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    1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    A French droptop with no style = crackpipe. At least make the effort to find a "nice" Fuego.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    I love it. I also enjoy Yugoslav/Serb director Emir Kusturica, so I'm going to go pick up Otac na sluzbenom putu right this instant.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    Crack Pipe. There's a reason that these are rare, even for 80s cars. The price has way too many zeroes.


    Oddly enough, there is one of these that I see sorta regularly in the summer, and it looks to be in decent shape. In a way I am jealous, yet I wouldn't wish most Renault products on my enemies.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    $4500 for a Renault Appliance?

    Get outta here.

    I call BS on the mpg, too. As the former owner of the cheapest p.o.s. R-10 that weighed nothing and had nothing resembling anti-pollution devices, at its best it got 35 mpg--though you also have to factor in the quart of oil per tankful of gas ratio, which eventually got to more oil than gas.

    Yeah, enjoy your summer of fun for $4500. After that, you're walking.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    If I wanted a crappy 1980s convertible with bland styling, FWD, a 4 cylinder, and highly questionable build quality for $4500, I'd get a LeBaron. At least you can find parts for those or if I wanted a little more style maybe a Town & Country.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    07/02/09

    @P161911 now with M POWER!: Golf (or were they called Rabbit back then?) FTW!
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    07/02/09

    @P161911 now with M POWER!: If I wanted a small, un-sporty, 2-door convertible AMC, I'd start with one of these...and probably be able to make it more reliable than an Alliance would ever be.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    07/02/09

    @Tanshanomi drives the Cadillac of Lincolns: This one's more my speed (and still a better car than the Annoyance):



    Hell, I think I'd even take this one over the Renault:


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    Image of JawzX2: Hoon The Earth @ www.cafepress.com/jawzx2 JawzX2: Hoon The Earth @ www.cafepress.com/jawzx2
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    I would spend that money on a Geo Metro convertible before I sepnt it on an Alliance, not that I'd ever spend that much on a Geo Metro, but if somone gave me $4500 and held a gun to my head with the choice being Alliance or Metro I'd chose the Metro. Crack.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    07/02/09

    @JawzX2: Now with 100% more employment!: With a Metro, you can at least roll into any Chevy dealership (well the ones still left anyway) and get it serviced. To get the Alliance serviced you have to go to, well, I don't know where one would go as some of the parts are probably not quite the same as on a Renault 9, so even France is out...

    Even in running condition, this car is more PCH than NPOCP.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    37 MPG City?! Maybe, if the city is San Francisco and you have it towed to the tops of the hills. It may be theoretically possible to duplicate that number, but I suspect it involves never putting the long pedal more than 1/10 of the way to the floor, which is a good way to learn new words and hand gestures from the nice folks behind you as they pass you any way they can manage.
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    Image of jaymcminn jaymcminn
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    I bet it has all the structural integrity of warm brie. If you put the top down the doors probably open on their own.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    07/02/09

    @jaymcminn: Failing that, opening the doors probably makes it fold in half.
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    Image of Alf, in pog form Alf, in pog form
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    Grande pipe de fente .
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    07/02/09

    @Alf, in pog form: LOL! FYI, the French for crack is, well, crack! FOr some reason the Academie Francaise has not yet gotten around to invent a word for it, like they did with hamburger...


    / now I want a "pain viande"

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    Image of subsammy subsammy
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    Cars like this are the reason I never trust the MT Car of the Year award or the C&D top 10. I had the displeasure of working on one of these once. I had to break up with the girl because of it.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/02/09

    @subsammy: A heart click for dumping a chick due to her automotive choice.


    Luckily, my wife loves her Escape. Its the 3rd one she's had. Not a bad little SUV-like vehicle. Plus, she leases so I don't have to worry about changing that starter...ever.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    I'm torn. My love of French cars is tempered by an asking price that seems at least $3000 too high. What do I do?


    I'll wait. Maybe some day we'll find a Renault 5 Turbo for $4500. Or a Le Car for $2. Those would be nice prices.


    So, I'm going to have to say Crack Pipe without prejudice and allow for some reconsideration at a later date.

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    07/02/09

    @engineerd wishes Deartháir a happy birthday.: Not only is it a French car, it's also an AMC! It should be double the weirdness! It should have preposterously complex engineering that was done on the budget of what change Fred in accounting found in his back seat. Sadly, it's a little too normal, and yet I'm still a little charmed.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    07/02/09

    @Maymar is (insert recent meme here): Ahem. This piece of excrément is NOT an AMC. Granted it was built in the Kenosha AMC plant by AMC employees, but it is unquestionably a Renault from the word go to its dying wheeze. This car did more damage to AMC's reputation than the Pacer and six-cylinder Spirit-based AMX combined. Please do not further the insult by implying that AMC had any more to do with this turd than simply assembling it.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    /Both are deeds for which neither magazine has yet to officially apologize. /


    There's something awry there..

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    07/02/09

    @beercheck: Car and Driver actually apologized for themselves and Motor Trend.
    [www.caranddriver.com]
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/02/09

    @Maymar is (insert recent meme here): Excellent observation/recall. So the sentence is now half right, at least.
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    Image of Jim Hubert Jim Hubert
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    :shudders:


    GR, where do you find these things? The Renault Alliance is the only self-recycling car ever constructed...guaranteed to reduce itself to simple iron oxide faster than grass grows in a cow pie.


    In addition, the engine was built by Renault, the same 1700cc boat anchor Renault briefly palmed off on Chrysler, for the K cars, before Chrysler realized that French cc's were pitifully undersized, in comparison to the rest of the world. This sled has a 0-60 time over 10 seconds, which is spirited only in comparison to it's 1400cc stepsister, which was closer to 14 seconds. In comparison, a Honda Insight runs pretty nearly the same time.


    Also, it's worth noting that the car pictured is currently wearing a color AMC never offered, which indicates a paint job, the reason for which is explained above.


    For 4500 bucks you can buy a decent Jaguar cabriolet, with an actual functioning engine, and metal parts with a shelf life measurable in years, not minths.


    It's cute. So are soap bubbles floating in the air, after sucking on a...crack pipe. Pass the hash oil.

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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    07/02/09

    @Jim Hubert: Actually, the 1.7 was used in the Omni/Horizon for awhile until Chrysler figured out how to shoehorn their new 2.2 K-car motor in there. I had the Omni with the 2.2. Decent pickup, but power steering and better brakes definitely would have helped this car because the 2.2 added about as much weight as it did horsepower.


    But $4500 for a Renault 9 convertible? I rode in one once, and I can tell you it's a piece of tin. I bet you could dent the hood in by looking at it wrong. The bleu doesn't even look good on a convertible. Pass le Pipe!

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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    07/02/09

    @Jim Hubert: That engine Chrysler used was from Volkswagen, not Renault.
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    Image of armyofchuckness armyofchuckness
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    As they say in France...


    No.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/02/09

    @armyofchuckness: Non.

    Franzouse, back me up on this.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/02/09

    In reply to 1985 Renault Alliance Convertible For A Cheddarific $4,500!
    Nice Price, even though I know something is terribly (and probably death-inducing) wrong. Maybe the pic is from 85.
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