Originally Posted by luke strawwalker

My old man bought a used Renault Fuego back in the 80's for my mom to drive to work... that was runnin' lil car, lemme tell ya. It was front wheel drive, but the engine sat in it fwd/backwards like a rear wheel drive car... the transmission was behind it like normal but drove the differential built into the front part of the transmission case through a jackshaft or something... CV joints came out from either side to the wheels... that car ran like a scalded dog... rode nice, just a nice car... Mom drove the wheels off it. EXCELLENT balance and handling!

Problem was, when it started getting a little older... it had always been a bit hard to get parts for, then one day the alternator went out. Couldn't find one for love nor money. Dad finally had it rebuilt at an alternator shop for like $300 (which was a lot of money in those days-- probably like $1,000 or more now). So once he had it running again he decided to trade it on a Plymouth Horizon... which was a POS...

Evidently, it's the Dodge/Chrysler/AMC collaboration with Renault on cheap-@$$ models that was the problem, because that Renault Fuego was a nice car...

later! OL JR

Originally Posted by A Fish Named Wallyum

Ah, yes. The Fuego. The French answer to the Matador. (A What-ador?)