Today, the range of vehicle types available in the C-segment is diverse, with not just hatchbacks and saloons but SUVs and MPVs too. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the variety was much more limited, and it was into this environment that Renault introduced the Scenic. "You have to understand that the automotive landscape in the C-segment at that time was very classical -so very boring," explains Benoit Bochard, a deputy chief product planner at the time of the original vehicle. "You had Astras and Escorts which were successful, but they weren't exactly very sexy, and if you had a young family you had to choose between cars like these. But something that was very visible in our research was that people aspired to have a large MPV like the Espace or the ChryslerVoyager Pontiac.
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