When your favorite child has a birthday, it's easy to overdo it with the presents. Renault not only dedicated a special exhibition at the Atelier Renault on the Champs Élysées and a special series of electrified new bodies to the R4 for its sixtieth birthday, but also a helicopter.
You read that right: the Renault AIR4 is an electrically powered quadcopter that can fly up to 700 meters high and over 90 km/h fast. Before originality lovers get the big ventricular fibrillation: no old Renault 4 was sacrificed for the AIR4. The body is merely modeled on the shape of the R4, but is made entirely of carbon fiber. To get in, it is folded up in one piece like a Funny Car. The pilot sits on a kind of garden chair in the middle of the car.
The four twin propellers at the corners are powered by lithium-polymer batteries with a nominal capacity of 90,000 mAh. Renault remains silent about the range. But it should be enough for the daily commute to work - especially as you can simply fly over the rush hour traffic. But how many companies have helipads for their employees? It will probably take another 60 years before this concept (which, according to Global Marketing Director Arnaud Belloni, is not entirely serious anyway) actually catches on.
