Renault stops the production of the Espace
- Renault announced last year that the current Espace model (D-segment MPV) would not be replaced, due to growing customer disinterest in MPVs. SUVs have gradually replaced these vehicles pioneered by Espace in 1984, at least in Europe. But SUVs have done much more than substitute for MPVs, as this market never exceeded 15% of the European market (the peak of MPV sales in Europe was reached in 2005), while SUVs now occupy nearly 40% of the European market. SUVs have therefore mainly bitten on sedans and station wagons, in addition to MPVs.
- Today, the market share of MPVs is less than 4% in Europe and Renault considers that it is no longer necessary to continue the production of its Espacemodel which was sold less than 5,000 sales in 2020. The French carmaker has therefore just communicated that it he will stop the production of this model in its Douai plant, after 1,348,000 units produced since 1984, in five different generations (1984, 1991, 1996, 2002, 2014).
- The Renault Espace (designed by Matra) has been an important model in the history of the automobile as it was the first European MPV launched in 1984 (the Chrysler Voyager had been launched in the United States a year before) and has created a new market segment into which all the other European carmakers have joined. Renault has indicated that the Scénic (C-segment MPV) will also be discontinued without replacement before 2023.
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