Re: The joy of Engine-Cars

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.