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Renault 18 was a medium-high-end car produced between 1978 and 1989 by the French car manufacturer Renault and until 1994 in Argentina at the local Renault plant.

History

Debut
When the Renault 12, average car of discreet success, already listed since 1969, began to show the first signs of seniority, began to work at his heir. The project began in the second half of 1976 and provided a slightly higher orientation car than the R12, going to fit into the middle-high band (no longer just an average like the R12 itself) and rival with cars such as the Opel Ascona and the Alfetta: in short, it had not to simply collect the witness of the R12, but also the one of the largest R16, and put in the second half of the two, with a classic body shop with three volumes borrowed from the first. Another great requirement that you wanted from that car was to continue the career of world car already successfully carried out by the R12 itself. The gestation of the new car proved relatively short, also because it opted for many technical solutions already tested on R12 and R16 and therefore it was not necessary to spend time designing something new. Therefore, after eighteen months, in March 1978, the new car was presented with the name Renault 18: the frame was that of the Geneva Motor Show.

Classic design

With regard to the design of the car body, the team led by the design manager Renault, Gaston Juchet, preferred to keep on the classic, thus again proposing a three-volume car body, but with the softer and less spigolose lines, as well as pleasing. The softer was the front, with the hornet wire grille and slightly inclined backwards and with new rectangular headlights of greater dimensions than those of the R12. Such headlights were integrated by direction indicators that partially bound towards the fender, giving rise to a slightly enveloping optical group. Also sideways the car shows the classicity of its lines, but also the most modernity in drawing them, visible for example in the soft connection between the rear mount (more simple and linear as design than that of the R12) and the tail. The latter was characterized by quadrangular optical groups also slightly enveloping and a less epic design.
Even the cabin, brighter than the R12 thanks to the greater glazed surface, was of classic and also rather rational type: the seats were judged well designed and ergonomic and the instrumentation decidedly complete, with a dashboard equipped with anti-glare eyelid and numerous service spies. Good judgments on the central console, including predisposition for autoradio, air conditioner and ashtray.

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