Renault Fuego
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The Renault Fuego was a four-seater, three-door hatchback heavily based on the Renault 18, sharing its floorpan, drivetrain, dashboard and other items. Renault started production of the Fuego in 1980. European production went on into 1987 and Renault Argentina produced the 'Fuego GTA Max' up into 1992. It replaced the Renault 15 and 17 coupés of the 1970s. It was the world's first car to feature remote central locking.
The car was a radical departure from the R15 and R17, as it introduced a rounded design instead of the wedge-shaped predecessors.
Model variants ran as follows, TL, TS, GTS, TX, GTX. The Fuego Turbo was added in 1983 with a midlife facelift to the front grille, bumpers and interior trim. While reliable and available with some of the best Renault engines of that time, the car had a bad image (not helped by the introduction of a turbodiesel variant) and never sold well. The Fuego was not directly replaced by another model in the Renault range.
A red Fuego appears in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill, while a gray metallic one appears in GoldenEye.
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| Supermini | Super 5 | Clio I | Clio II | Clio III | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Small family car | 9 / 11 | 19 | Mégane I | Mégane II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Large family car | 18 | 21 | Laguna I | Laguna II | Laguna III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Executive car | 25 | Safrane | Vel Satis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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