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While a succession of
high-powered Renault race cars
thrilled the vast,
135,000-strong crowd at
Silverstone during the World
Series by Renault weekend, the
second largest motorsport event
in the UK, a futuristic electric
car was generating quite a buzz
of its own at the Goodwood
Festival of Speed.
 Over
the three-day event, Renault’s
Z.E. (Zero Emission) Concept,
which dazzled at the Paris Motor
Show a few months ago, joined
two other ultra-rare cars,
Ondelios and a 1959 electric
Dauphine, from the brand’s Paris
museum to showcase the French
marque’s green credentials.
Not just transported over the
English Channel to sit idle in
Renault’s area of the Goodwood
FoS-Tech Pavilion, the Kangoo be
bop-based three-door also took
to the hillclimb route, much to
the delight of the awe-inspired
onlookers.
As
the only one of its kind, and
worth around £2 million, the
hand-built concept car navigated
its way serenely around the
route, providing a remarkable
contrast to the vintage road and
race cars around it. At one
point on the route, close to
Goodwood House, the outlandish
Z.E. Concept, replete with its
Acid Green windows and
roof-mounted solar panels,
joined a Jaguar XJ13 and Aston
Martin DBR1 for arguably one of
the most surreal car parade
sights ever seen at the Goodwood
Festival. |
