Start with what the Renault Wind is: a 2-door convertible with 1.2 L D4FT turbo I4, built from 2010 to 2013, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Yas Suzuki (exterior) / Johann Ory (interior).
The story
The Renault Wind is a convertible car manufactured and marketed by the French automobile company Renault from 2010 to 2013. It is a two-seater roadster with a front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. It was originally presented as a concept car at the 2004 Paris Motor Show as a 2+1 roadster.
On February 2, 2010, Renault announced that the Wind would enter production, presenting the production model at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The production version accommodates two passengers, as opposed to the 2+1 seating of the concept car. In February 2012, Renault retired the Wind along with the Espace, Kangoo Multix, Modus, and Laguna lines in the United Kingdom. For Mainland Europe, the Wind remained available through June 2013.
What is underneath
The engine is 1.2 L D4FT turbo I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1206 -. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2368 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Renault line-up the Renault Wind has a clear place: the factory was Novo Mesto (Renault Slovenia), Slovenia. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Nissan Leaf, the Lexus LFA. Nearby in the Renault catalogue sit the Renault 10 and the Renault 10CV.