The cockpit is an overtly Nineteen Seventies-flavoured affair, trimmed in brown and beige and with all of the screens housed in retro lozenge-shaped housings atop a minimalist dashboard.
The R17 Electrical Restomod x Ora Ito, to make use of its full identify, will make its public debut on Renault’s stand on the Paris motor present subsequent month, the place the agency can be anticipated to disclose the manufacturing model of the 4 electrical crossover.
Renault hasn’t alluded to any plans for a manufacturing model, however a succession of equally conceived, retro-futuristic Renault ideas revealed over the past three years have all been primarily based on previous fashions that at the moment are being introduced again as EVs: the 4, 5 and Twingo.
Not like with these urban-oriented, economy-focused runarounds, although, the enterprise case for a revival of a two-door coupé would appear much less apparent.
Renault hasn’t bought a coupé because the unpopular two-door Laguna was retired in 2015, across the similar that the likes of the Volkswagen Scirocco, Vauxhall Astra GTC and Hyundai Veloster all bowed out, the marketplace for hatchback-based coupés having evaporated.
Nonetheless, inexperienced shoots of a renaissance have appeared in latest instances, with Honda bringing again the Prelude as a Civic-based hybrid coupé and Toyota hinting at plans for a equally conceived Celica revival.