A true ‘voiture à vivre’, Renault 16 was designed to stand apart from the competition. Launched in 1965, it premiered a new body style, with hatchback access to the boot. More versatile than any of its contemporaries, Renault 16 included a bench seat adjustable for a 'holiday travel' position. It met the needs of families looking for a car that suited their lifestyles, while keeping pace with rapid social change.
Since then, Renault has continued to innovate with family cars that caught the mood of their times. This was true in the 1980s with Espace, a car that started a revolution with its groundbreaking one-box design and modular layout. In the 1990s, Renault did it again with Scénic, the first compact MPV. Designed to resemble a cocoon, Scénic featured an interior dedicated to passenger well-being.
Symbioz shares this same DNA. Able to adapt its boot and passenger compartment to family needs, with useful technologies delivering human added value and compact dimensions that are also ideal for city driving, it joins a long line of versatile ‘voitures à vivre’, reflecting its times. Showcasing Renault's new design language, Symbioz follows on from the recent Scénic E-Tech electric and New Captur.
Since then, Renault has continued to innovate with family cars that caught the mood of their times. This was true in the 1980s with Espace, a car that started a revolution with its groundbreaking one-box design and modular layout. In the 1990s, Renault did it again with Scénic, the first compact MPV. Designed to resemble a cocoon, Scénic featured an interior dedicated to passenger well-being.
Symbioz shares this same DNA. Able to adapt its boot and passenger compartment to family needs, with useful technologies delivering human added value and compact dimensions that are also ideal for city driving, it joins a long line of versatile ‘voitures à vivre’, reflecting its times. Showcasing Renault's new design language, Symbioz follows on from the recent Scénic E-Tech electric and New Captur.
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00:30offers a very consistent lineup in this segment.
00:32We have two full electric cars with Megane and Scenic
00:36and an e-tech hybrid.
00:37We propose three family cars
00:40with Symbios Austral and Espace
00:42in five or seven-seater versions.
00:45Symbios is a great car.
00:46It's at the heart of the European market.
00:48So it's a very clever product, I think, in the lineup.
00:50Regarding, again, the price that we propose,
00:53you get a lot of value for your money.
00:56Renault's latest model is really next-gen voiture à vivre,
01:01made for everyone.
01:02Say hello to Renault Symbios.
01:19What I really like about this car
01:21is that it takes the best from our latest cars
01:25and the best of voiture à vivre in symbiosis
01:28rather than in synthesis.
01:30The spirit of voiture à vivre is to feel at home inside the car,
01:34and it was one of the assets of the Renault 16.
01:37When it appeared in 1965,
01:39it was very different from all the cars you can see in the street.
01:43And this philosophy also continued in the history of Renault.
01:47I'm thinking about the Renault Espace
01:49that appeared in the 80s,
01:51and also later on with the Renault Scenic in the 90s,
01:54which also was disruptive on its market.
01:57Symbios brings all the qualities to enhance its voiture à vivre DNA.
02:02A large boot with capacity of up to 624 litres.
02:07Modularity with its sliding rear bench.
02:11The trick of the Symbios is to be based on a platform
02:15that is already very generous in terms of dimension
02:18and especially interior space.
02:20That makes Symbios a multi-skilled, multifunctional car
02:24ideal for all needs, family life and work life.
02:28One of the main features I would like to talk about
02:31is the easy trunk access
02:33with a switch at the left of the steering wheel
02:36or just by passing the leg under the trunk.
02:41When you have your hands full,
02:43you can automatically open the trunk.
02:46The opening is wide and the volume is nice and square,
02:49so it's 100% useful for the customer.
02:52Symbios benefits from the very best of the new Renault line-up.
02:56Our new design, developed by Gilles Vidal and his team,
03:00with, for example, its new light signature.
03:03If you look at the front-end design, for instance,
03:05it's got this little toughness yet technicality about it.
03:09So whether it's the taillights or the front lights
03:11or some sharper lines in the bodywork,
03:13it feels dynamic, it feels strong,
03:15it feels homogeneous and compact and dense.
03:18If you look at the side view of the car,
03:20the three-quarter rear view of the car,
03:22it's a very generous, habitable car.
03:26It's not boxy at the same time in terms of look.
03:29It's a very characterful car,
03:30which manages, I think, to find this balance
03:33between, again, a very dynamic-looking car,
03:35a very nimble-looking car even,
03:37and yet a very roomy, practical car at the same time.
03:44Our highly efficient E-TECH full hybrid technology
03:49to meet the challenges of the energy transition.
03:52It is a reliable engine at the best level of performance
03:56for our customers,
03:57with up to 80% driving in town in electric mode
04:02without any charging constraints
04:04and with up to 40% fuel economy,
04:06better than the best of diesels.
04:08Third, comfort and space, thanks to SolarBay,
04:12an innovation with a significant added human value.
04:16What impresses you immediately when you enter the car
04:19is the opacifying SolarBay
04:21with the liquid crystal technology.
04:23The SolarBay is controlled either by voice recognition
04:27with Google Assistant
04:29or by a switch near the overhead lamp.
04:32And then, the best multimedia system on the market.
04:35If you look at the cockpit,
04:37there's an amazing UX UI design with a 10.4-inch screen.
04:41Of course, we integrate on Symbios
04:43our state-of-the-art open R-Link operated by Google,
04:47as easy to use as your smartphone.
04:49And so, what we are looking for in the entire is
04:52to have, again, a lot of technicality,
04:54a lot of very clever interfaces,
04:57but yet we want to feel at home.
04:59So, this digital approach that we have
05:02between physical and digital,
05:04between the analogic solutions
05:06and the digital and pixel and screen solutions,
05:09we want to find this perfect balance
05:11so that our clients, our users,
05:13the driver, the passengers,
05:15will feel just right.
05:17They are not in a clinical cold tech product,
05:21but they are almost in a moving room of their own home.
05:24They must feel like this.
05:27Design ultimately needs to connect
05:31intuitively, naturally, humans.
05:34Symbios is a perfect car for living together,
05:38just as its name suggests.
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