I was talking about currently available new models. Alfa pulled out of the US around 1995, so it is possible that you could see some new looking ones around. Renault had a strong presence in the US in the 1980's when it bought most of American Motors Corp. (AMC) so it could have more stores from which to market its products. The cars were interesting looking, but mechanically horrible, so AMC went further down the drain. Renault officially began to vanish in the US when Chrysler bought the nearly worthless AMC to get the still valuable Jeep division. But Chrysler still marketed two Renault models (Premier and Medallion - I don't recall which Renault model numbers those models corresponded to) under the Eagle brand for a few years because that was part of the contract agreement. I believe that ended around 1992. Walt Kienzle "andrewunix" <agreenbunopsamnet> wrote in message news:slrnb0ortd.7of.agreenbunopsam.nyx.net... > Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:31:21 -0600, wkienzlenopsam.com suggested: > : What Tom wrote below is very true. Not only don't we have Peugeots, we > : don't have any French cars (I think the big Citroens are very interesting, > : but they haven't been here since 1967). And the only Italian cars available > : here are ones that most people can't afford from Masarati and Lamborghini; > : no Alfa-Romeo's or Lancia's for us. I just came back from Germany and was > : surprised to see what looked like an economy version of a Mercedes. The > : smallest, cheapest Mercedes model we have in the US is the C230, which is > : considered a mid-line model in Germany. > > I see Alfa Romeos on the road and I live in Indiana. Don't know where they > come from, though... > > A friend used to drive a Renault. I'll have to ask him where he got it. > > -- > agreenbu Return to Main Index
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