International Formula 3000 was experiencing tough competition with cheaper formulae, such as European F3000 ( using ex-FIA 1999 and 2002 Lola chassis ), World Series by Nissan ( also known as Formula Nissan ) and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.

In 2005 it was replaced with a new series known as GP2, with Renault backing.

Using Renault engines, a top speed of 87 km / h ( 54 mph ) was achieved, accelerating rapidly, taking waves without difficulty, steering well and showing good stability.

However, by 1987, the automobile markets had changed and even Renault itself was experiencing financial troubles.

By 1212 John had successfully concluded alliances with Renault of Dammartin, who controlled Boulogne, and Count Ferdinand of Flanders, as well as Otto IV, a contender for the crown of Holy Roman Emperor in Germany ; Otto was also John's nephew.

In 1996, the Renault Scénic was released in Europe and its success made mainstream automakers produce them in large quantities, usually based on small family car platforms and with both two and three-row seats.

The DKW Schnellaster, manufactured from 1949 to 1962 was a small monospace ( or one-box ) design featuring its front wheels set forward of the passenger cabin, a short, sloping aerodynamic hood, front-wheel drive, transverse engine, flat load floor throughout with flexible seating and cargo accommodations – the key design ingredients that describe the modern minivan configuration popularized in such notable examples as the Renault Espace and Chrysler Voyager / Caravan minivans.

Matra took their idea to Peugeot who thought it too expensive and risky so the project was then presented to Renault, becoming the Renault Espace introduced in 1984.

In the competition for Škoda, Volkswagen was pitted against French car-maker Renault, which lost because its strategic plan did not include producing high-value models in the Czech factories: Renault proposed to manufacture the Renault Twingo city car in the Škoda factories.

The main letdown was the engine: by the late 1950s many small cars in western countries already used cleaner and more efficient four-stroke engines, as employed in the Renault, whereas budgetary constraints forced the use of a two-stroke engine in the Trabant.

On 2 January 2001, Renault Véhicules Industriels ( which included Mack Trucks, but not Renault's stake in Irisbus ) was sold to Volvo, which renamed it Renault Trucks in 2002.

He finished in the points on his Formula One début in Argentina and took his first race victory at his home Grand Prix in France a year later, while he was driving for the factory Renault team.

In 1995, when Prost was working for Renault, people began to assume that a Prost-Renault team would be formed in the near future.

However, probably the most important work on polynomial curves and sculptured surface was done by Pierre Bézier ( Renault ), Paul de Casteljau ( Citroen ), Steven Anson Coons ( MIT, Ford ), James Ferguson ( Boeing ), Carl de Boor ( GM ), Birkhoff ( GM ) and Garibedian ( GM ) in the 1960s and W. Gordon ( GM ) and R. Riesenfeld in the 1970s.

However, 1988 saw Williams struggling with an uncompetitive car powered by non-turbocharged Judd engines and it was not until the following year and the arrival of Renault engines that Patrese and his team-mate Thierry Boutsen were able to challenge for race points.

The team was bought by Renault for US $ 120m in and was rebranded Renault F1 in 2002.

Bonnet founded Automobiles René Bonnet, producing cars powered by Renault engines: this business was later to become part of Matra Automobiles.

This allowed cars to be much further removed from production models, and so was created a generation of rallying supercars, of which the most radical and impressive were the Peugeot 205 T16, Renault 5 Turbo and the Lancia Delta S4, with flimsy fibreglass bodies roughly the shape of the standard car tacked on to lightweight spaceframe chassis, four-wheel drive, and power outputs reportedly as high as.

From 1962 to 1967, Renault assembled complete knock down ( CKD ) kits of the Rambler Classic sedans in its factory in Belgium.

In 1723, Renault, with his workers and slaves, established the village St. Philippe ( on the Bottoms down from the present-day unincorporated community of Renault, Illinois in Monroe County, Illinois.

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.

Ryan's first season in Formula Renault was in the UK, with the John Village Automotive team, he managed to finish 6th in the championship, despite racing a few rounds with a car with a damaged tub ( a fault that took the team a few races to track down ), which dropped him down the championship.

Top speeds in the National Class are easily as high as in the other Junior Formulae of BMW and Renault, but cornering speeds tend to be lower as Formula Ford cars lack the downforce-producing aerodynamic aids on the other cars ; handling is therefore entirely down to mechanical grip, and the lack of wings ensures that cars following another are not aerodynamically disadvantaged, allowing some of the closest racing with plenty of overtaking.

When the R3 was withdrawn in October 1962 Renault also withdrew the very basic stripped down version of the R4, and from this date all saloon-bodied Renault R4s came with a third window on each side.

Renault Australia did not just concentrate on Renaults, they also built and marketed Peugeots as well.

Renault Alpines were never imported into Australia, but as enthusiasts wanted more than just the normal local Renault offerings, Renault Alpine enthusiasts have privately imported the following models into Australia.

The former assumption has persisted to the present day, with writers of fiction, such as Mary Renault, and the film director Oliver Stone among its proponents, as well as modern historians such as Paul Cartledge, who says: " Rumour had it — and rumour was for once surely correct — that he and Alexander had once been more than just good friends.

This involved extending the wheelbase by just under 6 cm ( 2¼ inches ) though it retained the wheelbase difference between left and right sides, characteristic of several Renault models, resulting from the use of full-width torsion bars placed one behind the other, ahead of the rear wheels.

Renault sold the Fuego in the UK, aiming it at Opel Manta and Ford Capri buyers, where it became the top selling coupé during 1981-82, but sales fell off before finally ending in 1986 with just the GTS and Turbo as the two sole models.

The crash occurred at approximately 06: 13 ( GMT ), when a Land Rover Defender towing a loaded trailer ( carrying a Renault Savanna estate car ) swerved off the M62 motorway just before a bridge over the East Coast Main Line.

In the French market the Renault 10 found itself struggling to compete with the successful Peugeot 204 introduced in the same year, and just two years after launch the 10 itself was facelifted, rectangular headlights now further differentiating it from the Renault 8.

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.

Patrick Tambay was back driving for Renault after breaking his leg at Monaco just three weeks before.

Initially, Renault sold the R16 with just a 1. 4 L gasoline engine in GL specification for which was claimed ; in March 1968 there appeared at the Geneva Motor Show the 1. 6 L I4 TS which could top.

The Renault tank design bureau estimated that such a mock-up could be created for the negligible sum of just 6500 French franc and thus on 21 September made the counteroffer to rebuild one of the YS prototypes for ₣ 195, 000, apart from supplying the mock-up for ₣ 9500.

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.

Renault still led the constructors championship on 89 points, with McLaren in second on 71, just 2 points ahead of Ferrari on 69.

McLaren reduced the gap to Renault to just 12 points in the constructor's championship, followed by Ferrari, another 19 points in arrears.

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.

The poor sales performance of the stripped-down " 4CV Service " may have been linked to the growing popularity of the Citroën 2CV: although at this stage powered by an engine of just 375 cc and offering sclerotic performance, the 2CV was bigger than the Renault and in 1952 came with a starting price of just 341, 870 francs.

In 1905 he married Jeanne Renault ( 1886 – 1966 ) with whom he had two sons and three daughters.

The 1927 six-cylinder Grand Renault models NM, PI and PZ introduced the new three spring rear suspension that considerably aided road holding that was needed as with some body styles over was possible.

In 1971, Volvo joined Peugeot and Renault in the creation of the PRV company, a public limited company ( plc ) in which each of the three manufacturers owned an equal portion.

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.

Following Richards ' departure, Rocco Benetton managed the team for three years until its sale to Renault.

The Renault 9 was launched in the autumn of 1981 as a four-door saloon while the 11 arrived in the spring of 1983 as a three or five-door hatchback.

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.

Given that Renault ’ s 603 cc, 747 cc and 845 cc engines all shared the same cylinder stroke and were all of the same basic design, it is likely that there was very little difference between the manufacturing costs of the basic engine block between the three.

On this point Renault quickly acknowledged their error and cars produced from 1962 featured synchromesh on all three ratios.

The three principal new models introduced by Renault since the war had all featured monocoque " chassisless " construction which was believed to save cost in the manufacturing process and to cut running costs by reducing vehicle weight.

The Renault Alliance is a subcompact automobile manufactured and marketed in North America by American Motors Corporation ( AMC ) for model years 1983-1987 in two and four-door sedan configurations — and as a three or five-door hatchback, the Renault Encore, beginning in 1984.

Richard Teague, AMC's Vice President of Design, and his French counterpart, Robert Opron, director of Renault Styling, each traveled between France and the U. S. at least three times a year.

It was to have been the first body-style in a series of three, along with a four-door wagon and a two-door coupe, named Renault Allure.

Introduced two or three years after the Italian Fiat 127 and the French Renault 5, the model was seen at the time as Germany's first home grown entrant in Europe's emerging " supermini " class.

For example: smaller cars have three ( Citroën 2CV, Renault 4, some Peugeot 106s and Citroën Saxos, and the Tata Nano ).

The same individual purchased three more of the class from EWS, but they acquired new owners ; 31107 ( scrapped by C F Booth at Rotherham in May 2009, following a crash with a Renault Espace on a level crossing during Top Gear Series 9, Episode 5 in 2006 ), 31289 ( preserved at the Northampton & Lamport Railway ), and 31301 ( in store ).

Of the three contractors, Renault withdrew from the program, while in early 1946 the French government selected AMX and SOMUA to continue the development.

Jones ' second place allowed him to close to within two points of series leader René Arnoux who had collected three points for finishing fourth in his Renault RE20.

Before the race, three drivers were still in a position to win the World Drivers ' Championship: Alain Prost ( Renault ) led the championship with 57 points, followed by Nelson Piquet ( Brabham-BMW ) with 55 and René Arnoux ( Ferrari ) with 49.

Derek Warwick, in his first race for Renault, was 3rd on the grid with the McLaren-TAG of Alain Prost 4th, Prost returning to the team he started his career with after three seasons with Renault.

In April 1976 the Renault sports car team suspended Depailler for three races after he was involved in a crash which knocked out both his car and the Renault of teammate Jean-Pierre Jabouille.