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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2476738, member: 961"] Oh, yeah. I had forgotten this. Actually, I've tried to put it out of my mind. For a period of about six months, I owned a Renault LeCar. I have no idea why I thought it would be a good idea to buy, but I found a nearly new one with almost no miles on it for a good price, and, well, I bit. If you don't know this vehicle, let's put it this way: It was so small that in order to enter the rear seating area (if you were insane enough to want to do so), you had to pull lever to get the the front seat to fold forward, as in any two-door, at which time it also slid forward toward the steering wheel, which in principle gave you enough room to lever yourself into the back. I don't think I carried anyone back there except maybe my infant daughter. Of it I did, I have mercifully forgotten it. After spending time trying to get into the car, I would drive that thing down Route 2 from Montville, where we lived at the time, to Hartford, where I worked. It had absolutely no power, no matter what gear I shifted into, and having to pass another car was an exercise in self-inflicted terror. The end came when I was stopped at a light in East Hartford and another car tapped my front fender. I figured it was just body damage (which it was), but they also broke a headlight and I later found out that because Renault had failed to put fuses on that electrical circuit, it blew out the wiring on that side. Only later I discovered that the car was a partnership between Renault and Hamilton Beach. The four forward speeds were actually Grate, Chop, Blend and Liquefy. [/QUOTE]

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