Renault was making good non luxury electric cars, that are still on the road today, in 2012. Their engineering is so good, and they are so simple, that they just do not stop. Their aftermarket prices show how much the market prefers EVs.

I’m only winding French car owners up. I owned a Peugeot for a few years and I loved it!

Sure, bits of it used to fall off with alarming regularity, and it’d just turn itself off when stopped at the lights periodically… but apart from that…

Ironically, Dacia are the best cars Renault sells :)

Haha, I am really happy with my 2019 Renault, too (I never wanted to own a french car, but the model we bought was the only one in the entire market that fit all our requirements). There is and should be no french car without its little "strangenesses" and ours is no exception. Still: overall we couldn't be more happy, had zero technical issues, and enjoy the fact that besides the occasional "why did they do that??" it has also lots of "how great that they actually thought of this!"-moments