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From Our Man in Tuscany: Another Renault 4

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  When too many Renault 4s are barely enough!  Today's beauty - brought to us by OMiT - is the second example he's snapped in as many weeks and the third to grace the pages of this 'blog (links available at the bottom of the page). The plastic grille suggests that it's a post-1974 version, as the two previous iterations (1961-67 and '67-74) wore metal air intakes, the first with multiple vertical bars and the second featuring a single horizontal aluminium slat ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4 , accessed 28 SEP 25) .  There's not much otherwise to externally differentiate between examples built during the model's 33 year, 8,000,000 unit production run.     Yes. That's eight million Renault 4s, which is why they're not an uncommon sight even today, some thirty years after production ended in Slovenia (ibid.).  They're cultishly popular in Madagascar, too, as the following two excellent DW Rev videos demonstrate: https://youtu.be/kOJGg4XvuJ...