Subject: Re: Budget quattro/ 2.3 l 4kq (nac)

[David Miller]

I actually just saw a Fuego at junkyard here in the midle of farm country
Ohio, very suprising to me, and pretty much the first time I've ever seen a
real (non-AMC) Renault (I'm just a teenager).  Of course, the next junkyard
I visited just a few days later had an actual Renault 17, along with a few
other very interesting cars.

When I looked up information on the Fuego I was very suprised at how old it
was.  That design looks very good and has certainly withstood the test of
time, at least so far.  Maybe I should try buying it off the junkyard...

David Miller

on 12/8/01 10:02 AM, Nate Stuart at newt at newtsplace.com wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry C Leung" <l.leung at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Budget quattro/ 2.3 l 4kq (nac)
>
>
>> I forgot which (I thought it was the Turbo2) was FWD, the other (Turbo1)
>> was the rear mid-engined monster. The FWD one was more publicly availible
>> at a more paletable price, in Europe. The FWD one was more comparable to
>> the GTi's (and Pug GTi's) etc of their day. There higher end sport coupe
>> was the Fuego (not sure of the R number) which could be had from hot
>> (turbo) to not. Pretty car though.
>
> Yes, they certainly were. I always did like the lines of the Fuego, and the
> design was lightyears ahead of its time (the car was orrigionally produced
> in 1979). I used to have half a dozen or so of them a few years back. I was
> running my Fuego 1.6T right up until the turbo seals gave out and I got
> hooked on the TQ bug. Even had a little website abck in the day at:
> http://www.pivot.net/~stuart/Renault
> Still have 2 of them, though they are sadly off to the big scrap heap, I
> just don't have time to maintain several quattros and the Renaults :(
>
> Well off the Audi content....
> -Nate
> '89 90tq www.newtsplace.com/90tq
>
>