Year: 2002 Make: Renault Model: Avantime Privilege Registration: HX52 ULJ Chassis No: VF8DEOT0226524037 Engine No: F133266 Mileage: 137,262 Patrick Le Quement's 2+3 Coupé GT MPV concept was revealed at the Paris Motor Show in 1998.

The reaction from the motoring press was unanimously positive prompting Renault to take the very bold step of launching their 'Avantime' (meaning ahead-of-time) into production largely unchanged.

This radical flagship not only had handsome good looks but also an abundance of luxuries, safety features and advanced engineering.

Highlights included unique double-hinged 'kinematic' pillarless doors allowing easy access to the front and rear seats, the world’s largest opening glass sunroof at the time featuring strengthened heat-reflecting tinted glass, theatre seating, galvanised steel chassis with aluminium upper structure, cavernous 530 litre boot, Xenon headlights and a 'grand air' mode which retracts the 1m² glass sunroof at the same time as the pillarles...