The major drive behind the most ambitious concept shown by renault at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show was, according to interior designer Stephane Maiore, “the idea of designing an interior that doesn’t look like an interior”. It certainly doesn’t look like a conventional car cabin, as Maiore’s sketch – full of oval, round and undulating lines – shows. Renault management’s initial brief was to explore urban electric mobility for four people in a fl uid, modern and dynamic fashion. The team was also asked to incorporate, “in a very futuristic way, some genes of the production car”, which is due on European roads by 2012 as a Clio-plus-sized, 4/5- seat supermini with a fully electric powertrain.