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Renault Avantime: Clearly Before Its Time

The Matra-Renault partnership revolutionized the automotive world in 1984 with the launch of the Espace. They had equally ambitious aims for Avantime, an avant-garde vehicle inspired by the famous MPV.

From concept to reality

In the early 1990s, Philippe Guédon, head of the automotive division at Matra, noted a change in the customer base of the Espace MPV. He believed that the children of Espace owners remained loyal to the car even after they had grown up and left home.


Renault Avantime concept (1999)

As a result, the renowned MPV . . .

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