The Tortuous Road to Alpine Peaks – Driven To Write
Story by Patrick le Quément about how Renault, Alpine, and Matra evolved their sports car and racing programmes over the years
First-hand accounts from top auto design brass is not only rare — but virtually unheard of. Patrick le Quément, continuing to lead the discussion even when not running Renault's design efforts, has a series of articles at Driven To Write that always come highly recommended. From le Quément:
"The project brief was delivered to our bright-eyed designers who instantly began to draw whilst listening to our pitch — one which came with recommendations for discretion as this was going to be, once again, a behind the cover job."
The Tortuous Road to Alpine Peaks — Part IV
Back to bare necessities It was back to the bare necessities, the one that Baloo the bear sang to jungle-boy Mowgli in the Disney film ‘The Jungle Book’. The failure of W71 was a huge blow and we …
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