Sponsored video: Renault Clio’s ‘va va voom’ button
A Lucire special promotion Today, Lucire has come full circle. One of the earliest stories on the web for our group was on the Renault Clio’s Nicole and Papa campaign, created in the early 1990s by Publicis. The Clio, which was the first Renault to hit the best sellers’ lists consistently in the UK, was […]
Online poll puts Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse as 2012’s most beautiful car
The online poll for the Most Beautiful Car of 2012, run by Eurosport, Festival Automobile International, J. C. Decaux, Bell & Ross, Le Point and Automobiles Classiques, has been won by the new, W176-series Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse. In second place was the third-generation Mazda Atenza, followed by the Renault Clio IV and the BMW 3er-Reihe […]
Lucire’s on Ipad and Android; plus a round-up of some of our latest features
As officially announced in time for our 15th anniversary, Lucire is now available on the Ipad (and Iphone and Ipod Touch) as well as Android. You can check out the Ipad app here, available via Magzter at the Apple App Store, while Google Play has our Android app. There is a charge of US$6·99 per […]
Lucire updates: from new cars to Wonderland, not to mention our downloadable issue
There’s been plenty on the main part of the Lucire website that readers may have missed over the last month. In the ‘Living’ section, publisher Jack Yan has tested the BMW X3 Xdrive20d and, perhaps more down to earth for the majority of our readers, the Renault Mégane 2·0 CVT—well timed as New Zealand readers […]
Sponsored video: new Renault Twingo given away to couple in leap-year proposal
A Lucire special promotion In the 1980s, there was a concern that cars were beginning to look all the same: the same rectangular headlights, the grille-less look, slightly rounded corners, and pretty much the same proportions. Enter Patrick le Quément, the man heading design at Renault, who said: ‘The biggest risk of all is […]
Alinne Moraes, Laetitia Casta, Milla Jovovich, Kirsten Dunst on the Cannes red carpet
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Brazilian model and actress Alinne Moraes, along with her fellow L’Oréal Paris ambassadors Laetitia Casta and Milla Jovovich, were on the red carpet at the Festival de Cannes. We feature an interview below with Moraes, who discusses her love of cinema and the development of the Brazilian film industry. We have […]
At Cannes: Fan Bing Bing, Sonam Kapoor, Niels Schneider, and Tree of Life
Stéphane Kossmann/Renault/Getty Images Above Sonam Kapoor (in Jean Paul Gaultier) and Fan Bing Bing raise the glamour stakes at the Cannes Film Festival. Celebrities on the red carpet on Sunday included Sonam Kapoor, Vincent Perez, Olivia Ruiz, Michèle Laroque, Fan Bing Bing, Jacques Lang, Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin. Among our interviewees, brought to […]
Renault, Mercedes-Benz make pushes in film
Getty Images Above Melissa Theuriau and Mathilda May at Cannes, stepping out of Renault Vel Satises. Craig Blankenhorn Above Carrie and co. with the new Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse cabriolet and the Maybach limousines. Two car companies really pushed their marketing last week. Renault has had fairly good exposure for its poor-selling Vel Satis saloon as the […]
Renault boss Carlos Ghosn on strategic cooperation with Daimler
The boss of the Renault–Nissan alliance, Carlos Ghosn, talks in our two videos about why his company is entering into a strategic cooperation with Daimler AG. There are tough times within the car industry, forcing companies to look at ways of saving costs, especially in research and development, and realizing economies of scale. […]
Renault introduces swivel seat for Clio 3
Renault has shown, at least in digital form, its new front passenger swivel seat, to be installed in the revised Clio 3. We really like the Clio. Travel editor Stanley Moss test-drove one in France for Lucire many years ago, and publisher Jack Yan followed suit later in the year in New Zealand. […]
