If Batman Was French, He'd Drive The Brilliantly Bonkers Renault Trezor Concept

Renault has produced another showstopper of a concept, and it looks like the sort of ride Bruce Wayne's alter ego would appreciate

Matt Robinson

29 Sep 2016

If Batman Was French, He'd Drive The Brilliantly Bonkers Renault Trezor Concept

Be it Peugeot, Citroen or Renault, the main French manufacturers know a thing or two about making a mad concept. They’re so cool, we usually forgive the fact they’ll never, ever be made, and concepts certainly don’t get much cooler than this: the Renault Trezor.

It’s powered by a single 350bhp motor pinched from Renault’s Formula E programme, powered by a pair of self-cooling batteries. The motorsport-derived electric poke is able to launch the 1600kg coupe from 0-62mph in under four seconds.

So it’s certainly fast, but what’s it for? The French company says that the Trezor “offers a foretaste of the connectivity and increasingly refined interiors in future Renaults,” so in other words, it’s a design exercise, and it’s an amazingly striking one at that.

With a length of almost five metres and a height just over a metre it has an spectacularly sleek aesthetic. Imagine it splashed in matte black paint, and it could easily find a place in Bruce Wayne’s secret garage. Well, if he was a little more stylish. And French.

Our favourite detail? It has to be the massive, one-piece clamshell roof. Because doors are too mainstream, obviously.

Open up that ‘lid’, and you’re shown a retro/modern mash-up of an interior, with lashings of red leather and an L-shaped touchscreen that makes up the instrument cluster and centre console. Oh, and if that isn’t enough concept future-ness for you, now’s probably a good time to mention that the Trezor has an autonomous mode too.

As far as outlandish, futuristic concepts go, we reckon this is one of the best we’ve seen in years. What do you think?

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Would also make a good Nissan. Or Mercedes.

Or James May would say : “ It’s the new Dacia Sandero “

In theory. But probably not with weird red tinted windows

By the time that he gets to the crime scene, the criminals would of escaped because of how long it would of taken him to get out of the car

If only those French concepts turned into reality… Peugeot Onyx, Citroën GT, Renault Trezor… They’re beautiful af, but concepts.

They only want to show that they still know how to built good interesting cars, before going back to built ‘meh’ cars.

Because…

Legislation: in fact there are a lot, I mean a lot, of rules that they have to follow to make a car road legal, so most concept cars can’t be made road legal without big changes (mainly to improve safety) which make them look more like normal cars do.
Costs. Even if you were allowed to replace mirrors with cameras and make the design as futuristic as possible, you probably would still stay away from that if you don’t want to end up with a car which costs millions to manufacture. Especially with commercial vehicles which need to be as robust and cheap as possible
Fear. This one actually has some effect too. Generally, people don’t like change, manufacturers know that and they don’t want to lose their customers by making big design leaps. So if someone’s grandma was driving a Honda Jazz for the last decade and then she is presented with a UFO covered with touchscreens and a Honda Jazz badge, its unlikely that she’s gonna like it and buy it.