The Restomod signed by the French artist now ïto brings the iconic coupe back to life in the seventies by the Losanga house, the Renault 17
Design, tradition and innovation. Past and future merge together in the show car R17 Electric Restomod born from the inspiration of the French artist Now ïto and revealed in preview in Italy by Renault at Milan Fashion Week. A restomod in the name of the back-fashion that brings back to life the legendary coupe made in the seventies by the Casa della Losanga, the mythical Renault 17. An exclusive creative project that expresses the Renave on the design strategy aimed at “bringing legends back to life – as Laurens Van Den Acker, Design Renault Group Design – says and in creating tomorrow’s legends”. A strategy started in 2021 with a series of projects that reinterpret the extraordinary heritage of the brand, full of emblematic models that have entered, by law, in pop culture.
R17 Electric Restomod
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The show car conceived by Now ïtoone of the most influential designers of his generation, reinvents the look of the Renault 17 Through a bold and modern interpretation of this historical model, at the same time, faithful to the spirit of the brand. The car is driven by an electrical unit mounted in the rear capable of delivering a power of 270 HP. Compared to the original model, the R17 It has been 17 cm to ensure a better road holding, the mudguards and protruding wheels stand out, which give it a more aggressive, but at the same time elegant and contemporary appearance. The rectangular lighthouses with beat corners and rear lights enclosed in a single transverse band, both led, are unpublished. Finally, the bodywork is in carbon fiber and contributes to a significant reduction in the weight of the car of 1.4 tons. Revisiting a mythical car was a complex operation and great challenge for Now ïto who commented: “I wanted to cover Renault 17 with a second skin to enhance it and bring it back to our day by interpreting it with my grammar: fluidity, dynamism, rationality and my own signature: the Simplexity. In fact, I wanted to simplify the complex elements “.