Renault seeks to create on style success with Trezor

Renault launched the primary step during a contemporary style direction with the Trezor conception for a Grand Tourer-style electrical car.

Renault's current styling -- introduced in 2010 on the DeZir conception -- has been a significant consider winning new customers, the corporate aforementioned. within the half, Renault complete passed Ford to become Europe's No. 2--selling brand name when Volkswagen.



The Trezor conception can influence the styling of consequent Muse, due in 2018, even as the present Muse, launched in 2012, introduced style cues from the DeZir.

Renault's next styles can emphasize property, autonomous driving and well-being within the automobile because the vehicle takes over additional driving functions, style chief Henry Laurens van den Acker aforementioned.

"The rules have modified," van den Acker told Automotive News Europe at the motorcar show here. "We have to be compelled to add additional autonomy, screens, info, technology, sophistication and refinement into our vehicles. it's a giant challenge, however it's additionally a luxury we've got."

The design changes to Renault's lineup won't be as radical as seen throughout this current cycle.

Renault won't "reinvent the wheel once more," van den Acker aforementioned. "With the last generation, we wanted to form a replacement style chapter in Renault's story," he said. "This time, we'll depend on the inspiration that we have a tendency to created six years agone. The revolution has already been created and it appears to be going well."

Despite the flashy and premium-like styling of the Trezor conception, van den Acker aforementioned Renault won't depart from its Renaissance man roots as a manufacturing business. "We aren't coming up with cars for the elitists and therefore the happy few -- our job is to form life higher for everyone," van den Acker aforementioned.

The Trezor's 350-hp electrical drivetrain will accelerate the automobile from zero to a hundred km/h (0 to sixty two mph) in but four seconds. Its batteries ar situated on an individual basis, one at the front and therefore the different at the rear, giving the rear-wheel-drive Trezor best weight distribution, Renault aforementioned, which reinforces driving pleasure. Download the file...