Do you think that renault could get back into the american market with a new caravelle?
They could make a 4 cylinder 1.3 litre engine by copying the head of their f1 engine. they did win the world constructors championship, they should be selling a car that has some similarity to their race car.
they mount this transversly, ahead of the rear wheels to improve handling. then they use a zf transaxle and bosch fuel injection and ignition to improve reliability.
with their reputation they cannot
sell it with the renault name here, but it could be sold in lincoln mercury dealers as a seperate marque, like they did with the pantera.
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The caravelle ragtop was the only car that renault made that america had any use for,so thats a good idea. renault has become synonymous with unreliability and their new cars look worse than the weirdest looking cars the other companies make. they should have the whole body done by bertone, and sold as a bertone like bertone did when they sold the fiat 1/9 in the us as their own car after fiat quit the us. if they could sell a car with titanium valves and rods and pneumatic valves at a reasonable price that would be so cool, if it could rev to way over 10,000 rpm and had an exaust cut out so it could scream as it raced through the streets.