Renault secures top spot as Concept COTY at Geneva Car Design Awards
The sleek Renault Trezor has received the highest honour as 2016's Concept Car of the Year.
A STYLISH Renault Trezor has received the highest honour at the Geneva Car Design Awards.
Voted 2016's Concept Car Design of the Year, the Trezor ranked most highly in the voting of a 20-strong judging panel featuring some of the top car designers in the world.
“It was a really close-run race this year but Renault’s low-slung, long-nosed, rear-wheel drive, two-seater electric GT clearly appealed to our panel of normally hard-to-please professional car designers," Car Design Review 4’s editor, Guy Bird, said.
"Judge after judge praised the French EV concept’s dramatic exterior proportions, its interior flair and magnificent use of materials and the strong design connection between exterior and interior.
"All round, the Trezor is a triumph of creative design and a worthy winner of the 2016 Concept Car Design of the Year.”
Senior vice-president of Groupe Renault, Laurens van den Acker, said the award will only inspire the French automobile manufacturer to continue to create.
“It’s an honour to receive this award, because it’s voted by our peers, and that’s the hardest audience to satisfy," he said.
It’s great for our design team and their creativity, and I think it only makes us hungry for more, it stimulates us to continue.”