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"Praise of a servant of France: the 4L!"

2021-11-05T19:42:59.541Z


TRIBUNE - Sixty years ago, the first examples of the famous Renault model left the factory. The writer pays him homage.


My mother had an "apple green" one.

And you?

To evoke the memory of the Renault 4, 4L for close friends, it is to put the automobile back in the heart of families.

The 4L says a lot about our lost position.

Recalling its glorious hours is to praise a France capable of reweaving weak links between rurality and urbanism.

The 4L was this popular object, a simple and innovative national treasure, practical and not without a rustic charm, friendly to young and old, as at home in the city as in the provoking countryside, sixty years after its launch. , smile.

Witness of happy times, the 4L illustrated the faith in the value of work and the refusal to stand still.

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Today when the car is banned from the roads and from the spirits, only to see in a model sold more than 8 million copies between 1961 and 1992 in more than 100 nations and produced in 28 different countries a nostalgic folklore and a polluting machine is to lack both heart and strategic vision.

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Source: lefigaro

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