There's a Rootes connection to that Renault-Volvo V6. It was also used in
the Talbot Tagora, a belated replacement for the Humber Super Snipe. The
Tagora didn't exactly set the market alight and only lasted a few years.
Peugeot, Citroen, Alpine-Renault and Venturi have also used these engines.
I think it was Fiat and Lancia who shared the Saab 9000/Alfa 164 chassis,
rather than Renault.
Russ Maddock
http://www.petrie.starway.net.au/~sunbeam
-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-owner@autox.team.net <tigers-owner@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, 10 February 1998 21:17
Subject: tigers@autox.team.net digest #90 Tue Feb 10 03:05:01 MST 1998
>
>Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 18:07:08 -0500
>From: Alvin and Lucille Johnson <johnson@ids.net>
>Subject: Re: New kid on the block
>
>Steve Laifman wrote:
>>
>> Larry,
>>
>> The Maserati Quattroporte is one of the best looking sedans I've ever
>> seen. In the '60's, as well as today, it is quite a lovely piece of
>> work. As I dimly recall, it used the V-6 designed by a three country
>> consortium and used in Volvos (sic), the Citroen "Maserati,a Maserati
>> (Quattroporte?),
>No, the quattroposte(4-door in Italian) had a V-8, and it was in its
>time the fastest 4-door in the world. It precedes the shared engine
>design (a loser), which was between Renault and Volvo in the mid 70s.
>Volvo later supplied DeLorean with V-6s. You may be thinking of when
>Saab, Alfa, and Renault shared development costs for a chassis in the
>early 80s.
>This showed up under that ugly fastback Saab & the Alfa 164. the Renault
>version was never exported stateside.
>Al J.
>
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