Renault Classic is a department of the Marketing and Communications division of the French car brand Renault, headed by Mr. Hugues Portron and a team of around 10 people. This department preserves, renovates and exhibits historic Renault vehicles.
The Renault Classic collection (it is not a museum normally open to the public) includes more than 800 vehicles reflecting the inventiveness and know-how of the company founded in 1898 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Between older and more recent vehicles, production or racing, the collection includes models that have marked several generations of car enthusiasts, such as one of the famous taxis of the Marne, the Type NN, the Juvaquatre, Floride, Estafette, Renault 4, Renault 5 and many more.
It also includes some noteworthy curiosities: Renault concept cars from all eras, a tire-mounted subway train, two platform buses, two locomotives, a scenic train, a WWI FT-17 tank ... treasures that testify to Renault's inventiveness and know-how for over a century.
The impressive collection of cars is enriched by a documentary collection of several thousand linear meters of archive, more than 3.200 miniatures and toys, 1.900 posters, various objects and about 270 1/5 scale models.
A living collection, regularly exhibiting vehicles at exhibitions, shows, historic races, and sporting events across Europe (Le Mans Classic, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Retromobile, car shows, etc.) and so millions of people have had the opportunity to enter in contact with the vehicles of the Renault Collection.
