PlaneCrazy
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Actually the Renault 5 (Le Car to you guys), was a pretty indestructible and fun to drive little vehicle. It was the favourite of college students in Quebec and was their "VW Beetle" of the eighties. They even came standard with E-code headlights in Canada for a while. Their biggest weakness was the timing belt replacement; the engine was mounted backwards and the timing belt was at the cabin end, and had to be changed, I think, every 60k or so (forget if that's miles or km).
It was the only really decent car that Renault ever sold over here!
When they first came out, the base version was actually built on the R4 chassis and had an 850 cc engine with a stick-shift mounted in the dash. Most people bought the mainstream version with the 1289 cc engine.
I know I used to see a lot of them on the road long after they stopped selling them but you rarely see them now.
It was the only really decent car that Renault ever sold over here!
When they first came out, the base version was actually built on the R4 chassis and had an 850 cc engine with a stick-shift mounted in the dash. Most people bought the mainstream version with the 1289 cc engine.
I know I used to see a lot of them on the road long after they stopped selling them but you rarely see them now.