europe was experiencing a baby boom renault boss pierre dreyfus responded with the development of a radically new interior design for a midsize car. to mislead the car tester kristoff power recalls what dr has announced to his team but we've got to see things in a new light a car cannot always consist of four seat selfhood in a trunk we've got to see it as a single space the result was the one thousand nine hundred sixty one renault are for a revolutionary and innovative compact car and in one nine hundred sixty five reno launched the our sixteen a midsize family car with a hatchback a large trunk lid and flexible interior and fate defy me to clinch it. during the design process the engineers had almost total freedom the only requirement was a front wheel drive and she. for years the newly established design department progressed from a prototype to a production model are sixteen and build a new production facility and some. in france. yes and hope for christophe says when the are sixteen was launched the media were impressed they praised the cars a benchmark and symbol of practicality and he