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Renault cars are not equipped with software that manipulates the results of harmful emissions, announced the company late on Friday night.

The statement was made in relation to media information that French authorities have launched a probe of the company on suspicions that the carmaker might have attempted to hide emissions of diesel engines above permissible levels.

French authorities will launch an investigation of carmaker Renault on suspicions of fraud during tests for harmful gas emissions of diesel engines, announced France's Prosecutor's Office, reported BGNES.

Overall auto sales market, including light trucks, hit a new record with nearly one million in sales in 2016, according to a latest release by the Automotive Distributors Association (ODD) on Jan. 6, as reported by state-run Anadolu Agency. 

Visiting the company as part of the government tour of SE Slovenia, Cerar praised its advanced technology and said Revoz was one of the biggest positive factors in the Slovenian economy.

This is why the government, given that certain conditions are met, remains prepared to continue to stimulate its activities, he said.

Turkey is making good progress on plans to produce a new domestic car model, Industry Minister Faruk Özlü said on Sept. 23, adding that the government was targeting annual output of 1.5 million vehicles for the entire sector this year.

Oyak Renault, the Turkish enterprise of French car maker Renault, has announced that it will produce its new Megane Sedan model in Turkey. 

The company will invest 200 million euros in the production, Oyak Renault General Manager Tunç Başeğmez said at a Sept. 7 event in Bursa, the heart of car-manufacturing in Turkey. 

Renault executive Nicolas Maure, who heads Romanian carmaker Dacia, will take over as CEO of struggling Russian automobile giant Avtovaz next month, the owners said in a statement March 15.     

Around 8,000 people, most of them union members at the Dacia car factory in Pitesti, took to the streets of the southern town on Monday to protest about the Romanian government's failure to start work on a new highway in the south. 

The project has been discussed for years, but the government postponed it several times due to disagreements over the best route. 

Russia's biggest carmaker Avtovaz, majority owned by Renault-Nissan, said on March 7 its chief executive Bo Andersson is to step down.

Hit hard by Russia's economic crisis, the company, which makes Lada cars, has been battling with bankruptcy fears since last month reporting a tripling of net losses for 2015.

Production at French car giant Renault's factory in the Marmara province of Bursa returned to normal on March 2, a day after workers went on strike after their colleagues were laid off, a company official has told Reuters.

"Production returned to normal as of 8 a.m.," the official said.