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    The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials

    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $39,500 For A 1984 Renault R5 Turbo?

    Smooth And Fast As A Bullet Train: The 1981 Renault Le Car

    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $5300.83 Renault Le Car?

    Drive Like An Egyptian In Your Renault 5!

    El Camino + Le Car = Le Carmino
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    Image of loquaciousmusic loquaciousmusic
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    Here's a "promo" video for the American GTA:


    Wait for the "full impact of the deck-lid spoiler." Just be careful: you might fall off your chair!


    STERLING METALLIC FTW!

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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    I know it's a combination of Renault and AMC products, but this little number from '85 is pretty exciting:


    God, I loved that Grand Wagoneer.

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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/22/09

    @loquaciousmusic: Good find :)
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    No R-10? This was my first car ever.



    It was a tank compared the Dauphine.

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    Image of Armand Armand
    02/22/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: I don't want to be rude, but that falls under the heading of "damnation by faint praise;" next to the Dauphine, a beer can is built like a tank.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    Anyone who does not first click on the 2002 Megane commercial is un-American. Er, I mean, well...
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/22/09

    @mechimike: This is the only Magane ad worth wathching...
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    layabout was starred layabout was unstarred
    Image of layabout layabout
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    How the hell can anyone not include this ad,in a Renault ad thread?


    I know Renault made mainly crap car,but the ad's were good...

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    02/22/09

    @layabout hunting Cerbera: Another classic just completely ignored...



    This is all without mentioning the "Papa,Nicole" series of ad's.
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    Who compiled this list ?
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    layabout was starred layabout was unstarred
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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    What the f**k! No R5 GT Turbo advert or Renault 5 "What's yours called" ad's,absolute philistine!
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    Renault Avantime


    And Renault Vel Satis.


    More mentalist cars which prefer fromage, wave the white flag all too easily and betray all the signs of primate origin.

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    02/22/09

    @Rust-MyEnemy: Shame it's an Avantime,the idea is good the reality is a nightmare. Slow,unreliable & depreciate like Woolworths. The engine was far better used in the Clio V6 mk2 (the mk1 was a pig to drive)
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    02/22/09

    @layabout hunting Cerbera: Yeah, yet more proof that a car doesn't have to be good to appeal to me. I mean, I still quite fancy an Orion 1600E.


    What?!!

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    02/22/09

    @Rust-MyEnemy: An Orion 1600E , the one with the leather interior? Now we're talking! Way better than the common Ghia.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    02/22/09

    @layabout hunting Cerbera: I think of it as an Orion XR3 and a half, but with leather.


    You could also argue that your car was built by Tickford!

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    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    The 21 advert was from '89 /'90.


    Also, there is a '91 21 1.7 lives two doors away from me. I would do a DOTS special if it weren't for the fact that it sucks major dick.

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    02/22/09

    @Rust-MyEnemy: James Bond in a Renault 11 was the best advertising they could get...
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    02/22/09

    @layabout hunting Cerbera: Yeah, I'd like to hear what the NCAP side-impact measuring people would have said to that!


    2nd favourite Bond movie, btw.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    This much mega could lead to widespread hospitalization. And I sit here totally defenseless: no beret, no Gauloise, no horizontally striped long sleeved T-shirt, not even a mime to shove into the line of fire.


    Must resist the urges: pain et chocolate at the boulangerie, camembert et burgundy, pentanque et Pernod, Tour de France, la belle Marie...


    Alright, I'm ready for my R5 turbo, the Alpine, the Bagheera, the R17 Gordini, maintenant monsieur.

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    Image of Armand Armand
    02/22/09

    @Van Sarockin: Join ze dark side, mon ami! One of my friends keeps finding old Peugeots that he thinks I should buy. I'd love to, but I know it would ruin me-- Old French cars are usually cheap to buy, but they can be expensive to run; besides the parts that have to get shipped from the Old Country, you have to factor in the cost of pack after pack of Gauloises and vin ordinaire (cheap red wine) by the case.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/22/09

    @Armand Bengle: Well, if your offer can equal or exceed a good condition 405 STi and off-brand Chateauneuf, we might have a deal. You might also have to spot me packs of Pall Mall straights. I'll need them to cushion my teeth when I'm spitting invectives.
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    02/22/09

    @Van Sarockin: Dude, my friend is getting a rust-free 403 wagon, and he found 2 rust-free 403 sedans and a pile of parts big enough to get them running in the same guy's yard. This seriously tempted me. Then, yesterday, he tells me he's found a running, driving, rust-free 404-- Do I want it?

    Do I want it?!? Is he kidding?
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/22/09

    @Armand Bengle: Almost enough lights. Mount the bogie wheels to the door handles and you're good to go.


    My F1 at Monaco sure has changed over the years! Must have been the year both Honda and Porsche had their factory teams, and took all the attention away from Volvo's entry.

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    Image of sos10 sos10
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    The 1999 MTV Clio clip"Get up ahh" is a classic. But my fav is 1961 Dauphine ad.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/22/09

    In reply to The Jalopnik Top 20 Classic Renault TV Commercials
    The going-around-corners scene from the '84 Encore ad brought back some amusing memories of Clarkson's Giant Panda.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/30/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $39,500 For A 1984 Renault R5 Turbo?
    Take $40k and go by yourself a fine, fine, mighty engine with little tweaks and accessories.

    Take the $6k and drop it on some interesting body.

    Voila!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/30/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $39,500 For A 1984 Renault R5 Turbo?
    Look, I'm sorry. It was worth that kind of money in 1984 because parts were actually available for it in 1984. This wouldn't be a Nice Price without a bumper-to-bumper warranty.


    Crack rock steady on.

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    Image of Armand Armand
    01/30/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $39,500 For A 1984 Renault R5 Turbo?
    This car makes me want to march around singing "La Marseillaise" at the top of my lungs while carrying the Lebel bolt-action rifle the French Army issued to my great-grandfather in World War I.

    Like the 8mm Lebel, the R5 Turbo has a few issues resulting from French engineers cutting corners to try and maintain parity with the Germans. The Lebel was never as nice as a Mauser, and if you tried to force a jammed Lebel bolt, it could force one cartridge against the next in the tubular magazine and turn the rifle into a grenade. The R5 Turbo, meanwhile, never had any chance of being as civilized on the road as a Porsche 911 Turbo or as fast on a rally stage as an Audi Quattro Sport. And somehow, I don't care. The R5 Turbo (and the Peugeot 205 T16) represents such a ridiculously French approach to building a rally car that I can't resist it. The whole thing smacks of Southern-fried hoonage, except "the South" in this case means Provence and the Riviera. If I had forty grand burning a hole in my pocket, I'd buy this car, paint a Tricolor on the roof and name it the General Foch.


    Prix bon!

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