Word: renault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line that now runs from sports cars to 200-ton earthmovers. Standard-Triumph lost Leyland $3,000,000 last year, but Leyland has now turned the company into a moneymaker. Helping out is the success of Triumph's TR4 and Spitfire in the U.S., where Triumph has overtaken Renault as the second bestselling auto import, after Volkswagen. With Triumph healthy and truck exports soaring, Leyland's 1963 figures should easily top last year's net earnings of $8,900,000 on $504 million in sales...
...63rd birthday last week, has just installed a revolutionary innovation on its high-traffic Vincennes-Neuilly line: cars that run along the tracks on pneumatic tires. The result of ten years of experiments commissioned by the Métro, the new system was developed jointly by tiremaker Michelin, automaker Renault and the Compagnie Electro-Mécanique. Eventually it will be used along the entire 160-mile length...
...that the company last week stretched out the waiting time for delivery of some of its models from two to three months. Says one Citroen executive: "Other carmakers have customers, but we have fanatics." Menacing Dogs. The fanatics have made Citroen France's second biggest automaker (after nationalized Renault), with expected sales this year of some 450,000 vehicles worth more than $600 million. They have been attracted by what makes Citroen what it is: a devotion to research and engineering that has endowed its peculiar-looking cars with countless ingenious features. Its research department is the absolute...
...Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building a new mosque over Mohammed's tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded Simca in 1934 and ruled it with an iron hand until Chrysler bought control of it this year. The former president of state-owned Sud Aviation...
...ordinary Frenchman trying to squeeze into the tiny French intellectual elite is like Charles de Gaulle trying to squeeze into the back seat of a baby Renault. Yet room at the top is always open for top graduates of Louis-le-grand, France's most prestigious lycée, or state-run academic high school. Across the street from the Sorbonne in Paris, Louis-le-grand has an ancient passion to create "an elite of the elite" and a modern penchant for vaulting brainy boys into the grandes écoles, the supra-universities whose graduates virtually run France. This...