Oh papa! Have you seen the VERY modern Renault ad?

Nicole? Papa! … Two words that still conjure up images of a suave Frenchman, his daughter and a Renault Clio nipping through the countryside.

Now, 30 years after the popular series of car commercials first aired on British TV, they are making a comeback – but with a difference.

A real-life father and daughter, Nicole (yes, that really is her name) and David McNally, take the lead in a new advert that swaps the romanticism of rural France for residential London.

While the original Nicole (French actress Estelle Skornik) sported long flowing hair as she drove her Clio hatchback, new star Miss McNally, 21, was pictured with a short bleached blonde buzz cut and a large scorpion tattoo behind her left ear as she shot scenes with a black Renault Megane.

New star Nicole McNally, 21, was pictured with a short bleached blonde buzz cut

She also had a large scorpion tattoo behind her left ear as she shot scenes with a black Renault Megane

Pictures show her hugging her father and planting a kiss on his cheek

Pictures show her hugging her father and planting a kiss on his cheek. Miss McNally, who lives in Brighton, describes herself as a singer-songwriter online. Her Instagram account is littered with pictures of her with Angela Kerin, described as her ‘beautiful girlfriend’.

She previously featured on BBC singing competition All Together Now and more recently appeared in productions with the Institute For Contemporary Theatre in Brighton.

The original advert, shot in 1991, saw Nicole checking that her father is asleep in his garden chair, whispering ‘Papa?’ before sneaking off to drive into town in her Clio to meet a date.

Unknown to her, her father, played by Max Douchin, is awake and shoots off on his own romantic jaunt in his own Renault with a bunch of flowers. The duo’s secret adventures were charted over eight adverts, with the last airing in 1998.