RENAULT AVANTIME (2002 - 2003)雷诺avantime(2002至2003年)
Industry watchers will long remember the Avantime as the moment Renault, buoyed by a swelling wave of innovation, innovated perhaps a little too far.业界观察家将长期作为时刻牢记avantime雷诺、肿胀感鼓舞了一波创新创新也许有点过分. The idea of merging a Renault Espace chassis with an angular three-door coupe-style body came from way out of left field and left many potential buyers scratching their heads.雷诺概念合并协商底盘带角三个门采伐式身体来自出路离开现场,留下许多潜在的买主跌破头. As a used buy it?s an intriguing proposition.作为用来买?有趣的命题. Rarity is more or less guaranteed and it may well hold its value reasonably well due to curiosity value but there aren?t too many about.稀罕或多或少地保证,可能有其价值,但由于相当好奇,但均无价值?笔太多了. Renault aimed to sell 1,500 Avantimes per year in the UK.雷诺为了卖1500avantimes每年在英国. Divide that by ten and you?d be nearer the mark.到了10分,你呢?四是临近大关.
HISTORY历史
When Renault unveiled the Avantime at the 2000 Geneva Motor Show, few thought it anything but a typical show car.当avantime揭幕雷诺汽车在2000年的日内瓦展览,很少想到什么,而是一个典型的汽车展. Flashy, impractical but guaranteed to generate a few headlines; it was novel but would never make production.耍花招,但保证产生不切实际几头条;但它不会使生产新颖. Further inquiries revealed that a deal had already been struck with Lagardere, owners of Matra, to assemble the cars.进一步调查显示,有一笔交易已经取得法国,拥有马特拉、装配汽车. The Avantime was getting the green light.avantime获得了绿灯.
Green, however, soon turned out to be amber.绿色,但很快原来是黄色. The initial design for the Avantime hadn?t included facility for multiplex wiring, a feature that allowed all sorts of ?plug and play?最初设计为avantime嗳气?笔设施包括多重布线、允许各种专题?即插即用? electronic gizmos to be added or deleted as required.电子行销将视需要增减. Realising that using a traditional wiring loom would render the futuristic-looking Avantime a touch archaic, a solution was designed that offered a rudimentary multiplex system, but this put Avantime production back another year.当知道用传统织布会使未来布线瞻avantime摸跟不上该办法旨在提供一个起码的多重系统,但这回提出avantime生产一年.
This may not have been hugely significant in the Avantime?s fate, but its UK on sale date of summer 2002 saw advance orders looking pitiful.这可能没有很大的意义avantime?收盘命运但英国发售日期2002年夏季预订展望可怜. Nobody, it seems, was interested in buying a Renault luxury coupe built on an Espace chassis.无人,似乎是有意买雷诺豪华采伐协商建立一个底盘. Worse still, Renault had withdrawn Espace production from Matra?s Romarantin factory in central France, leaving it with just the Avantime to rely upon.更糟的是,雷诺已退出协商,由马特拉生产?收盘romarantin厂环法它刚刚离开avantime依赖. With global orders totalling 15 cars a day, the plant proved uneconomic and the decision to can the Avantime was taken in February 2003.全球汽车订单共十五天,家畜和植物证实能avantime决定于2003年2月被. In a statement it called the Avantime a "commercial failure" and said the decision to end production "drives Matra Automobile to end its activity in auto construction."它在一项声明中称avantime"商业失败"的决定,并表示年底生产"马特拉驱动汽车自动停止其活动建设"的方针. The Avantime?s fate was sealed when Renault themselves washed their hands of the car.<avantime?收盘时是密封的命运自己洗手的雷诺轿车. "We will not take over production. A transfer of these facilities was considered out of the question because of the cost," a Renault spokesman was quoted as saying."我们不会接管生产.这些设施被认为是一种转移出来的问题,由于成本"雷诺发言人引述他的话说. He also stated the Avantime was based on outmoded technology and that it would take too long to restart production in new factories.他还说avantime是基于过时的技术,要花很长时间来启动新的生产工厂. A bold, if brief, chapter in France?s automotive heritage had come to an ignominious end.一个大胆,如果短暂章在法国?汽车收盘文物来个可耻下场.
WHAT YOU GET 什么才叫 
The shape is going to attract and repel equal quantities of customers, being essentially a bevel-hipped three-door MPV with a vertical rear window finished off by a jutting bottom.形状如何吸引和排斥同等数量的用户,基本上被锥-砌筑3门巡逻艇有垂直屋后窗户喝光了巨型底部. The detailing is fantastic, with crazily angled figure-eight tail lights, xenon headlamps with gill slats as eyebrows, doors which hinge outwards and then swing open and pillarless side windows which, coupled with the enormous sunroof, lend credence to Renault?s assault on the four-seater cabriolet market.详细的是奇妙,角度与疯狂人物-八尾灯,氙气大灯作为板条与乐平眉毛、门铰向外方柱,然后展开公开和窗口,加上巨大天窗,雷诺使人相信?收盘殴打四名座位cabriolet市场. Avantime?avantime? You bet.你打赌. Renault describe the car as having a "feline front and a beefier and more propulsive rear", although the vision of a cloven-hoofed barrel-bottomed cat probably sells the Avantime short.雷诺轿车形容为具有"猫战线和后方beefier多推进"、虽然视力有偶蹄桶-格猫可能出售avantime短.
Rear seat space is good, as it should be for a vehicle that does away with the Espace?s third row of seats, but it?s not possible to get your toes under the front seats, which limits ultimate legroom.后座空间是好的它应为一辆车,摒弃了协商?第三排座位的,但它?收盘无法了解你的脚在前座,这限制终极legroom. One switch lowers all the side windows and the sunroof, something owners would be well advised to steer clear of at their local safari park.一转降低侧窗和天窗,全部、一些车主应该尽量避开在当地的野生动物园. Despite approaching the Avantime with some cynicism, the execution of the product is so adventurous, so laudable and so beyond the normal frame of reference that one can?t help but develop a sneaking admiration for it.尽管有些接近avantime冷嘲,199等产品的冒险,所以值得称赞等超出正常范围内,可以吗?笔帮忙开发偷跑钦佩.
One area where the Avantime reverts to convention is in the loading bay, with a 60/40 rear seat giving access to 530 litres below the parcel shelf and a total of 900-litre when loaded to the head lining.一个领域是在公约avantime权时落湾60/40后座与530升以下的给予进入货架和包裹共900公升装的头部,当衬砌. There?s a wide array of interior trim choices, mostly in muted colours including three different shades of grey, which Renault appear to believe is the ?new black?.?收盘各种室内笔挺的选择,其中包括三大部分静颜色深绿灰色,雷诺似乎相信这是?新黑?. The multiplex wiring system allows the easy fitment of ESP stability control, electrochromic mirrors, ABS, brake assist, electronic brakeforce distribution and a whole barrage of airbags, all controlled by a tiny electronic brain.布线系统的多重容易让装修除尘器稳定控制、电镜、ABS的,刹车协助电子brakeforce分布和整体眼花气袋,所有电子控制的小小脑. In fact, for a car that purports to be ahead of its time, the electronic innovation of the Avantime looks distinctly modest compared to, say, Mercedes S-class models which have been on sale now for a few years.其实,一辆汽车,它的意图是提前时间电子创新的avantime显得比较温和明显,例如奔驰的S级销售模式,现在已经好几年.
As touched upon previously, multiplex wiring, a necessity in this class, was never a part of the Avantime?s initial design and had to be subsequently incorporated in order to provide the sophisticated functions (such as rain-sensing wipers and sunroof glass) that customers paying this much expect.正如先前提到,多重接线,这一类的必需品,从来avantime的一部分?收盘初步设计,并已被纳入计划,以提供精密的功能(如雨水传感刮水器、玻璃天窗)顾客付出这么多的期望. It?s probably the reason why some features, such as the Laguna?s trick credit-card key system, aren?t included in the Avantime ??收盘原因大概有特色,如丽?伎俩信用卡关键系统西哈莫尼?笔在avantime? the development cycles became too tight.开发周期变得过于紧张.
WHAT YOU PAY 您付出
Prices for an 02-registered Avantime 2.0-litre Dynamique start at £13,500 with a low mileage 03-plated example starting at £15,900.价格为2002年注册avantime2.0公升动态监测开始与低里程1.35万英镑2003年镀例子从15900英镑. The 3.0-litre Privilege versions are very rare and £14,500 should turn up a well looked after 02-registered car.3.0公升版本非常稀有的特权应该14,500英镑挖到了不俗1902年注册的汽车. Insurance is fairly steep, the 2.0-litre car rated at Group 15 and the 3.0-litre version Group 16.保险是比较陡峭,2.0公升汽车集团153.0伏特升版小组16.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR 寻找什么
Little goes wrong with the engine and running gear but there are plenty of other things to keep an eye out for.很少出错的发动机和传动装置,但也存在不少其他东西换证. Body damage is the first as Avantime spares can be tricky to get hold of and any misalignment in the hideously complex doors will be costly to rectify.首体损坏备件可作为avantime刁钻掌握任何不对的令人发指的大门将复杂昂贵纠正. The multitude of hastily developed electronics inside the car are also rather error prone.广大匆匆发达电子车内也比较容易失误. Many Avantimes show spurious warning lights on the fascia.许多警告灯就avantimes显示杂散筋膜. Alarm and immobiliser systems have also proved temperamental.防盗报警系统也印证斗气.
REPLACEMENT PARTS 替换零件
(Based on an 02 Avantime 2.0 Dynamique) Exterior parts for the Avantime are expensive.(基于2002年avantime2.0动态监测)外观部分为avantime昂贵. A new windscreen is in the region of £450 and the mirrors alone are the best part of £200 each.新挡风玻璃则约为450英镑,而仅是最好的镜子部分每200英镑. A front bumper assembly is £245.前保险杠的装配245英镑. Elsewhere costs are kept to a more reasonable level.其他成本保持在合理水平. Both engines are Renault stalwarts so costs won?t be too high for engine ancillaries and consumables.无论雷诺引擎夺得干将等费用?笔过高辅助发动机和消耗品.
ON THE ROAD 在路上
The 3.0-litre V6 engine as fitted to flagship models is the same 210bhp unit as fitted to range-topping Laguna models and is enough to punt the Avantime up to 137mph, yet can average 25mpg.3.0升V6发动机装配作为旗舰型号是同一210bhp单位安装距离高居丽模范和足以达到137mphavantime踢了,但平均可以25mpg. Although the automatic gearbox feels better suited to the Avantime V6, the manual gearbox makes it surprisingly good fun to hustle about.虽然自动变速器的感觉更适合avantimeV6导、手册变速箱使得出乎意料的好乐趣闹市. Otherwise, anybody who?s driven an Espace will get a strong sense of déjà vu, with many of the minor controls being purloined from the MPV.否则,如果谁?收盘协商会带动一个强烈déjà武、许多未成年人偷自管的巡逻艇. There are some faults which luxury car buyers won?t be used to - the way the doors judder into place and the modest turn of speed - but they pale into insignificance next to the satisfaction of making the average coupe/cabriolet/4x4 appear about as original as an ABBA tribute band.其中有一些失误,夺得豪华车买主?笔用-地抖动起来,谦虚门之交速度却是小巫见大巫旁边的平均满意coupe/cabriolet/4x4出现大约为使原作为雅伯乐队致敬.
OVERALL 总体
If the Avantime proved a prize turkey first time round, what?s to stop it being an equal dud on the used market?如果avantime土耳其首次证实奖回合什么?收盘阻止它作为一个平等的哑弹用市场? A few things weigh in its favour.有几件重达对它有利. With the edge taken off its ridiculous pricing no longer looks quite such an anomaly.随着价格优势不再起飞看似很可笑的这种反常. Secondly, history may well look upon it a little more sympathetically than European new car buyers ever did, making the Avantime a charmingly idiosyncratic purchase.其次,它的历史可能视多体谅新购车比以往欧洲、使一个古拙奇特avantime购买. It would be interesting to see the market research Renault undertook when Avantime project was in its earliest days because there must be figures somewhere indicating a huge untapped market of customers just waiting for a big coupe based on an MPV with styling that causes pedestrians to walk into lamp posts.这是有趣的市场调查,看看雷诺承诺当avantime项目初期,因为它必须有一个庞大的数字表明某处等待开发的市场大客户的基础上巡逻艇与造型采伐造成行人走进灯柱. The joke was on someone.被别人笑话的. Was it us or was it Renault?它是我们还是有人雷诺?
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