KruJoe Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 I just saw this on C4 for the first time... ignore the last 15 seconds:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcCzLqFywAMIt must have been great fun filming it - most of the footage looks new
pogweasel Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 F*ck yeah!Gettin' grubby in an R4, beachcombing in an R5, snowhunting in a 16? HEAVENLY. (Balls to whatever it is they are actually advertising. Looks toss. Is it a Nissan?)
Ross_K Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Makes me want to buy an R4 or R5, not a jacked-up Nissan...
pompei Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 TWINGO in there! Never understood why they didn't do a RHD and sent them over here - they'd have cleaned up
j-j Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 TWINGO in there! Never understood why they didn't do a RHD and sent them over here - they'd have cleaned up Renno's worst decision in the last 20 there!
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Nice to see a bit of a nod to the past from Regie like other manufacturers have done!
pogweasel Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Actually, I have just seen this 'BIG' on the proper telly (I was watching 'Frost'), and is it me or does that new MPV4x4 look just a smidge like an R20/30, around the rump, if you squint a bit?
M'coli Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 TWINGO in there! Never understood why they didn't do a RHD and sent them over here - they'd have cleaned up Renno's worst decision in the last 20 there!IIRC summat to do with brake master cylinders interfering with the engine, and with the amount they'd have sold there wasn't any profit in sorting it out and tooling up for a rhd one. Shame, because I love the early Twingo...Good job they made the one in the advert with a non-GB plate, despite the sheep looking like British mules, however!
KruJoe Posted July 4, 2008 Author Posted July 4, 2008 Yep, shame about the Twingo. They must have been good to make Brits put up with LHD; there are loads still running around the UK. And I'm sure I've seen one converted to RHD with bits from... ?? or was that just in a dream I had? On the sheep... I've not seen mule ewes with horns quite like that in GB!Anyway, here is the behind the scenes clip of the making of the ad in Spain:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gllAKgbSjvM&feature=relatedHow many times did they send that R12 across the ford? D'ya think they made any alterations?
Split_Pin Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Just seen this on the telly - R12 going for a dip - KWAWLITY Funny that the 'new' 4x4 rescues the R4 from the mud!I recon it should probably have been the other way around, with the city-boy-driven 4x4 being rescued by an R4 that had only ever been repaired with a hammer, a stick and some twine, and being driven by a bumbling Monseiur puffing on a Gitanes.
RENOMAD Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 I have to say that I love that ad,,but because of the older cars.It actually brought a tear/teer to my eyes--Brill.The Koleos,,well I'm not convinced----Its does not feel like a Renault Inside.I got a chance to give one a good look around the first one that arrived during the week.First impressions" were" encouraging. The Megane front end looks better in the flesh than pictures suggest---though this comes a few years too late as they change the front of the cars(Laguna)etc.Rear end is striking,,but the boot is small--very small.The interior is a mix of Renault/Nissan/Koreanish.---More Nissan-Hyundai than Renault though.If somebody covered the badge on the wheel you would definitely say it was Korean. I know that it is built at the Samsung factory,and this shows! The climate control unit is straight out of the Qashqai. I think its 4 years too late coming to the market,and it brings nothing new----Time will tell, but as much as a Renault Fan as I am,,not sure if i'd buy!!!!!!
mk2_craig Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 is it me or does that new MPV4x4 look just a smidge like an R20/30, around the rump, if you squint a bit?
Timewaster Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 Doesn't footage of a R4 in the mud, a R5 on the beach and a swimming R12 just go to proove that you DONT NEED A 4x4!!
Karmann Ghiaman Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 Thanks for the great link KruJoe! Reckon that Douze had its engine specially sealed before they faked it crossing une riviere. Renault outside, Rustbucket inside...
retrogeezer Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 I know that it is built at the Samsung factorySamsung?? I thought they made TV's??We had a Twingo hire car in Crete back in 1996 - thought it was fantastic.
mk2_craig Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 I wonder how many of those old Renners were cherished cars carefully tracked down through owners' clubs etc, and how many wound up in some Spanish breakers yard the instant filming finished.
Jazzy Jeff Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 I've just seen this on the telly proper. Brings a tear to even the hardiest eye. Vive La Quatrelle!
RedSparrow Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 A good advert indeed. My mum had a few renault 5s and I always thought they were great, even though they weren't!Wasn't the Twingo designed by Dacia in the late 80s and sold to Renault? Sure I read that somewhere...
Ross_K Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 Wasn't the Twingo designed by Dacia in the late 80s and sold to Renault? Sure I read that somewhere...It was based on the Polish Beskid 106 apparently. Renault waited until the patent on the body style expired, and then knocked out their own version. Or so the story goes... Judge for yourself:
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Dunno but the Mk1 Twingo bears an uncanny resemblance to a MkI Strada from the front!
55bloke Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Drifting a little off topic- - It's taken as a given these days that most adverts are total bollocks (where is the advertising standards authority?) and car ads especially tell us virtually nothing about the actual car, only the image the manufacturor is trying to project. But the one that really gets my goat at the moment is for the new Ford Kuga (have they forgotten about the Cougar?) It makes the point that when starting with a blank sheet of paper to design something, you don't have to follow the crowd, you can be original and come up with something new and fresh, suggesting that's what the designers of the Kuga have done. Then, when it appears on screen, it looks EXACTLY like all the others in it's class!!! How dim do they think we all are?
j-j Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Re car ads being bollox, exactly! look at the ridiculous new Saab advert for its 'green' efficiency but "power when needed to overtake" they don't explain (not even hint) as to how it works, just state some ambiguous lie like "due to advanced technology" and the finale of the ad is a clearly sped up bit of footage of the thing winding off into the distance. what thoroughbred pish that is...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Wasn't the Twingo designed by Dacia in the late 80s and sold to Renault? Sure I read that somewhere...It was based on the Polish Beskid 106 apparently. Renault waited until the patent on the body style expired, and then knocked out their own version. Or so the story goes... Judge for yourself:It looks like what you'd get if you mashed together an R5 Supercinq, with a Citroen AX, sprinkled with a dash of Daihatsu Domino!
Baz Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 I quite like the Koleos, and I hope Renault sell shedloads of 'em....They deserve to after producing such a beautifully evocative ad for it....Fives frolicking on a beach? Twelve fording a deep river? Sixteen in the snow? Utterly SUPERB! And that biege Espace? That is the EXACT Espace of all my dreams....I want it!
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