The Petrolhead Lounge

j_w_pepper

Except for a few "icons", like the R 4, R 5, and Twingo, Renault never had much of an identity. They failed to follow a design concept, mostly with their larger models. Look at what has been called the Mégane over the years, there is no continuity that yells "Renault" anywhere. Granted, at the opposite end is Audi where every generation of every model looks so similar as to make it next to impossible to know if it's a recent A 3 or an old A 6 when, invariably, they flash their headlights at you in the fast lane. That may be a desired family similarity, but it's also kind of boring.

MajorDSmythe

The Safrane was a nice looking car, at least I think it was. You don't seer many of them around these days. I can't remember the last time I saw one.



That C pillar vaguely reminds me of the mk III Granada.

GoldenGun

j_w_pepper wrote: »

Except for a few "icons", like the R 4, R 5, and Twingo, Renault never had much of an identity. They failed to follow a design concept, mostly with their larger models. Look at what has been called the Mégane over the years, there is no continuity that yells "Renault" anywhere. Granted, at the opposite end is Audi where every generation of every model looks so similar as to make it next to impossible to know if it's a recent A 3 or an old A 6 when, invariably, they flash their headlights at you in the fast lane. That may be a desired family similarity, but it's also kind of boring.

Fair enough, I'm not the biggest Renault fanboy out there anyway. Though some older models and a few new ones look pretty good imo. The newer ones that look good seem to be modelled on the older ones that I like, or at least that is my impression, hence my comment. I might be wrong though, I can live with that when it comes to Renault :p

Spot on about Audi's btw, it appears they also come without indicators.