Renault Alliance
The Renault 9 and Renault 11 are compact automobiles, launched in the early 1980s, by the French car manufacturer Renault.
The 9 was a 4-door sedan, launched in 1982, and was winner of the Car Of The Year award of the same year. A version of the 9 was produced by American Motors in the United States, where it was known as the Alliance.
The 11 is a 3 or 5-door hatchback, and was launched in late 1983. The US version was known as the Encore.
Although the two cars have different names, and silhouettes, they are in fact identical under the skin, and were intended to jointly replace the older Renault 14.
Both cars were somewhat unremarkable, using Renault's archaic C-type overhead valve engines in 1.1 or 1.4 litre format, and a basic suspension design which resulted in a rather ordinary driving experience. The newer F-type engine which had been developed in collaboration with Volvo appeared in later years in 1.7 litre guise.
The 11 did have one moment of movie stardom in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, where Bond steals a Renault 11 taxi from a Parisian cab driver and uses it to pursue an assassin. The car has its roof torn off in the resulting car chase, and is then chopped in half in a collision with another car (a Renault 20!).
Aside from these dizzy heights, the 9 and 11 were replaced in 1988 by the Renault 19.
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