The French Aztek?

[Robert G]

A Truck With French AccentIn the days when French manufacturers sold cars in the U.S., Renault sold its small sedan, the Renault 5, as 'Le Car'. The company's latest concept - which will not be sold in the U.S. or anywhere else, for that matter - could be called 'Le Pickup.' It almost is, in fact, for it labors under the title of the "Trafic Deck'up" - and no, "Trafic" isn't a misprint, it's the name Renault gives to its delivery truck range in Europe and it's the way the French spell "Traffic."Based on a van rather than a car, the Deck'up is big - a fact that can be judged from the way in which the 20-inch wheels look positively MINI-sized in comparison to the bulk of the vehicle. The concept seems to draw its inspiration from a series of Japanese concepts of the mid-1980s, when every local manufacturer was building cars aimed at birdwatchers and those who appreciated the great outdoors. It therefore has a rear loadspace designed for two people with binoculars, rather than the motorbikes, building materials or (removed)-dogs that American pickups are meant to carry. In the same perverse way, the four-door, four-seat 'crew-cab' offers more space than many five-seater sedans.The Deck'up has all-wheel drive and is "designed with off-road adventure in mind." But not, it would seem, America's view of off-road adventure - the power unit is a 135hp 2.5-liter four-cylinder diesel.Pic--scroll down: http://www.thecarconnection.co...n=156

[joatmon]

odd that, maybe they got the first two letters of the vehicle name wrong

[Robert G]

LOL. (BTW, how do you post the pic in the message? Excuse my ignorance.)

[joatmon]

I went to the url you listed and found the picture. Clicking on it gave a bigger version. I right clicked on it and looked at the properties (windows) and copied the URL to the image. In the genvibe reply box, I typed [IMG], pasted the image URL, and typed [/IMG], so that it looked like [IMG]http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/ ... _image.jpg[/IMG] (This currently doesn't work for images uploaded to genvibe in posts, the forum strips off the image reference)You can also hit the little blue IMAGE button which will put the [IMG] and [/IMG] tags in, and then between the two tags either paste or type in the URL for the image you want to display.

[Robert G]

Thanks.

[Robert G]

I see that the open back area is small, but apparently the car overall is huge. The article says that those wheels (which look kinda small in relation to the rest of the vehicle) are 20" wheels.

[YoYo]

That size vehicle with 135 hp motor??!?

[4X4CHICHI]

better looking than the honda element

[redlava]

Quote, originally posted by 4X4CHICHI »better looking than the honda elementBut not by much.

[trocar]

maybe if you close one eye and squint really hard with the other????

[Big_Red]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »odd that, maybe they got the first two letters of the vehicle name wrongAAAAAHHHH what the fu@$ is that???? That makes the Aztek look purchasable.

[pmh013]

Sorta reminds me of a GEM car. http://www.gemcar.com

[Jethro]

Interesting! I rather like it.