"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/15/2016 at 18:08 • Filed to: Scrap
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/15/2016 at 18:08 • Filed to: Scrap | 0
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Time to return to our favourite car graveyard and identify the deceased. I’ve driven one.
Picture by scrawb on Flickr.
And we have winners: Renault 18 in what was this shade of green.
MultiplaOrgasms
> Cé hé sin
08/15/2016 at 18:12 |
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Could’ve been a Peugeot 305 or Renault 18 once. The front isn’t particularly sharknosed so I go with the Renault.
duurtlang
> MultiplaOrgasms
08/15/2016 at 18:14 |
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Renault 18 would’ve been my first guess. A 305 is a lot smaller.
Edit: French wikipedia tells me Renault built over 2 million of these. Yes, over 2 million. Very hard to believe nowadays.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> duurtlang
08/15/2016 at 18:18 |
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The 18 has a longitudinal engine so it gains some front overhang compared to the 305 but other than that they’re about the same size.
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duurtlang
> MultiplaOrgasms
08/15/2016 at 18:19 |
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They are? I’ll take your word for it. Despite being a current twofold 1980s Peugeot owner I’m not overly familiar with the 305. And much less so with the Renault 18, as where I tend to see a 305 once in a (rare) while, the 18 is utterly extinct.
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Cé hé sin
> duurtlang
08/15/2016 at 18:25 |
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Surprisingly, I found 429 for sale
here!
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duurtlang
> Cé hé sin
08/15/2016 at 18:27 |
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And 198 Peugeot 305s. I’d expected the 305 to be way more prevalent. Odd.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> duurtlang
08/15/2016 at 18:30 |
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Renault has a habit of selling ridiculous numbers of cars that somehow all but disappear completely. The only Renaults made before 1990s that seem to be registered at all are those bloody R4s.
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Cé hé sin
> duurtlang
08/15/2016 at 18:31 |
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They were popular when new and France is both dry in many areas and keen on keeping old cars.
The scrapyard pictures were all taken in early 2010 and many of the cars there are mid 1990s so about 15 years old when taken off the road - which is about the average life of a car.
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Cé hé sin
> MultiplaOrgasms
08/15/2016 at 18:35 |
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I don’t think I’ve seen a “numbered” Renault outside of a classic show for ten years or more. Some “named” ones like the Safrane and the first Clio are long gone too.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> Cé hé sin
08/15/2016 at 19:05 |
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It says a lot when Lancias that barely made it into six-figure sales have a higher survivability rate outside of their home country.
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Cé hé sin
> MultiplaOrgasms
08/16/2016 at 04:27 |
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They do? I haven’t seen one in a very long time.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> Cé hé sin
08/16/2016 at 11:30 |
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Did they pull out of Ireland in 1994 as well? More onto the point, there are at least seven Lancia k and Lybras roaming my rather small hometown, all in rather good condition. Not bad considering that these cars were built between 1994 to 2005 and that all variants of these two models only managed a total of ~280.000 sales (which is about the same as the number of Golfs Volkswagen sells in Germany alone over the course of one year) of which an estimated 85% remained in Italy.
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Cé hé sin
> MultiplaOrgasms
08/16/2016 at 13:25 |
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Yes, the last Lancia was the Thema. I think sales were actually increasing at the time but the lack of demand in the UK put an end to rhd production.
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MultiplaOrgasms
> Cé hé sin
08/16/2016 at 13:38 |
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More Chryslers to you.