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stephen.morrish
11/22/09

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Damn bouncy French suspension! You've not lived till you have driven a small old French car like you stole it... Amazing! bit like a British car but more bounce to it. Put you foot down, scream the nuts off it in every gear.

From 17 when I first started driving till I was around 21 I drove like that everywhere. Small care deserve to be punished they like it that way.

You can't do it with modern cars, They handle too well and are too fast. You would kill yourself! A Renault 5 on a dirt road at 30 is well out of control. A Cleo would be doing 60 to feel that out of control. At which point you hit a tree and your dead.
The 80's were better, the cars were worse and we were not going so fast but boy it felt fast!!!
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BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
11/22/09

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fantastique.
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Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse
11/22/09

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Starting at 1:13, it looks like the Renault guy took a detour off of skyhill and thru Davidsfarm.
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Edited by Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse at 11/22/09 7:07 PM

Six Flags Over Tomsk
11/22/09

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Boy, the French version of Knight Rider must have had a really tight budget if they couldn't even afford the strobe thingy, much less making the car talk.
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SundaySunday
11/22/09

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The developers of the videogame Driv3r must have been following this movie. Weren't similar cars to these 2 available for simulated hoonage in one of the levels? Rio, IIRC.
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
11/22/09

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I'm mystified by the tires screeching on gravel. Ok, so I'm not, but it still felt good pointing it out.
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tonyola
11/22/09

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I'm fighting the impulse to play the Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" soundtrack along with the clip. Also, points off for the CX driver for having his right turn signal light on when he's squealing to the left.
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stephdumas
11/22/09

@tonyola: Now then you mention it, I can't resist either to wish someone could edit this car chase clip to add the Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" theme ;-)
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Novaload
11/22/09

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All I get is "An error occurred. Please try again later."
That's pretty French right there.
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AustinMiniMan
11/22/09

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To think I took 3 years of Highschool French only to learn that "Le Car" only means "The Chicken."

Damn public education.
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egoods
11/22/09

@AustinMiniMan: I took 3 years of private school Spanish and all I learned was that a D is still passing.
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AustinMiniMan
11/22/09

@egoods: Ever learn how to roll a D?

#tips
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MushyHeirloom
11/22/09

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Did it say "LeJeep"? No, no it did not. Perhaps it should have.
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87CapriceEstate
11/22/09

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I had no idea that a Renault 5 would even come close to matching a Citroën.
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theirishscion
11/22/09

@87CapriceEstate: Well, having owned a succession of series 1 and series 2 Renault 5s, some fast, some slow, I can confirm that the Citroen in question almost certainly had the straight line advantage, but the damn R5s were remarkably competent around the corners, considering they had about a foot of suspension travel on all corners and just about no discernible ant-roll bars. Something about the suspension design and the very light little wheels made 'em amazingly sticky. The series 2 (which this example isn't) had nice quick positive gearboxes too. Most importantly though, they were superb off road. I got through deeper mud and gnarlier rocks in my old 5s than I ever managed in the succession of SUVs my ex wife liked to buy.

I do remember getting mired so deeply on one occasion that the shift linkage under the car got obstructed by the top layer of mud on the ground and my partner in crime and I had to get out, thereby letting it left a little, then one of us could reach in and put her in gear while the other kept his foot on the clutch from outside the car. Aaah, happy days.
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chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
11/22/09

@theirishscion: sweet. ant-roll bars... tiny but can handle more than 100% of their own weight in any direction. i need those

(i know it was a typo... but i couldn't resist... and hell.. it got your story promoted to the main page!)
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Jimmy-Pribble
11/22/09

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More car hoonage from the same movie, including V8olvo-style car crashing, etc.
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stephdumas
11/22/09

@Jimmy-Pribble: thanks for sharing :-)
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chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
11/22/09

@Jimmy-Pribble: not quite v8olvo style crash... but i get what you were thinking there... car spin-out...

let me assure you that the V8olvo woul have digested everything between the guy's knees and rib-cage... either through the grille or the hood scoop... he would not have walked away. (or lived... for that matter...
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chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
11/22/09

@stephdumas: i'm sorry... but your name still makes me laugh every time i see it. if that is your real name, i'm really sorry for laughing, and i hope that children weren't too mean to you growing up! (sincere!!(for a change...))
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
11/22/09

@Jimmy-Pribble: Ah ha ha!
Anybody that would hoon a sixties' Lancia Flavia is alright with me.

Also, at 1:56 one can clearly see the rear window of the pursuing Alfa GT Junior popping out upon landing. Poor beast.
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91Bw
11/22/09

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I can't be the only one saddened by the tire squeal sound effects on dirt ...
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wkiernan
11/22/09

@91Bw: Also in Jimmy-Pribble's clip (thanx Jimmy-Pribble!) when the commandeered GTV goes airborne and into s l o w - m o t i o n, the sound of the wildly-revving twin-cam doesn't go into slow-motion (that is, drop in pitch) at the same time. Either that or, being in flight with no wheel load, it revved up to 12,000 rpm or so.

Golly! Darn Yur-peens, always trying to pull the wool over a fella's eyes.
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chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
11/22/09

@wkiernan: /ralph wiggins

"mr. simpson, the fumes from the asphalt are making me dizzy"

--Yeah.... they'll do that....
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Jimmy-Pribble
11/22/09

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Is that Neil Diamond? WTF?

Edit: Then I was going to wisecrack about Lee J. Cobb, but that IS Lee J. Cobb! Anyway, it's a 1975 Italian film about...well, cops and robbers. Whatever.
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chrystlubitshi still güntered and dieseling
11/22/09

@Jimmy-Pribble: glad to see this clip comin' to america.
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stephdumas
11/22/09

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Cool car chase, from which movie it came?

Btw, I spotted another car chase movie, coming this time from Argentina with an Argentine Dodge GTX and a Toyota Celica late 1970s RWD model with cameos of a Fiat and a IKA-Renault Torino from a movie titled "Comandos Azules" [www.imcdb.org]
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
11/22/09

@stephdumas: Wow, combined with the hero's constant rubbernecking, the unmotivated explosion at the end was really the perfect finish.

I think I saw a IES 3CV, too...
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