IN THE AFTERMATH of Carlos Ghosn’s arrest in late 2018, the dizzying unravelling of the empire he’d created made you question the long-term future of Renault. So complete was his control over the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and so shocking was his downfall that it was hard to see how anyone could repair the damage done to Renault, which by now was firmly ambling along to obscurity in the mid-market.