The Avantime was designed and developed in-house by Renault affiliate Matra and was conceived by Philippe Guedon, head of the automotive division at Matra, who "believed that the children of Espace owners remained loyal to the car even after they had grown up and left home. As a result, the renowned MPV was gaining a generation of new drivers."[3] Styled by Patrick Le Quement, the Avantime was intended to combine the space of an MPV with four-place pillarless qualities of a coupe.[4] Regarding the styling, Thierry Metroz, design project manager, said, "We wanted someone walking around the car to be continually astonished."[5] The one-box design eliminated B-pillars and featured an aluminum structure, aluminum panels for the greenhouse and a full sunroof of strengthened heat-reflecting glass.[6] The interior featured four seats each with built-in seatbelts and Bridge of Weir leather.[6] To facilitate access to the rear seats, two long doors featured a double parallel-opening hinge system (marketed as "double-kinematic") that maximized access with minimal outswing of the doors.[3] Front side windows lowered automatically when either of the front seats folded forward to further facilitate entry to the rear two seats.[6] Windows featured power-deployable sunshades[2], and the H-points of the rear two seats were higher than the forward two seats, giving the Avantime "theater seating."[5] The luggage compartment featured a retaining system using retractable straps,[6] and all Avantimes featured a two-tone look created by the exposed aluminium of the greenhouse. The windows and panoramic sunroof could open automatically via a single, headliner mounted control,[2] to give the Avantime an 'open air' mode. The design borrowed the automotive space frame of the first generation Renault Espace (load bearing galvanized structure with non-load bearing composite panels) utilizing Renault's 24 valve, 207 hp (152 kW) 3.0L V6 engine was coupled to a 6-speed transmission.

Several weeks ago I found a roll of film in the back seat of my car. To be accurate, it was on the floor of the backseat of my car. It was a roll of Kodak ELITEchrome which I had no recollection of either ever having bought or having been given to me. The leader was extended past the normal position when you open a new roll of film. So I figured it had never been shot, but perhaps had been tampered with in some way. I loaded in the camera two weeks ago and had a go at it to see what would happen. Sure enough the film was funky. All the images came back a bit pink. This is nothing I can't live with. The cool thing is someone and done some shooting on this role. The first four images came out double exposed. The person who had this roll before me shot 5 frames and then rewound the film but left the leader out so it could be loaded again and more pictures could be taken. The underlying images are of cows, fields, a soccer ball, and rolling mountains in the background. This film came from somewhere other than Miami! Then it Clicked! Back in November I bought a Pentax K-1000 on Ebay for my daughter for Christmas. I had opened the the box in the car and rummaged through it to make certain everything was there. The roll must have fallen on the floorboards since that time waiting for me to find it. Has anyone read this far? So I must thank the Ebay lady I bought the camera from for giving me such a funky image. See full size for all the cow goodness. Shot with Pentax K-1000 with a Tamron SP f 3.5 28-80mm on Kodak ELITEchrome 200 expired. Scanned with Nikon Coolscan V ED.