Renault Avantime - one of the worst selling cars of all time!

Renault Avantime 1999, whilst a lot of businesses are worrying about the impact of the much-hyped and quickly forgotten millennium bug, Renault has a much bigger going concern: the Renault Avantime which was launched at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show after being shown as a concept earlier in the year at a press launch. The car came to market in the autumn of September 2001 and came to the UK in early 2002. If you’re wondering why it took so long after the 99 motor show, it’s due to a bit of time spent making that pillar less roof meet safety standards. Although the car had a special target audience, which we’ll talk about later on, the car was largely the result of an outstanding obligation. Renault had decided to move the production of the Espace away from Matra’s team and factory - not through bad blood - simply because the car was to be made from sheet steel instead of ferrous and composite mix which had been Matra’s specialism. The idea behind the car was two fold, keep that ob
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