Renault quickly replaced some top AMC executives with their own people.

Under pressure from Renault executives following Besse's death, Renault's new president, Raymond Levy set out to repair employee relations and divest the company of its investment in American Motors.

The Chrysler minivans launched a few months ahead of the Renault Espace ( the first MPV / minivan in Europe, initially presented to executives as a Talbot in 1979, but not launched until 1984 ), making them the first of their kind – effectively creating the modern minivan segment in the US.

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While some Renault executives and labor leaders perceived AMC as a bottomless pit, Besse championed the future in the North American market just as Jeep four wheel drives were riding an unprecedented surge in demand.

Renault bankrolled the small volume sports-car maker Alpine to transform their little A110 Berlinette coupé into a world-beating rally car, and hired a skilled team of drivers too ; then in 1974 came the Lancia Stratos, the first car designed from scratch to win rallies, and the dominant asphalt rally car of its time.

Flavio Briatore's future as QPR chairman came under question in September 2009 after he left the Renault F1 team in the midst of race fixing allegations.

Ironically the sale came at a time when the automotive press was enthusiastic about the proposed 1988 lineup of Renault and Jeep vehicles, and reports that the financial outlook for the tiny automaker were improving.

The factory work came to fruition with the Renault strike of 1947, which Korner's group helped lead and organize.

This technology came from the PSA Peugeot-Citroën / Renault / French government ECO 2000 project.

The ' one box ' supermini eventually came to market with the early ' 90s Renault Twingo.

Power came from the Renault E-type (" Energy ") engine in 1. 4 L, 1. 6 L, 1. 8 L, and the F-type unit in both 1. 9 L diesel and 2. 0 L petrol form, although this time around there was a wider variety of 16-valve derivatives.

The American-market Renault 12 came in three trim lines: 12, 12 L, and 12 TL, ranging in price from an inexpensive US $ 2975 to US $ 3448.

In Colombia, this car was assembled at the plant of Renault SOFASA between 1973 to 1981, from CKDs that came from Argentina and France.

The powerplant of the 4CV was larger than that specified by management for the new model, but Renault addressed this by reducing the bore so that the overall capacity of the power plant destined for the new R3 came in at 603 cc, comfortably at the lower end of the required 600 – 700 cc range.

The original Renault R4 ’ s engine capacity of 747 cc served to differentiate the model from the more powerful Renault Dauphine, but the Dauphine ’ s 845 cc engine was used in the 4 itself from 1963 onwards: for most markets at this stage the Dauphine engine now came as standard in the top of the range Renault R4 Super, and was available in some other versions only as an optional extra.

Support for the project came from Jean Schwab who was the local Renault dealer at Garches and who sold the cars.

However, along with Jeep came the new Eagle brand of cars, which were a mix of models designed and produced by Renault and Mitsubishi Motors.

This came only two years after the Avantime coupé / MPV, which was equally ambitious in its design, was discontinued by Renault.

As a large part of the Tyrrell budget was provided by Ford, and another significant element came from French state-owned petroleum company Elf, which had an agreement with Renault that precluded supporting a Simca partner, Ken Tyrrell had little alternative ( due to clashing sponsorship deals ) but to buy March 701 chassis as interim solution while developing his own car in secret ; the first Tyrrell bore much resemblance to the MS80.

Ligier also had preferential treatment when it came to engines, political pressure being applied to Renault to force the company to supply the team, which used Renault engines from 1984 to 1986 and from 1992 to 1994.

However, when in 1965 Renault's Spanish affiliate introduced their own version of the Renault 8 for the ( then tariff-shielded ) Spanish market, it came with drum brakes.

The 1, 108 cc engine, which for some markets had already appeared in top of the range versions of the Renault 8, came from the Renault Caravelle.

On lap 39, just before the halfway point, Villeneuve came up to lap Clay Regazzoni, who was in a battle with Jean-Pierre Jabouille's Renault.

After a short run with Renault at the end of 2004, Villeneuve moved to the Sauber team for the 2005 season where he was outscored by his less experienced teammate Felipe Massa.

* The Paris-Vienna Trail is run on 26 – 29 June over 990 km and won by Marcel Renault ( France ) driving a Renault in a time of 15: 47: 43.

Lochgilphead's facilities include a swimming pool, sports centre, fishing tackle shop, three banks, supermarket, Renault dealership, a community hospital run by the local GPs, psychiatric hospital, 9-hole golf course, a hydrotherapy pool, a regional landfill site at Dunchologan and Lochgilphead High School.

Whilst Ryton was saved, PSA took little interest in the heavy commercial vehicles and the former Commer / Dodge / Karrier truck and van factory was run in conjunction with the trucks division of Renault.

After Peugeot purchased Chrysler Europe in 1978, the Commer factory was run in partnership with the truck division of Renault, Renault Trucks.

It was originally equipped with the water-cooled overhead-valve " Cléon " engine picked directly from the Renault 12, albeit with a slightly lower compression ratio of 8: 1 to allow it to run on 70 octane gasoline.

To get around a FISA rule that a team and driver can not run more than 2 engines in the one chassis during a season ( with the 012 running the Cosworth and 014 the Renault ), Tyrrell simply switched the drivers from one car to the other but not their car numbers meaning Bellof drove in car # 3 and Brundle in car # 4.

Senna was out on his third run with only minutes left before the end of qualifying in his Lotus 97T, powered by a special qualifying Renault engine rumored to be putting out some, and stunned everyone with a time of 1: 19. 843, 7 / 10ths faster than Mansell to grab his 7th pole position of the season.

1979 saw Renault expand to run a second car for René Arnoux.

From there, Larrousse went on to run the original factory Renault Formula One team during its final days as a full fledged factory team in 1984 and 1985.

Piquet was easily the fastest man on the circuit, using Goodyear tires, but Championship leader René Arnoux grabbed second place in his Renault with an early run on soft Michelins.

As the three cars approached the hairpin, Giacomelli made a run down the inside of Lauda, locked up his brakes and slid into the back of Arnoux's Renault.

Called " the ultimate rock star of the industry ," he has been recruited to run at least two other automakers, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. His decision to spend € 4 billion so Renault and Nissan could jointly develop the world's first lineup of electric cars, starting with the Nissan Leaf, is a subject of the 2011 documentary Revenge of the Electric Car.

When he assumed the CEO roles at both Renault and Nissan, Ghosn became the world's first person to run two companies on the Fortune Global 500 simultaneously.

Renault was hesitant to introduce such expensive improvements in the production run ; but in February 1934 the head of the French Cavalry, General Flavigny, insisted on these changes being made.

On 27 October 1937 the Renault factory estimated that all ten ZT 2s could be produced simultaneous to the second order production run and on 14 January 1938 it was thought that ZT 2 production could be ended in June 1938.

The project was accordingly originally called the ZT avec boîte à l ' avant (" ZT with front gear box ") but later received the Renault designation ADF 1, again a meaningless code: Renault had run out of two letter codes.

In the mean time, Renault and BMW responded by introducing their own limited edition road cars – to enable them to run with oversized aerodynamic aids.

Renault later attempted to enhance the car's appeal by relaunching it with improved equipment levels and a minor facelift, but the damage was done and the production run ended in 1983 with precisely 993, 193 units sold over a period of just under seven years.

It was also the last race in which the famous Lotus team would carry the distinctive Black and Gold sponsorship colours of John Player Special, or run the Renault turbo engine, the French manufacturer not supplying their turbocharged engines for F1 after the season.