What you are looking at is a Renault. Take as long as you need to digest that fact because this wild concept covers a lot of ground in terms of what the French carmaker intends to deliver over the next few years.
Concepts often focus on showcasing one particular area – be it design, technology, ideology – but this two-seater all-electric grand tourer signposts the direction of Renault’s future products, their styling and new technological.
Oh, and it’s called Trezor, which treads dangerously close to sounding like Trevor. Fans of noisy industrial metal may also interpret the name as an homage to Nine Inch Nails’ misery guts frontman Trent Reznor. But it isn’t. We think.
Renault’s most recent output (Megane, Kadjar, Clio) has been relatively safe and tailored to the mainstream in a bid to shift as many units as possible to keep up with its Peugeot and Citroen rivals. However, this concept expresses the French marque’s more adventurous side.
Standing at just under 1.1m tall, Trezor is striking without being aggressive with warm and simple lines running its 4.7m length to form a GT-like silhouette. The carbon bodywork is interspersed with a C-shaped lighting signature, red glazing, and hexagonal panels at the rear that push home the Trezor’s high-performance promise.
‘Where are the doors’, you ask? Where Renault is going, we don’t need doors. Instead, Trezor’s ‘clamshell’-like design lifts the upper half of the car’s exterior to reveal an equally striking ruby red interior. This means the driver and passenger have to straddle the side of the car to enter the leather and red wood-lined cabin.
So how quick is it? Well, we mentioned that the Trezor was electric and most new battery-powered cars tend to go like lightning and this is no different. With a power output of 260kW – the equivalent of 345bhp – it can dart to 62mph in under four seconds. Renault claims that when the Trezor is in autonomous driving mode, it’ll drive itself when up to cruising speeds.
When will you see the Trezor in your local Renault showroom? As the Trezor is a concept, you’ll never see it in its entirety in showrooms but that doesn’t mean elements of the car won’t feature in future Renault models. We reckon this means the new Clio and Megane models should be a lot more exciting prospects as a result.
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