Taxis are boring. Renault Mégane Trophy V6 taxis are not. And here one is, scaring the crap out of Parisians. Dios mio! That's French, right?

As far as I can tell after looking at Welsh design guru Ross Lovegrove's newest work, the Twin'z, Renult's future design is trippy. The electric supermini also looks a bit like a Fiat 500 from more than one angle, but the colors and the suicide doors certainly help.

The French asked a Welsh bloke to come up with their new design language. Ross Lovegrove is well known for his organic shapes, having collaborated before with such companies as Apple, Airbus, Sony or Peugeot. We can thank him for some of our early Walkmans.

Remember how Mercedes-Benz and Nissan-Renault have that partnership where they share engines and other technology? If these rumors are true, it may take root in a very interesting new car: a compact that will reportedly be called the X-Class.

Frenchman Frank Lecerf set off for the supermarket Saturday morning, like he does every Saturday morning. An hour later his car was in a ditch in Belgium after he led police on a wild 125 MPH chase. The reason? He claims his car accelerated on its own.

Renault will bring its newest car, the Captur, to the Geneva Motor Show in March. After Peugeot gave us a jacked up 208 called 2008, this is just what Europe needed.

Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely!

The French might be struggling a bit with getting their mojo back at the moment, but let's not forget that we would be nowhere without French cars. They not only invented the internal combustion engine (and then put it in a boat), but were also the pioneers of motor sports, and the creators of the Renault-Matra…

This Wednesday, Citroën will end the production of its executive saloon, the weird and wonderful C6. The 250 people working on that line will be transferred to other tasks, but it will also result in the Mulhouse factory stopping completely for two days this month. In the long run, PSA is planning to fire 11,200…