Renault Avantime

The Avantime started out as a rather sleek concept car. Enough so that it gathered enough attention that Renault put it into production. Sort of...

What was retained - and have become an awkward Renault styling - are the "bustle back" (aka - budonkadonk) and strange cutlines. An example is the rear taillights which are made of a couple triangles positioned like an hourglass. And the huuuuuge doors.

In the original, the long doors were for ease on ingress to the 4 seater coupe. However in translation to the production version, they decided to make it more space efficient and change it into a quasi-minivan. So now it's a luxury sedan/sports coupe/minivan. As strange as THAT sounds, Mercedes seems to be trying a similar but not as bizarre route with the new R-Classe.