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Well maintained Renault Avantime. Good investment for the future as existing classic car already. Car is in original condition. This example is a very rare 16V Turbo two litre with 6-speed manual transmission (only 1000 Avantime were built as 2.0 Turbo models). Striking in very beautiful Noir Nocturne with silver aluminium roof rails contrasted with beige upholstery. The history file contains many Renault main dealer receipts and details two cambelt changes. This well very well presented example performs its duties in style and comfort with plenty of power. Matching new Michelin tyres all round on original Cyteres 16 alloys. Sophisticated and flamboyant, audacious yet practical, the Avantime is a fascinating concept car which made it into very limited production. This elegant example will deliver fun and stylish motoring for many years to come and a shrewd investment with values only set to rise.
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Collectors item
Car: Renault Avantime 2.0 16V Turbo
Year: 10/2002
Mileage: 162.000 KM
Transmission: 6-speed manual
Condition: Good
Exterior: Noir Nocturne
Interior: Beige Sable
Location: The Netherlands, Maastricht Area
Price: POA

Link
www.autoweek.nl/autoreview/30973/renault-avantime-20-16v-…

Specs
Production number = T000245
Production number date = 2 July 2002
TE268 = Colour Noir Nocturne e (a dark violet/perleffect-paint)
DRAP08 = upholstery sellerie drap beige hoggar
HARM02 = interior beige sable
Option = panoramic sunroof
Quantity produced = 4

Heritage
Patrick Le Quement’s CoupeSpace (crossover MPV-Coupe-Cabrio GT-concept) was revealed at the Geneva Motorshow in 1999. The reaction from the motoring press was unanimously positive prompting Renault to take the very bold step of launching their ‘Avantime’ (meaning ahead-of-time) into production largely unchanged. This radical flagship not only had handsome good looks but also an abundance of luxuries, safety features and advanced engineering. Highlights included unique double-hinged ‘kinematic’ pillarless doors allowing easy access to the front and rear seats (even when tightly parked), the world’s largest opening glass sunroof at the time featuring strengthened heat-reflecting tinted glass, theatre seating (rear higher than the front), galvanised steel chassis with aluminium upper structure, cavernous 530 litre boot, xenon headlights, and a ‘grand air’ mode which retracts the 1m² glass sunroof at the same time as the pillarless side windows, all at the press of one switch.

‘Sub Zero’ status on Top Gear’s ‘Cool Wall’ earned the Avantime some notoriety, especially with the presenters claiming that Renaults Avantime was cooler even than the Aston Martin Vanquish and "the coolest car money can buy" yet just 229 cars ultimately sold in the Netherlands. Only 8,557 Renaults Avantime were built by Matra between 11-2001 and 03-2003 (18 months). Avantime is also the last Matra ever built. Apart from Ferrari cars, Matra (the MS80) is the only non-British built car to win the Formula One World Constructors’ Championship (Jackie Stewart, 1969).

Renault has enlisted the services of French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier to front its first-ever cross-brand advertising campaign "Créateur d’automobiles" (a one-minute spot of a Noir Nocturne Renault Avantime with music by Etienne de Crécy).
The pan-European Jean-Paul Gaultier ad aims to position the French motor brand as being creative and innovative, paving the way for forthcoming launches such as the new AVANTIME GT Coupe in 2001. TV advertising, by incumbent agency Publicis, breaks on October 17 (2000) and shows Gaultier designing and producing a new dress, from sketches to the finished product on the catwalk. After the fashion show, the model sees a Renault AVANTIME and is captivated by it. The ad then shows the process by which the car was created, in reverse from the completed car back to the production line. The designer’s sketch is reduced to a blank piece of paper, mirroring Gaultier’s process.

Link Renault AVANTIME NOIR NOCTURNE spot commercial 2001: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FS3V-akz-c