Word: gordinier
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...standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...
...Renault's boxy, $2,760 R-8 Gordini, which also has a smaller engine (103 h.p.) than a Volkswagen, lives up to its flashy racing headlights by being able to hit 109 m.p.h...
Renault is also getting over the blow. It has taken back most of the 3,000 workers laid off when the slump began, has its output back to normal. To spur U.S. sales, it put on sale the Gordini, a more powerful version of the Dauphine. Renault and the other foreign car makers think that the slump that hit them last year has bottomed...
Rose-Colored Mules. At 2 o'clock one morning, as Bill's black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide...
France's precocious Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan, 21, owner of a Jaguar, a Buick, a Gordini racer and an Aston-Martin, is a madcap hot-rodder who once exulted: "I like to drive 200 kilometers an hour [125 m.p.h.] barefooted!" Last week she was expected to survive after her Aston-Martin, tooling along an unobstructed highway south of Paris on a clear day, left the road and somersaulted in a field...