The fabulous World of the unknown French sports car makers!

[anonymous-user]

Renault!

...well the old Sport Spider. They should really get back into this sort of stuff, give the motorised shopping trolleys a rest for a bit.

Big fan of Venturi and the Atlantique would have one if I could find one.

[Ciid]

Kierkegaard said:

Renault!

...well the old Sport Spider. They should really get back into this sort of stuff, give the motorised shopping trolleys a rest for a bit.

Big fan of Venturi and the Atlantique would have one if I could find one.

Finally they will launch the new Alpine in the next year!

Edited by Ciid on Tuesday 7th June 13:20

[blueg33]

Ciid said:

Kierkegaard said:

Renault!

...well the old Sport Spider. They should really get back into this sort of stuff, give the motorised shopping trolleys a rest for a bit.

Big fan of Venturi and the Atlantique would have one if I could find one.

Finaly they will launch the new Alpine in the next year!

Shame it won't be like the v6 road racer they showcased a few years ago

[Ciid]

blueg33 said:

Ciid said:

Kierkegaard said:

Renault!

...well the old Sport Spider. They should really get back into this sort of stuff, give the motorised shopping trolleys a rest for a bit.

Big fan of Venturi and the Atlantique would have one if I could find one.

Finaly they will launch the new Alpine in the next year!

Shame it won't be like the v6 road racer they showcased a few years ago

This one?

[blueg33]

Yeah, here is a pic of the actual one

[Ciid]

blueg33 said:

Yeah, here is a pic of the actual one

It's very nice, but it must be too much extreme, the new Alpine will be much more user friendly, more confortable and more spacious.

But that concept looks awesome

[300bhp/ton]

I very much like these:



Although never actually seen one in person

But on paper it ticks all the boxes that I'd want from a car. And I rather like how they look.

I think I was introduced to them on Forza or Grand Turismo, I forget which.

Only downside is, when I did some reading up on them, they seemed some what pricey...

[blueg33]

Ciid said:

blueg33 said:

Yeah, here is a pic of the actual one

It's very nice, but it must be too much extreme, the new Alpine will be much more user friendly, more confortable and more spacious.

But that concept looks awesome

Extreme is OK by me

[irocfan]

Ciid said:

medieval said:

Voison et Amilcar...

And also:

Panhard
Clément-Bayard
Delahaye
Salmson
Delage
De Dion-Bouton
Darracq
De Dietrich
Ballot
Hotchkiss
Delaunay-Belleville
Mors

and many others.

But then the Nazis got jealous and we know the whole story...

surprised no-one has mentioned Facel Vega yet

[Ciid]

irocfan said:

Ciid said:

medieval said:

Voison et Amilcar...

And also:

Panhard
Clément-Bayard
Delahaye
Salmson
Delage
De Dion-Bouton
Darracq
De Dietrich
Ballot
Hotchkiss
Delaunay-Belleville
Mors

and many others.

But then the Nazis got jealous and we know the whole story...

surprised no-one has mentioned Facel Vega yet

Facel Vega was more luxury than sporty.

[Ciid]

The Pescarolo 01 was the first sports prototype racing car built entirely by French team Pescarolo Sport. It was designed to meet the LMP1 and LMP2 regulations for Le Mans Prototypes in the Le Mans Series as well as at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and replace Pescarolo's previous C60 chassis which had been heavily modified from cars purchased through Courage Compétition. The first 01s debuted at the 2007 1000 km of Monza, and are still used by several teams today.

In 2010 OAK Racing bought Pescarolo Sport and in 2012 their LMP2 car was renamed the Morgan LMP2 due to OAK's partnership with Morgan Motor Company.

Pescarolo 01



Morgan LMP2

[Ciid]

Onroak formed a partnership with Guy Ligier to assist in the development and sales of an evolutionary version of the Ligier JS 53 Group CN prototype before designing a closed-cockpit variant known as the JS 55. This agreement extended to naming rights for a new LMP2 car designed and constructed entirely by Onroak in early 2014, the Ligier JS P2. Onroak and Ligier followed the JS P2 with the JS P3 intended for the LMP3 class which has debuted in 2015.

[blueg33]

Saw this Ligier last month. Their new LMP 3 car. It is a very nice thing in matt carbon fibre

[Ciid]

blueg33 said:

Saw this Ligier last month. Their new LMP 3 car. It is a very nice thing in matt carbon fibre

Very nice, this is a Ligier JS P3 of the United Autosports team.


https://www.facebook.com/unitedautosports/

[Dusty964]

No mention of Debora



Or Welter Racing

[Dusty964]

Or indeed Rondeau, who won le mans in 1980 and is still the only driver to win Le Mans in a car bearing his own name.

Edited by Dusty964 on Monday 13th June 06:37

[Ciid]

Dusty964 said:

Or indeed Rondeau, who won le mans in 1980 and is still the only driver to win Le Mans in a car bearing his own name.

I didn't know about that, thank you very much!

[Ciid]

Dusty964 said:

No mention of Debora



Or Welter Racing

Welter Racing was founded by Gérard Welter, an ancient Peugeot design manager.

[Ciid]

Norma Auto Concept is a French constructor of racing cars. It was founded in 1984 by Norbert Santos and Marc Doucet and initially designed and built only cars for the French Hillclimbing championship. After success in the hillclimbing scene Santos and Doucet decided to build endurance race cars.

http://norma-auto-concept.com/

[Ciid]

The Norma M200P is a Le Mans Prototype built by Norma Auto Concept in 2010.