60 years on, the Renault 4 is back in electric. A best-seller from the 60s to the 80s, it was emblematic of its era. At one and the same time a rally car, a vehicle for the Post Office, firefighters ...
Despite having an 87-kilowatt-hour battery pack, the whole car weighs just 2,200 pounds. It also looks fantastic.
In fact, the Pope's new ride is a 1984 Renault 4 that fully lives up to the pontiff's recent urging that we drive "humble" vehicles. Not that the Pope has shipped in the Renault to hammer home his ...