The head gasket blew consantly.
The clutch was replaced twice.
Unstoppable rust around the rear suspension.
Quirky little shed on wheels.
Fantastic practicality, flat floor and removable rear seat.
New car designers should use this car as an example of good practice.
Where are they all now? I miss this car so much.
They were good little cars. I bought one back in 1975. It had much the same mechanics as the Renault 4, including the gear lever sticking out of the centre fascia. The body was a better, more modern shape, with wind up windows instead of the Renault 4 sliding ones.
It had typical French soft suspension and could bounce in and out of potholes without problems. Very versatile, could carry just about anything, and cheap to run.
By modern standards it would fail every safety crash test, but I liked it - even the funny gear lever (it was front wheel drive, but the gearbox was in front of the engine, behind the radiator, and the gearshift control rod ran over the top of the engine, and straight through the bulkhead into the passenger cab - and still managed to have a light precise shift movement!)
The 6 has indeed all, but vanished off the earth. Amazingly, just a few days after I - for some reason - realized this, I saw a concourse-restored 6 near the German border, in the proximity of Nijmegen. It looked - and probably was - better than any 6 that ever left the factory, in eye-watering white and mint chrome-work. My mother used to have one in the '70's - I'm now "finishing off" the last Renault she owned, a 5 TR. Great little car, too!
I have always wanted a 6 managed to buy one last Aug (04) lots of problems and was really disappointed with it I replaced the chassis and sorted all the niggling things out on it, and now we love it.
The car is our every day vehicle and is gradually getting repainted all round,getting parts is very hard will go to France in the summer to find new wings and doors, great car everyone should have one, who designed the rear suspension though?
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It was my father second car and I almost learned to drive with that car.An amazing thing is that although fitted with a manual gearbox it was very easy to change gear, up and down, without using the clutch, save for the first speed.
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