Nobody really knows what this year's cars are going to look like, or how designers will have implemented the massive regulation overhaul for 2017. But if Renault's picture, teasing the invitation to its car launch is anything to go by, we may see the return of the ungracious and elongated baboon-looking front nose. Hope not...

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