GTP Cool Wall: 2001-2003 Renault Avantime

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2001-2003 Renault Avantime

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Azure Flare
You're detector is defective, but my BS detector works just fine.
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Oh the laughs my avatar twin, oh them laughs. Good one

As for my take I had to ponder really, I soul searched and wandered the streets talking to myself. I felt the sunshine on the side of my face before I made this vote and wondered what this really meant in the world. It was the most soul searching I did since yesterday on where to eat...but I did it.

I went uncool. I'll tell you why (though it wont matter), it's because this is a future cool. A car that tried to out pace it's time frame and lost badly for one makes it a tad uncool, as well as the explaining that goes into it. However, the fact that a car group actually tried to take a bigger interest in the group it was trying to sell too and create this futuristic non cookie cutter machine and even used a group (owned at the time I think) that had a great racing history. They tried to do something a shake up the system and then went and shot themselves by actually releasing a car that was a cookie cutter luxury machine while selling this.

In the future I suspect more vehicle will be like this, hell there are many SUVs that play the same role as some four door sedans with only five seats and all that jazz. So why not this more so in the future? I can see it happening and when it does then it will be quite cool, because it then transcends time.
 
Yes, it's a minivan powered by the 3.0 litre Renault V6. But look at it. It's a spaceship on wheels. It's a solid "cool" for me.
 
Cool. French cars are almost always cool and for a people carrier type of thing it's rather interesting and unique. Top Gear keeps it out of Sub-Zero though.
 
Dagger311
It gets a cool, because turbo coupé, and I don't even really like Renault.
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Joey D
Cool. French cars are almost always cool and for a coupé type of thing it's rather interesting and unique. Top Gear keeps it out of Sub-Zero though.
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Every time you call the Avantime an MPV, a people carrier, or a Bedford Rascal, somebody somewhere in the world dies.
 
I don't see that it has to be classed as anything.

So many cars these days blur the boundaries between the classifications that have been in existence since at least the 60's, a time when cars and car design was much simpler and classification more structured.
 
TheCracker
I don't see that it has to be classed as anything.

So many cars these days blur the boundaries between the classifications that have been in existence since at least the 60's, a time when cars and car design was much simpler and classification more structured.
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This.

No MPV. No fat hatch. No coupe-minivan. No crossoverthingymabob. It's cool and unique enough on it's own to be classified simply as an Avantime.
 
Having had a ride along in a V6, I'd put it right in a special freezer.

It's cool looking, is very spacious and clever and the best part? Exclusive. More so than any modern Aston/Ferrari/Lambo especially round Knightsbridge.
 
The car that defines coolness. In fact it could be the definition of "je ne sais quoi" - that little something all truly cool cars must have. It had so much je ne sais quoi that no-one knew what and they sold eight of them (in the last full year of UK sales).

Breathtakingly cool.
 
Can I just ask how the top gear feature affects the coolness either side of the centre?
 
legacyMACHINE
Can I just ask how the top gear feature affects the coolness either side of the centre?
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Top Gear isn't cool because way too many people take their word as the Gospel truth and get all their car knowledge from them. Top Gear is entertaining, but it isn't a show for cool people.
 
It's a fairly unorthodox, Renault thing. It's awesome.

Sub-Zero.
 
Joey D
Top Gear isn't cool because way too many people take their word as the Gospel truth and get all their car knowledge from them. Top Gear is entertaining, but it isn't a show for cool people.
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A car being on the show doesn't make it uncool. It's like if I drove a Pagani Zonda (Cinque) it wouldn't be any less cool or spectacular.

Wolfe
Anti-Top-Gear hipsterism isn't any cooler than Top Gear worship. :p Both take the show too seriously.
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True. It's a TV show. End.
 
legacyMACHINE
A car being on the show doesn't make it uncool. It's like if I drove a Pagani Zonda (Cinque) it wouldn't be any less cool or spectacular.
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To you maybe, to me anything worshipped by Top Gear is uncool. I like the show and it's entertaining, but it's not informative and turns "car people" (and I use that term loosely) into idiots.
 
I forgot to vote on this, but i would have given it a solid cool. Conical door locater thingys are genius (or maybe i'm confusing it with the concept car).
 
Roger the Horse
How do you work for Top Gear, may I ask?
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Write for a regional outlet. Contributor status only (I'm used to being Road Test Editor... but hey... that can wait)... the advantage is, more doors open for you if you're attached to a big name than if you're working for an independent website. ;) Which means I get to test some really weird (and sometimes bad) stuff.
 
It seems to me that commercial flops, like this Renault, eventually become cool as time passes. A good example is the infamous Ford Edsel- uncool in it's time and yes, ugly, but they are a classic today. The Porsche 914 is a similar example.

Who knows? Maybe one day the Pontiac Aztek, the car that killed America's second-best marque, will be seen as cool.
 

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