Well, Froggie, with all due respect to France and the French, a nation and people I admire, you need to tell that to someone who didn't once have the misfortune of owning a Renault Dauphine...my conclusion was that the Dauphine was an elaborate joke, probably concocted by a group of French automobile executives one evening over a few bottles of wine...the Dauphine's only redeeming virtue was a two tone horn that could be made to go BEEPbeep BEEPbeep BEEPbeep...that was kinda cool..Viva la France !!!
French engine f.. you!
I don't know were do you come from, but stop to shit on french car. Renault is the biggest (in quantity) car builder in europ with bad motor??
I agree the inside quality is not good as german cars, but not the motor.
Yes, they were desperate. It was also outfitted with several rocket motors for takeoff. The original glider version was hauled up with THREE me-110 bombers and when that was realized to be too dangerous, they built a custom towplane from two large bombers stuck together with 5 engines. That didn't work too good either, so they stuck engines on the glider. A good number were shot down because they flew so low and slow....
This plane is the Messerschmidt Gigant, a powered version of a glider Goering wanted to carry tanks across the English Channel. Its cargo capacity was 22 tons. Only about twenty were ever built and they suffered a high rate of loss when deployed in Africa and the Eastern Front.
