Renault Espace V6 ‘Olympique 92’ Albertville Edition
For the 1992 Winter Olympics, staged in and around the French Alpine resort of Albertville, local (and then State-owned) vehicle producer Renault lent 1,500 cars to the Olympic Organisation Committee and used its involvement to launch a range of limited edition ‘Olympique 92’ models to mark the occasion, all painted glacier white and equipped with bespoke Olympic badges.
Each special Olympique model also featured the official Albertville 92 logo and white wheels, these being either hubcaps or alloy wheels, depending on the car in question.
This extensive limited edition range included a Clio Olympic 92 (the most prolific model with around 1,100 examples built), plus a 19, 21, 25, Espace (mostly V6s), Jeep Cherokee (the American 4x4 brand then being distributed by Renault in France due to its former AMC connections), plus the real star of the show, the Alpine A610, with just two examples of this desirable rear-engined V6 sportscar being built in Olympique form, these even being joined by special all-white Traffic van and Renault coach models!