{"id":35590,"date":"2026-09-26T22:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/blue-paint-white-stripes-renault-8-gordini-returns-as-a-rwd-electric-ghost\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:37:19","slug":"blue-paint-white-stripes-renault-8-gordini-returns-as-a-rwd-electric-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/blue-paint-white-stripes-renault-8-gordini-returns-as-a-rwd-electric-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue paint, white stripes: Renault 8 Gordini returns as a RWD electric ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the hot hatch became Europe&#8217;s idea of fun, French rally enthusiasts worshipped a little shoebox called &#8220;la Gorde.&#8221; In 1964, Renault put a crossflow head onto a rear-mounted engine, dialed in a tail-heavy, pendulum-like handling balance, slapped two white racing stripes over Bleu de France paint, and gave everyday motorists a masterclass in opposite-lock physics.<\/p>\n<p>If you mastered an original Renault 8 Gordini on a rain-slicked Alpine pass, you could drive anything &#8211; don&#8217;t take my word for it, ask rally god Jean Ragnotti, who learned his legendary car control from that very rear axle. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/renault-electric-vehicles-10.php\">Renault<\/a> decided that it would be a great idea to drag that rear-wheel-drive troublemaker into the high-voltage era.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/blue_paint_white_stripes_renault_8_gordini_returns_as_a_rwd_electric_ghost-news-6259.php\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the hot hatch became Europe&#8217;s idea of fun, French rally enthusiasts worshipped a little shoebox called &#8220;la Gorde.&#8221; In 1964, Renault put a crossflow head onto a rear-mounted engine, dialed in a tail-heavy, pendulum-like handling balance, slapped two white racing stripes over Bleu de France paint, and gave everyday motorists a masterclass in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":35591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,108],"class_list":["post-35590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}