The sharing values that prevailed in the years 1990-2000 are discreetly rehabilitated by certain new models.
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Among manufacturers, the term minivan is always taboo. Renault’s future electric family, expected in 2024, is called Scénic -the name of one of these “monovolume” models which met with great success in the 1990s-2000, before knowing an irremediable decline -, its Designers look elsewhere and boast of having imagined a “new morphology” for this model. They evoke a common vocation of family, but refuse to see an heir to space, figurehead of a design in curves and standard bearer of “non-aggressive” automobile values (it looks today to be “benevolent” ) of the very end of the 20th e century.
However, if we ignore its more angular forms and its well -marked hood – so many signs of the changes instilled by Gilles Vidal, the former boss of Peugeot style -, the future scenic, revealed at the end In its almost final version, can hardly deny its origins. The bulky cabin, the flat floor, the interior arrangement (still at the prototype stage), which gives pride of place to the passengers at the rear, or the glass surface higher than the average evoke the characteristics dear to the minivan, whose brand at the diamond was the initiator in Europe. Nothing to do with the limited interior space of a sedan or that of a high perched SUV, generally disappointing.
Renault, whose advertising expression has just put the slogan of the “living cars” born in 1984 and which marked a golden age of the manufacturer, seems to have developed a subliminal minivan. Hard outside but tender inside, its tense outdoor lines hide a family cocoon. Gilles Vidal does not completely den. “The next scenic will offer all the advantages of a minivan, but not its external look,” admits the new design manager. “People no longer buy minivan. They want fluid, technological cars with a different personality.”
Excellent habitability-encomprint.
A BMW, carrying a very different automotive culture, he also did not escape that the cheesy of the minivan did not mean that the demand in favor of functional family (before being statutory) had disappeared. Very habitable and knowing how to keep its distance from the sacrosanct sportness that the brand cultivates, without ever being boring, the 2 series Active Tourer (which some considered to be only a test) was produced at 400 000 units since 2014. It has just been renewed.
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