saw one today, i knew that the doors were big but not that big, a fcuk me the size of the hinges on them. how many exactly were sold because i've heard they've stopped making them because of sales targets.

Cheap as chips............. Would hate to be selling one!!

Saw one at the tip (dropping off, not staying), it was stunning !

Superb looking thing in Mettalic blue, cant understand why no one bought them, they all buy bloody silver BMW's and Mercs , I suppose the residuals may be crap but the whole country seems obsessed with German cars, good they may be but god its boring seeing a procession of the same thing with slight difference in the numbers on the back.

I think 276 were sold if i remember correctly,JC said it on Top Gear 2 weeks ago.

I have seen on and had to look twice........Different in a Fiat Multipla kind of way;)

I bet you could easily get 22" wheels on one,it would look the Daddy then:)

Something like the 276 quoted, including one for every dealer a s a demonstrator!!!!!!!!!

TIFF-C20WTH are you a boy racer by any chance:D lol

Too many..hehe

Build quality is appalling, they were made my MATRA who I seem to remember also made the Rancho thing (won't call it a car).

They look pretty weird too, an odd concept a 2 door coupe people carrier thing. Basically a rebodied last generation Espace I think.

Those Frogs eh?

Nacro, the Matra was 20 odd years ago, nothing could be as bad as the Rancho !

Chosen one

Hardly mate;)i dont think a boy racer would be able to afford one tyre for a 22" wheel:)

I heard they'd stopped making them too, summat to do with the shells flexing...enough to crack the screens apparently:eek:

I don't like the styling on any of the new Renaults, someone should stop them,it's not even funny:eek:

Actually I like the Clio but after reading that thread the other day I'd never buy one!:d

There have been 346 Avantime's sold in the UK up until the end of last month. Most popular are the 3.0 V6 auto's with 176 sold. They have ceased production of the Avantime now as it was uneconomic to continue building them.

Matra who were building them also used to build the Espace for Renault. But the latest version of the Esapce launched late last year has been brought in house and will be built solely by Renault. Therefore Matra were left building the Avantime only, and with the sales not matching the forecasts, Reanult halted production due to the high costs and losses made on each one being sold.

[Edited by Reffro - 5/20/2003 9:34:13 AM]

Bizzarely enough I saw 2 :eek: yesterday, one in blue the other in red.

Do you think there's a Avantime website ?? If there is, I bet the "Was it you" thread is pretty quiet :D :D :D. All the owners could be on first name terms...

Ed