I'm surprised that they caught up to him on horseback.

In Area 50.

What a fabulous read.

Mix up knives?

I just saw on of these recently. Amazing, looks awesome, and it’s bigger than it seems on the pictures.

A name inherited from the Sunbeam Alpine, I believe.

Frenchman here too, I’m in on the joke! An R9 as a track car... Next week, enjoy our Dakar-ready Ami 6!

As a French, I just bursted out laughing seeing a badly modified Renault 9 on Jalopnik.

I was just coming back to enlighten the Colonials on this point! Well done…

My dad (and therefore we) had one of those in his long line of shitty company cars in the 1980s. It was shitty, but as a kid I thought the dash/steering wheel were really cool. Actually it still looks decent from a styling POV.

My father used to own a Renault 11 Turbo. Really a nice car, was like a go kart on dry roads, but as soon as you would find wet pavement, it couldn’t handle for the life of it. Back then it was also the de facto recce car they would use for rallies.

Proletariat, eh...When we lived in Yugoslavia back in Tito’s 80’s, my best friend’s dad had the Renault described in your article and my dad drove this one:

I’ve posted this before, but I’m going to do it again. This should be the most important diagram that any rally spectator should be looking at. But unfortunately, a lot of people are happy to throw all caution out the window.

My Grandfather worked for Volkswagen from the 50s till the 90s and I’ve got a full room of old Volkswagen stuff, mostly the internal booklets, where the layout was glued together and some other unfinished, maybe never published stuff. When I find the time, I will search for more about this car here. But in the short…

Hey Torch,

Fa(h)rtWind. I love this name. Yeah, I realize it is German and a name for a motorcycle track, but still-I am a 12 year old deep down inside.

I just tried that, and the door opened.