We don’t
normally do more modern cars on here usually because most manufacturers know
what they’re doing and make cars deliberately to attractive to the masses which
usually means slightly dull!!!! The same was true of Renaults line up of Megans
and Lagunas 15 years ago. It then decided to break its self-inflicted mould and
create a brand new executive hatch back to replace its already discontinued
executive car the Safrane. To be fair a few manufacturer’s where at it
including Vauxhall with the Signum. In both counts the public wasn’t really
ready for the concept, unlike today with the masses of fastback Audi’s and
BMW’s.
Unlike the
Signum the Vel Sartis was a revelation in the styling department probably
indicating the new corporate face for Renault going forward into the new
century. Unfortunately the public didn’t buy into this concept and from 2002-09
only 62,000 were built. That sounds like a big number but when you compared it
to the right-hand drive versions produced for the UK market, the one below
spotted at the recent St Asaph Car Show car park is a rare beast, only 1200 or
so were sold in this configuration over a number of specification levels.
Demand was that low that the right-hand drive version was phased out in 2005
when the model had a face lift.
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