Last rides with high stakes

[Butch]

Thank you all.

https://www.allcarindex.com/concept/france/matra

You can see for yourself, how many Matra prototypes used letter P

To be exhaustive, we must add the Matra Bagheera U8. It is a Bagheera with an extended wheelbase to accommodate an 8-cylinder U-shaped engine. That is to say, two parallel 4-cylinder engines connected by a chain. Economical to produce but disastrous in terms of fuel consumption.

[noise]

The pic's show how Simca struggled with his direction. The Bagheera was innovative, while the Simca/Chrysler 2 litre in the background was the opposite.

Never heard about U engines, thnx it's interesting.

Most common layouts are line, V and boxer but there are much more variations. Lancia (when will we see a Fulvia in nfs4?) used a V4 which is different from the V4 by ford.

Great video of Matra in GTR game b.t.w

[Butch]

840 kg, 255ch, 4WD., manual transmission. A toy, a smile machine and the exact opposite of an American car.

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[noise]

Looks good, it's also the opposite of a Facel Vega , and by 1986 American cars got downsized too.Renault sold his 9 and 11 as AMC Alliance/Encore. Did Matra ever sold cars in the USA?

255ch, is that top speed or horsepower (cheval vapeur=cv isn't it?)

[Spectre]

It looks gorgeous! Keep it up!

[EvoX]

Reminds me of Asphalt Extreme buggies

[Butch]

Noise -> Yes, sometime we use "ch" for "CV". I don't think Matra sent some car in the USA. I think the average American disdains French cars just as much as the average French person disdains American cars. They know a little about the Citroen DS and the Peugeot 403 convertible. People here think that all muscle cars are Mustangs, and that K2000 is a Corvette.

Spectre -> Sure

Evox -> But the matra isn't offroad at all.

[noise]

Matra is very French and not a real carcompany is it?, where Renault is a big company who thinks more globally. There were 6 cyl.Renault/Ramblers in the sixties.

This car proved there is a substitute for cubic inches, is that 2 litre turbo by Renault?

In Holland we knew the Matra Bagheera (later Talbot Murena) sold by Simca dealers. And that Matra/Simca Rancho which became famous in a TV program (Bassie & Adriaan)

Are there more production-cars build by Matra?