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Groupe Renault is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans and in the past, has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches, aircraft and aircraft engines, and autorail vehicles. Headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, the Renault group is made up of the namesake Renault marque along with subsidiaries Alpine and Dacia from Romania. It is part of a loose alliance Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance since 1999. The French state and Nissan each own a 15% share of the company. Renault also has other subsidiaries as RCI Banque, Renault Retail Group and Motrio. Renault has various joint ventures, including Horse Powertrain, Oyak-Renault, Renault Nissan Automotive India and Renault Korea. Renault Trucks, previously known as Renault Véhicules Industriels, has been part of Volvo since 2001. Renault Agriculture became 100% owned by German agricultural equipment manufacturer CLAAS in 2008. Renault is known for its role in motor sport, particularly rallying, Formula 1 and Formula E. Its early work on mathematical curve modeling for car bodies is important in the history of computer graphics.