Renault Vel Satis

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Renault Vel Satis

The Renault Vel Satis is an executive car

Executive car

Executive car is a British English term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car. In official use, the term is adopted by EuroNCAP, a European organization founded to test car safety....
produced by the French manufacturer Renault. It was launched at the 2001 Geneva Motorshow

Salon International de l'Auto

File:IntAutoSalonGenf08.JPGFile:Automobilsalon Genf2006.jpgThe International Geneva Motor Show is an annual auto show held in March in the Switzerland city of Geneva....
to replace the already-discontinued Safrane

Renault Safrane

The Renault Safrane was an executive car designed and built by the France manufacturer Renault from 1992 to 2000. Throughout its lifespan it remained the most expensive and most luxurious Renault available....
and has nothing in common with the 1990s concept car of the same name.

The name Vel Satis is an acronym for Velocity and Satisfaction.

A specially prepared Vel Satis is used by the President of France.

Vel Satis is distinguished by its unusual height, which benefits interior space but results in rather ungainly proportions.

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The Vel Satis is distinguished by its unusual height, which benefits interior space but results in rather ungainly proportions. It has a five-star EuroNCAP

EuroNCAP

The European New Car Assessment Programme is a European car safety performance assessment programme founded in 1997 by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport....
safety rating and is available with a variety of engines:

4-cylinder, 16-valve, turbocharged 2.0-litre
Nissan-sourced 24-valve, 3.5-litre V6
Nissan VQ engine

The VQ engine is a V6 piston engine produced by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. with displacements varying from 2.0 L to 4.0 L . It is an aluminum cylinder block DOHC 4-valve design with aluminum cylinder head....
4-cylinder, 16-valve, 2.2-litre direct-injection turbodiesel
Turbodiesel

Turbodiesel refers to any diesel engine with a turbocharger. Turbocharging is the norm rather than the exception in modern car and truck diesel engines....
Isuzu
DMAX V6 engine

The DMAX V6 engine is a Diesel engine. It was designed, and is produced by Isuzu in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan but the design rights to the engine are now owned by General Motors Corporation....
-sourced 24-valve 3.0-litre direct-injection turbodiesel

The Vel Satis shares its "platform" (chassis, powertrain, assembly process) with the Laguna and Espace IV and is produced on the same assembly line in Sandouville, France

France

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Renault UK decided not to develop a right-hand drive version of the facelifted 2005 year model Vel Satis, as sales of the model had been poor in the United Kingdom since launch. Although 3,500 sales were predicted, only a third of these were achieved.

This came only two years after the Avantime

Renault Avantime

The Renault Avantime was a coup? automobile marketed by the France manufacturer Renault between 2001 and 2003. The car, which had a radical and unique design, suffered from very poor sales and was discontinued after only two years of production....
coupé/MPV was discontinued by Renault, which was equally as ambitious in its design.

The 2006 model year Vel Satis features a reprofiled front grille section with less chrome, giving it an appearance similar to more recent concept cars from the brand.

Renault Vel Satis

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