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Originally Posted by Laird Scooby
I'd forgotten about the Renault 4, a cross between an overgrown Lego brick and hippo plop-plops on wheels! 
The Renault 5 wasn't much different except it was more Lego than hippo in shape and had a better marketing campaign. The early ones still had the push-pull gearstick mounted in the dash. |
I’d forgotten about that, the Renault 4 had an umbrella instead of a gear lever that disappeared into the dash and re-emerged as a bow that bent over the engine (the gearbox was at the front).
It was a typically dreadful French design that somehow worked okay (against all odds) and it drove sort of okay. I think the engine was something like 850cc, and so probably made about 25 HP, 65 MPH was about the top speed.
Life was simpler in those days.
Alan