I had a Renault 12TL between July 1981 and March 1985. Interesting vehicle that endeared me so much to Renault products that I have never owned or considered owning a Renault since. I think that’s all there is to say about the brand. 
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I had a Renault Megane RT turbo somethingorither years ago. Super fun and quick when it worked for all of five minutes.
Then one day it was raining and I found out the wipers decided out of nowhere that they didn’t want to work unless you pushed the cigarette lighter on. Then about 5 minutes after that the head gasket went.
Never again.
I’d still LOVE to own a Renault 4 though some day. What a car that would be for a bit of camping, or a picnic and a bit of radio. None of that HF cobblers though. A bit of 23cm and of course the mandatory 2m and 70cm naturally.
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One of the vehicles I learned to drive in was an R4. Much of the time it had its back seat out, and you could shove a couple of bales of hay in the back no problem. It was quite a good basic go-places vehicle, at least partly because it had half-reasonable clearance, which matters when you’re off the tarmac in Africa. It was never going to win any races, though, except possibly against a donkey cart.
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It’s not thru …
I’ll see your bales of hay, and raise you a set of golf clubs and what looks like some sort of pram converted in to a golf trolley shoved in to the back of an Allegro 1300 Special estate with hydrogas suspension!
I believe the God’s at Scuderia British Leyland made a posh Van Den Plas version too.
None of them are a patch on the ultra rare supercharged and turbocharged Allegro Equipe though. Premium tier motoring and British Leyland’s zenith. 
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