Renault and its qwirkyness always produced some iconic cars until some years ago. Honestly, I think from the nineties on, Renault is just a corporation trying to flog cheap, nasty plastic unreliable vehicles at the higher price they possibly can.
Whoever owned a megane knows what I am talking about...I would never ever risk buying a modern Renault. I love the 4,5,6,8,10,12 ,estaffette van, and even the 9 and the 11, but from the Clio onwards ( who they "proudly" announced at the time that had some less screws and fixings than the R5), you can keep all that cr*p. This goes for any other french car.
The Renault 4 was the first car that put Renault in the limelight, and started to seel in decent numbers. Renault owes the R4 something like a " retro" inspired model.
The Renault 4 is an extremely difficult to work and sparcely equipped car, which opens the door via a hole in the door and secures the header tank with a piece of inner tube. Which you can hose the inside, as I often do. That drives like a 2cv and selects gears from a walking stick protruding from the dash.But this simplicity and feeling always made us forgive and worship the Renault 4.
But we all know that if Renault started to produce a "new" retro inspired "4", it would have the size of a megane, and the doors would be clogged with every switch and eletrics you can think of.Would look as ridiculous as the "new Fiat 500", that has a roof of the same size of the old one, but the base of a Ducato van! Or like the "New Beetle" with a Diesel front engine. It would have air conditioning, and maybe as a freebee, to resemble remotely like the "four" would have a stilish rectangular grille and...er...that would be it! Worse still, it would be bought by school mums and Real estate agents.
"New" Renault 4? No, thanks...Ill keep mine.
Whoever owned a megane knows what I am talking about...I would never ever risk buying a modern Renault. I love the 4,5,6,8,10,12 ,estaffette van, and even the 9 and the 11, but from the Clio onwards ( who they "proudly" announced at the time that had some less screws and fixings than the R5), you can keep all that cr*p. This goes for any other french car.
The Renault 4 was the first car that put Renault in the limelight, and started to seel in decent numbers. Renault owes the R4 something like a " retro" inspired model.
The Renault 4 is an extremely difficult to work and sparcely equipped car, which opens the door via a hole in the door and secures the header tank with a piece of inner tube. Which you can hose the inside, as I often do. That drives like a 2cv and selects gears from a walking stick protruding from the dash.But this simplicity and feeling always made us forgive and worship the Renault 4.
But we all know that if Renault started to produce a "new" retro inspired "4", it would have the size of a megane, and the doors would be clogged with every switch and eletrics you can think of.Would look as ridiculous as the "new Fiat 500", that has a roof of the same size of the old one, but the base of a Ducato van! Or like the "New Beetle" with a Diesel front engine. It would have air conditioning, and maybe as a freebee, to resemble remotely like the "four" would have a stilish rectangular grille and...er...that would be it! Worse still, it would be bought by school mums and Real estate agents.
"New" Renault 4? No, thanks...Ill keep mine.