Thursday 19 May 2011

Renault are crackers

Don't understand Renault at the moment.  On one hand they are forward thinking and innovative.  They have given us the Espace, Reanultsport have enhanced the Twingo, Clio and Megane.  You have the incomparable Twizzy in the pipeline.  They have revived the fortunes of Dacia using Renault running gear on Dacia bodies. All well and good.

But then they go and make the Fluence.  Saw the first one the other day and it was a bog standard rental in beige, but you had to look twice to even notice it.

I have a feeling this is a car destined to go the same as any other large Renault in the UK.  Ignored neglected and will depreciate at a rapid rate of knots.  Renault 25 anyone, or Safrane, or Vel Satis.  For some reason the UK does not like big French cars, be that from Renault, Citroen with the C6 or Peugeot with the 607.  Not really sure why either.  The cars are good enough to traverse Europe but Brits don't like them.

Maybe someone should start a group for the French large unloved car club ?

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