Renault

And I remember sitting there going, and Charlie was the first person in our circle to have a bad boy car.

He had that Renault where you press the button, it was like fast and furious.

And it was like a crazy, crazy car.

What, the Renault

5

Turbo? He had that, right? And he was the first guy to have like a souped up car.

It's a lithium-ion phosphate pack, about the same size of the pack as I had on my very first EV.

Actually, my very first Renault Zoe wasn't much bigger than that.

And that was a pure EV.

It'll DC charge at 55 kilowatts and AC charge at 11.

Es como si me vienes a, a, a venderme ahora un, un R5 y te digo: «Pero vamos a ver, vamos a ver cuánto yo veo ya del R5».

Claro que era muy bueno el coche de aquel, el Renault R5.

Ahora ya olvídate, ¿sabes? Eh, es que ya no tiene ni sistemas de seguridad ni nada en comparativa con los nuevos.

Pero aun así, ni eso.

No, no.

It was humiliating for us because before Renault purchased, let's call it what it is.

It's an alliance, but it was a majority held-

Well, they bought about 40% of the company.

I mean, can I touch just briefly on the punching from the canvas? Something happened once we, the whole thing with Mr.

Lutz saying what he said.

And then when Renault, suddenly the news is Renault bought us.

Renault was a smaller company than us.

So, no new models is zero.

One such brand, by the way, people will know this brand is Renault, for example.

Renault, okay, okay.

They haven't sold any.

They actually don't have any cars on display in Singapore.

I just wanted to also just talk about this.

This is the Renault Megane E-Tech Esprit Alpine, the new updated Renault that's coming next year.

This is now past the embargo, so I can't talk about this.

It was embargoed until 9 o'clock today.

with Gemini AI built in as well.

So that could be quite interesting as an alternative to Grok, say, for Tesla.

The Renault was having a run-out special, but now it's gone back to its, I guess, very close to its original pricing, $55,990 plus on road costs when it, I think, when cars come to market next year, I believe.

Yep.

Which, Christ, it's just...

And then there's this tiny Yish company called Renault, French, with basically three brands, which is Dacia, which is Romanian, and Alpine, which is their high-end sports car brand, which is also famous for their Formula One presence.

Well, there's mostly at the back, but that's another story.

And they don't have a

Renault engine anymore.

But that's also another story, which is a bit funny.

If you're

in a corporate team and then you get the engine somewhere else.

But yeah, I mean, the Geely is quite interesting because the motor, the electric motor is mounted in the rear and it's actually a rear wheel drive small hatch, which is almost unique these days.

I looked at the crash testing results, and it reminded me of a figure a mate sent me, a picture of a colleague who'd had an old Renault that had gone headfirst into something very flat and solid, and it looked like a very squashed nose, and it was exactly that.

But maybe that's a good thing, as we've talked about, because that's a crumple zone.

You don't have an engine to do it.