its waistline. The interior, in turn, underwent a real revolution, with more perceived quality and better ergonomics.

This year, the Duster received a great novelty: the expansion of the range of versions with the adoption of the new 1.3 flex TCe (Turbo Control Efficiency) turbo engine, combined with the efficient CVT XTRONIC 8-speed automatic transmission in the Iconic version. With this, the brand's best-selling SUV in the country becomes even more dynamic and agile, thanks to the new power of 170 hp and the highest torque in the segment of 270 Nm.

Even with all the changes, the SUV maintained its key characteristics, with robustness, versatility and internal space, with the largest trunk in the category with 475 liters of capacity.

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