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Renaults Boosts Output at French Plant, Shifting Production from Slovenia

French car maker Renault SA is temporarily increasing production of one model of its Clio subcompact car at a factory near Paris to keep up with a sudden surge of demand brought on by auto-scrapping incentives across Europe.

Most of the Clio Campus cars are currently made in Renault's Slovenian plant, which also makes Renault's Twingo city car. Despite the global slump in the auto sector, sales of the Twingo and Clio have boomed lately because of programs in France, Germany and other countries that give buyers of new, low-emission...