1983 Talbot-Matra Murena 2.2 S
Discussion
Hi Roy, welcome, and hope all is well. Apols for getting the bit about brown wrong. I must have mistranslated the relevant section of the book.
GreatGranny, re:for pressing on in wet weather, you can do this more than you can in, say, a Lotus Europa. The Murena is pleasantly grippy even in the wet, although you do of course have to exercise the usual cautions as with any fast mid engined RWD car.
GreatGranny, re:for pressing on in wet weather, you can do this more than you can in, say, a Lotus Europa. The Murena is pleasantly grippy even in the wet, although you do of course have to exercise the usual cautions as with any fast mid engined RWD car.
There was only one production line in the organisation that could make a galvanised chassis, and they took the Murena off that and placed the Espace on it instead. The Murena was a car that was brilliantly designed and engineered, and could and should have been one of the great French cars of the 80s, but corporate politics did for it. It did not get a modern alloy engine, and does seem to have been frowned upon by Renault, as it was better than the rather meh Fuego and less problematic than the Alpine, although it was perhaps a direct threat to neither, as it was neither a four seater coupe nor a quasi-supercar. So the Murena was killed off after just over three years, and is now an almost forgotten rarity, although it has a cult following in the Netherlands and Germany.
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