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Re: The joy of Engine-Cars

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 08:54:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> One that did well here was the Renault 4.  More lean than a drunken
>> Irishman, but it still kept its tyres on the road.
>
> The French had lots of brilliant engineering, and pioneered concepts 
> decades before other car makers adopted them -- like front-wheel drive. 
> Renault invented both the hatchback and the people mover.
>
> I looked up the details of Renault 4 suspension after reading the above; 
> it didn’t have self-levelling suspension (it was the Citroën 2CV I was 
> thinking of), but it did have a clever system nonetheless.


I remember seeing a 2CV on display at the local mall when they first
came out in the US. They had the suspension set to keep changing the
height, so the car was going up and down, front and back, then both at
once, etc. Kind of interesting to see at first, but it evidently wasn't
interesting enough to most people to actually get them to buy one.

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