Renault 4 Plein Sud review | An EV with retro charm meets open-top driving

#renault #renault4pleinsud The whole idea of creating a lineup of retro-look electric cars came about by accident. At the height of Renault's post-2020 cash crisis, then-new CEO Luca De Meo was touring the design department when he passed by a styling model for a possible new Renault 5, designed to look like a modern update of the 1980s classic. Apparently, the design team had created it off their own bat and figured that leaving it out for the boss to see would do no harm One look from Luca was all it took as he effectively said, "We're building that. Make it happen." That would be quickly joined by the Renault 4 E-Tech, a car designed to look at least like a memory of the classic original Renault 4 of the 1960s. That was the best-selling car in the company's history, which was so fundamentally well designed that it stayed in production until the 1990s. In a further retro step, it has created the Renault 4 Plein Sud name for a version that comes equipped with a retractable folding canvas roof. The Renault 4 Plein Sud gets the same powertrain and only the smallest of reductions in driving range. That roof can open in as little as ten seconds too. Read our full review on the Renault 4 Plein Sud here: https://www.completecar.ie/car-review... Contents: 00:00 - Introduction 00:41 - The history of the Renault 4 01:50 - Renault 4 Sixties 02:20 - Renault 4 Plein Air 03:04 - Renault 4 Plein Sud 04:14 - Interior 05:43 - Driving the Renault 4 Plein Sud 06:44 - Opening and closing the roof 08:53 - Drives just like the hardtop 09:24 - Sunroof or convertible? 10:12 - Summary