Renault Altica

The Renault Altica is a concept car built by the French maker Renault and shown to the public at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show. Its body is a three-door, four-seat shooting-brake, a sporting estate shape that pairs a long roof with a coupe-like profile, and it is fitted with butterfly doors and a luggage space of 1,300 litres. The show car used a 2.0 litre diesel engine rated at 177 bhp, which the maker paired with an aerodynamic package to keep carbon dioxide output low for its class. The most unusual part of that package was the Synthetic Jet, a patented slot about 2 mm wide at the very rear of the roof through which air is alternately sucked and blown to control airflow separation, and which is claimed to cut the drag coefficient by about 15 percent at 80 mph. The Altica stayed a show car and is recorded here as a design study.