Do Americans Know What A Clio Is?

[M.A.C]

On Wednesday I was doing a track day at Nurburgring GP Circuit.

I was looking on YouTube and found a video of me overtaking an American saying "what the f**k is that thing"

Heres the link to the video - Skip to 11.48 mins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr-vBGAFfhc

 

[Stu.]

lol! good effort. What car were they in?

 

[BoatNonce]

Lol!

 

[M.A.C]

I cant remember what car at all!

It was the craziest track day ever no briefing literally turn up and go!!! you have around 20 motorbikes flying around, all types of cars overtaking whenever they like (basically a race) People are more careful on the Nordschleife.

I've got on board videos just need to get round to uploading them.

 

[tanker]

Don't think he likes it!! Lol

 

[SnapMonkey]

Renault has never been sold in the US, so no.

Peugeot is / was IIRC.

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

FLOL!!!!

 

[.Stevo.C.]

Renault has never been sold in the US, so no.

Peugeot is / was IIRC.

Renault have been sold in the US.

 

[Knuckles]

Lol! Impressive :approve:

 

[Matt W]

Renault has never been sold in the US, so no.

Peugeot is / was IIRC.

Are you sure?

 

[Matt W]

This club would disagree with you!

http://www.renaultclub.us/

 

[karol_SVK]

I have seen a few V6 with US plates on photos. One of them was even of pink color

I the video it look more like he was just wondering how could something like a clio take him over in the end of a curve.

 

[Ray Gin]

Hahaha, that's great!

 

[SnapMonkey]

Hmmmm, so Renault was sold in the US between the mid 70s and 1987.

​So they wouldn't know what a Clio is.

I have seen a few V6 with US plates on photos. One of them was even of pink color

Imported?

 

[Mike_SE]

Haha love that!

 

[Dolan]

Haha made me laugh. What car was they in?

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Haha made me laugh. What car was they in?

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[M.A.C]

I've just watched my on board video and you can kind of see what car it is. I will post a photo when I'm home.

 

[Wick]

Based on his other videos a Chevy Cobalt SC...

In American a clio is a "commmmpaaact"

 

[Adamm.]

Lol.

 

[M.A.C]

 

[jam.]

I have seen a few V6 with US plates on photos. One of them was even of pink color

I thought they were 'illegal' in the states due to strict emissions laws or something. Or maybe that was just one state. Or have I just made they up?

 

[BoatNonce]

Muscle beats import, every time. Apart from then.

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

IIRC, importing a car for road use in the USA it has to be 15 years old.

 

[M.A.C]

When watching his video, I thought he was going pretty quick.

 

[Dolan]

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To what point ?

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

To what point ?

Post 4, where he says he doesn't know what car he was in However we now know what car it is

 

[Dolan]

Post 4, where he says he doesn't know what car he was in However we now know what car it is

haha some how I missed that bit

 

[Harbinger]

Brilliant!

 

[MicKPM]

Should've wound down the window and screamed "Yo ass hurts"... he'd have loved it.

 

[imprezaworks]

Ha ha

 

[Add197]

"What is that thing" that is a clio 182 and it just smoked your yank ass

 

[Nyall]

"Automatic spoiler, dayum!"

 

[decco]

Most yank dont realise the rest of the world exists. so the answer is more than likely no

 

[SC03OTT]

What's wrong with him not knowing what a Clio is? There will be a plethora of cars from over there that we won't know about because they're not available to us.

 

[Matthew]

How will they have got the car over to Germnay, shipped it then flew out sepperate?

That's dedication for a track day! Ha

 

[Breamy]

I believe a lot of the US cars over there are from a nearby airforce base

 

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How will they have got the car over to Germnay, shipped it then flew out sepperate?

That's dedication for a track day! Ha

or he is in the forces in germany possibly ???

they have a few bases like .... errr Ramstein and the surrounding bases which is not that far from the ring !!

 

[Matthew]

Ah yeah, I'd not thought about that...

 

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Lots of american bases in that area ... and ramstein has every american car dealership on site ... it was at one time the largest american comunity not on US soil with a quater of a million people living there