become quite a rarity if. you are not. the first test runs commenced in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine for the prototype bar four known at the time only as project one twelve renault produced the compact its first car with front wheel drive from one thousand nine hundred sixty one to one nine hundred ninety two more than eight million of them in the course of those thirty one years alyssa basar fours from one nine hundred seventy she d gone looking for it in fact she d never forgotten it her love affair with this model began here over thirty years ago. elizabeth remembers they had one on the farm they had a nice car but their field cars they called it was always an art for when it gave up the ghost they got another one she learned how to drive in our ford age fifteen