Prototype Unregistered - Special prototype version of the Spider - Windscreen model - Iconic colour scheme - No reserve   “What really drives Renault Sport is innovation”, its director Christian Contzen explained, adding: “Creating the Spider didn’t really take us that far away from our usual field of work.

The Spider is truly innovative, technically as much as socially, even culturally.

It’s marvellous how you can use it.

(...) It combines sport, escape and freedom.” Created from a blank sheet of paper and Renault Sport’s first-ever road car, the Spider remains a unique model in Renault's history.

At a time when the manufacturer was at the top of its game in Formula 1 with its unbeatable engines, it unveiled at the 1995 Geneva Motor Show this radical mid-engined roadster with a tubular aluminium chassis designed by Fior Technology and clothed in a basic composite body, weighing 930kg.

With only one goal in mind: the pleasure of driving, the purest of sensations. The Spider was as...