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I used to see some on the streets, but no more. Anyone know why? No longer made or imported?
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Great little cars.
A couple of friends have had Renaults all their lives - R4, R8, R8 Gordini, R10, R12 (one of my favourites), R16, Megane.
Here's Ted in the Megane on a rally in Victoria.
Cheers,
John K
Bought new in 1970, my first new car. Gave it away in 1980, 128,000 miles later.. Drove it up and down the coast, back and forth to louisiana, and in 77 took my bride from LA to Houston. She still thinks of it as her first car.
One year into med school before we married. Houston had some things going for it. It wasnt very far from Austin and San Antonio and the hill country, and Galveston, amd well, wherever we could drive away from there.
It was fun, when it ran. Note to self, never buy cars from in laws.
-Rod
Buddy had the Fiat 124 wagon. Had the OHV engine, not the OHC.
LOTS of fun, and was named the 'roller skate'.
Too much is never enough
A mazda miata with Fiat skin. A Fiat that might run, but at a higher price than the miata.
;-)
(Societa Anomina) Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Le Car.
Edits: 11/19/15
Many years ago my friend bought a Le Car. His windshield wipers were stolen; this seemed to be weird until we stopped out at the dealership to buy some new ones. We were told that they were on back order and couldn't say when new ones would arrive. Of course they were some totally French design and nothing else would work. As we were leaving I noticed a lot of new, unsold Le Cars in a rear garage. We strolled in and grabbed a pair off of one.
It is that conglomerate that owns 44% of Nissan.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
PSA Peugeot Citroën have nothing to do with Renault-Nissan.
:-)
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Back in the 1960s. two rear-engined R8 models, one front-drive R16. Great cars, in our opinion, with quirks that were either endearing or maddening. They rode marvelously, for the time. The R8s were real fun in snow. We were sorry to see them go, but when the dealers went, so did we.
Had an R10. The service manager lent me his R16 to drive to school whenever I took my car in. I thought I was driving a luxury car in comparison. But I also loved my R10.
An absolutely amazing car. Liked it so much I even built a scale model of the R16 and then wrote an article about it for the Renault magazine. Only downside for us: a front-drive car without power steering.
just because it was a gas to drive in the twisties and looked so outrageous and made a cacophony which sounds like sex crazed banshees on Quaaludes.
A buddy had one...
Sounds OK.
Vid of ONLY in a straight line.
How is the HANDLING?
Next car up will be someone who LOVES the Citroen SM or ???
The HONDA 1liter superbike. Now THAT's a sound!
Too much is never enough
That car was a little monster.
Didn't have much to do with its alleged parent fwd R5 (Le Car) being mid-enginged and rwd.
Excellent handling as one would expect from a car that was build purely to win rallyes.
Road versions only exist because they had to build 400 of them to get homologation.
Eventually it couldn't compete with the fully-grown 4wd Group B monsters.
The Turbo 2 was the 2nd version, made more street-able and without some exotic materials. It was just about as fast as the first version (known as the Turbo 1 by some). And I drove it through the twisties on the back roads around the Coastal range, La Honda/Boulder Creek.Ben Lomond etc etc.
It was the first car I ever thought that acted as if it was on rails. It stayed glued.
Well it was built to beat the Lancia Stratos so it stuck to tarmac like a limpet.
AFAIK the first 400 were built by Alpine with cost no object high tech bits to get it race-legal.
Turned out to be such a capable sports car that they bowed to popular demand and built a slighltly more civilian version in main Renault factories.
Back then there was not a lot that could stick with it on the road, not even from Porsche or Ferrari for a lot more money. In rallyeing the 4wd Group B cars beat it on gravel and othe loose surfaces and unfortunately for Renault there were only two or three tarmac rallyes in any 14 odd race season.
We had a Renault Alliance 4-door sedan from 1983 to 1992. It was not a horrifically bad car (i.e. better than a Pinto or a Vega), and we drove it over 100k miles. But it was not a particularly good car either, and I had no inclination to buy another one. I believe that Chrysler stopped importing them some time in the late 1980s. I haven't seen one on the road in decades, and I suspect that a propensity to rust is the reason.
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
Renault is doing well, supplies a handful of F1 teams with engines and owns 44% of Nissan.
Tried in 1945 or 46 for war crimes, collaborating with the Nazis, building their military vehicles for them. In truth, he was scapegoated, France and Allies needing to show some vengeance and purging. Louis. claimed at his trial that he was given the choice of doing it or having his manufacturing plant moved to Germany and taken over by Daimler-Benz. Louis thought it best to survive and keep the work in country. Very few industrialists were brought to trial because they were needed to rebuild broken Europe, but Renault drew the short straw. He didn't survive to see his company continue.
Rumor has it, that Renault may not be making engines for many F1 teams, next year. Esp Red Bull... the biggest user of the its engine.
I believe McLaren (that used the 2015 Honda F1 engine) blocked Red Bull from using the Honda, for 2016.
F1 has the most politics of all auto racing.
8^(
I stopped following F1 after they castrated Hockenheim and dropped Spa-Francorchamps in '03 yet kept the eternally tedious races at Monaco and Hungaroring.
I switched to MotoGP and World Superbike and never looked back.
...at 13 years old in 1960, the Renault Dauphine was popular - its horn had two tones, one for city and one for country.
I think he bought it on impulse. Worst car he ever had - always in the repair shop with something going wrong or breaking down. We were all glad to see it go after a couple of years.
...to the VW beetle.
That Dauphine is so cute!
The Renault-Alpine A110 has a permanent place in my dream garage.
...from the rear.
That center headlight is a little weird.
A good friend in college had a Sunbeam Alpine.
One of the cars pictured has a big additional white covered light down low.
The Sunbeam Alpine was IIRC a British Rootes Corp. car. Later they stuck a Ford V* in it and called it the Sunbeam Tiger.
'Alpine' refers to the Alpine Rally. Lots of mfrs used it, to identify sportier cars - or cars which had won it.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
...there are 4 - it was the angle of the photo.
As George Carlin's Spanish priest said, in his Harlem story.
It's still only late spring but it will get to 94F at least today!
How's CA doing?
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Renault left the NA market in the 80's or 90's. Bad investment into AMC probably partly the cause. From what I see they might be trying to get back into the market this year.
My sister's first car was a brand new Fuego back in around 1982 or so. Wasn't a horrible car, but she knew my recommendation to rather buy a less loaded Honda would have been a better choice; her next car was a brand new Civic.
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