Quick, agile, light weighted and well balanced Renault R8 started taking over from the Dauphine as the squad's workhorse in 1962. The Dauphine came up with quite a few qualities, but it was prone in capsizing with ease and this drawback could never be completed corrected.
Quintessentially Renault from the 40s until the mid 60s
the R8 was powered by a rear monted engine.
windowpanes on front doors were lowered with the conventional lever
while rear ones came up with panes going sideways by sliding.
In 1965, the deployment squad adds the souped up Gordini variant. Alongside with the standard stablemates, Gordinis were also used as part of top brass escort by clearing the motorcades' itinerary at upstream level.
Sporting the "magpie" livery, the R8 also displays a small reproduction of the coats of arms of Paris on the front doors. Coats of arms were reminders at where the vehicles were actually based
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