Word: renault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeer. Three times the Catenacciu fell under his burden, and each time a fellow penitent playing the part of Simon of Cyrene whispered fiercely: "Get up! You asked for this!" At last it was all over, and as The Enchained One was whisked away in Father Scuitti's Renault, candles were lit in every Sartene window...
...bare, spare autos of postwar Europe, which sparked the American revolution in favor of the compact car, are growing big for their boots, as the British might say. Citroën and Renault, Fiat and Hillman, BMW and the Japanese Datsun are adding new inches, new horsepower, and new luxury of interior appointment and exterior trim. Even the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL is tarted up with the same kind of speed-line chrome trim that is the one jarring note on the beautiful, continental-style new Buick Riviera...
...Standard's goal in the U.S. is to overtake second-place Renault, whose U.S. sales last year slipped from 44,000 to about 34,000. This week the car that Standard-Triumph is betting on to do the trick will make its U.S. debut at the Miami auto show. It is the Spitfire, a racy two-seater sports car which is a little brother of the TR-4, last year's bestselling imported sports car in the U.S. Priced at $2,199 in the Eastern U.S., the Spitfire has roll-up windows, road-clinging independent four-wheel suspension...
...G.N.P. has been growing in recent years at a steady 5.5% (v. 2.5% in the U.S.); exports take a fat 16% of France's production. Gold and dollar reserves have almost trebled in four years (to $3.6 billion). Some of France's most efficient industries, from the Renault auto firm to railroads that run on time, are owned or controlled by the state, which under De Gaulle in 1945 nationalized much of France's productive capacity...
Visitors to the Paris show seemed to like what they saw. Chic Parisian housewives wiggled into the Renault's R-8 (the trade-up from the Dauphine) and squealed with delight at built-in vanity mirrors and soft new spongy seats. Men rocked the Morris 1100-an upgraded Mini Minor-to test its revolutionary liquid suspension system. Other members of the new line...