Exterior styling showed many unusual features, including slightly skirted rear wheel arches, chrome fixed doorhandles with squeeze-type actuators, and a decklid that wrapped over the tops of the rear fenders. At the front, the Medallion featured flush-mounted composite headlamps - a first for an American Motors vehicle - mounted on either side of a flush grille with 3 horizontal black bars and a prominent Renault diamond logo. Medallion DL sedans offered a different taillight lens pattern than uplevel LX sedans did, with smoked clear reflector lenses continuing inward from the Medallion's reversing lights, and surrounding the upper portion of the decklid-mounted rear license plate depression. LX sedans showed red lenses in this area instead. A power sunroof option on LX models was available later in the 1988 model year. Medallion wagons had a 5.9” longer wheelbase, and rear doors were much longer than those of their sedan counterpart, to improve optional 3rd seat ingress and egress. While unusual for its class in the North American market, the wagon's uniquely longer wheelbase (more than 2” longer than the larger Premier's) was in keeping with French station wagon tradition as shown on the Peugeot 504 and 505.