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Renault wants that sweet, sweet Chinese market, and it wants it bad. So the French company has hit Auto Shanghai with a cute little electric city car styled to charm the Asian market and ready to go on sale by the end of 2019.

The 2019 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance continued to grow in stature this year, but it was the symbiotic cluster of elite auctions that threw up the most interesting results. The collector car market is undergoing generational change, attracting a younger clientele driving prices below $500,000.

Renault has unveiled a special edition Alaskan pickup truck at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland. The Alaskan Ice Edition will be a limited offering of the pickup coming later this year. Custom features and two-tone paint mark it apart from other Renault Alaskan models.

The sports concepts and cars are a part of the Paris Motor Show story, perhaps even the best part. But it's 2018, which means an even bigger part of that story reads electric vehicles, SUVs and crossovers, classic cars and autonomous concepts.

Driving luxury has long been defined by the chauffeur - being driven, whether in a limousine, black sedan or armored ultra-premium SUV. But how will driving luxury be defined when autonomous vehicles drive everyone? Renault explores this question with the all-new EZ-Ultimo concept.

Renault says that future urban mobility will be electric, connected, autonomous and shared. The EZ-Pro autonomous electric pod concept is all of those things, and sees a manned package carrier at the front of a convoy of driverless, modular pods satisfying the delivery needs of online customers.

Renault is apparently big in Russia, owning almost a third of the market through its main brand and majority ownership of Lada. And apparently, Russians want to see more cars with the ground clearance and 4-wheel-drive capability of an SUV, but the body of a sedan.

Interested in self-driving systems, but don't want to make your own R&D car? This British startup is selling kitted-out Renault Twizy cars with full drive-by-wire capabilities, plus cameras, sensors and an open-source software platform for autonomous car research. We spoke to founder Mark Preston.

​This Tuesday at the Geneva Auto Show, Renault unveiled its electric, autonomous EZ-GO robo-vehicle and ride-hailing concept. It could provide both taxi and Uber drivers with some serious competition in the not-too-distant future.

Rétromobile has been running since 1976, when the most expensive car in the world cost less than $100,000 and long before the term retro had become fashionable. It is one of those places where auctions truly can throw up some remarkable objets d'automotive art. This year it did not disappoint.

The 33rd Festival Automobile International awarded The Most Beautiful Car, Supercar, Concept Car​, Futuristic City Car, and automotive advertising of 2017, while Land Rover's Gerry McGovern​ won Le Grand Prix Du Design​.

The Symbioz was Renault's hero show car at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show and it went one brave step further in that it was proposed together with a house as a complete system.​ Sadly, the premise behind the concept is seriously flawed.