3 left. The smaller parking light is what did me in, I thought all of these had 4 sealed beams like the regular ones did. But, against all odds, Renault learned a lot out of that deal. I hear a lot of people tell how awful these were, but hers stayed on the road for years and years. Working slowly on deciphering the fuel injection computer too. This sure looks like the nicest one that I have ever seen, how about you? It only had 42,000. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like. Tow it to dealer. BFG TA Radials had good traction, lasted longer and the rounder sidewalls eliminated the bent rim problem. – don’t buy that Renaults are unreliable. Missed updates will be sent once your connection has been reestablished. Adding a good ’87 GTA back to my collection would be a pleasure. The reduced clearance also collected mud and stones on the inside of the rear wheels, sometimes lodging the stones between the tire and suspension arm, gouging the tire. Once, we tried welding the front mount solid, resulting in a noisier ride (think race car). I tried to buy the parts over here in NA to convert the front end of mine to this. 1985 Renault Encore 20-page Original Car Sales Brochure Catalog - 11 Alliance ... 3 left. Parts availability? Railways, mostly. After dining, we tried to start the Renault. i need a steering sector for it but cant even get a picture of what it looks like i got a jest of it was wondering if anybody on her can help me out in any way by sending me in the right direction to find one. MADE in U.S.A Kenosha Wi. /2door. It would run like a bat out of Hell. I always get compliments when I take the car out for a spin. The original 15″ alloy wheels have been fitted with new tires, but a new center cap will need to be sourced for the front passenger-side wheel. I really miss my two GTAs, and seriously wonder if anyone ever made a better-handling FWD car …. Though it did force us to try new positions that we’d have never thought of trying in the bedroom… . I’ve seen exactly one in the last decade. Renault seems now to replicate that. It was hardly that simple. Starts right up. Other than that, they are quite similar. The more things change the more they stay the same. Altough we never owned one, I grew up in Kenosha and these cars do bring back memories of their time. The stock Alliance wheel bearings couldn’t handle the wide (for the time) Michelin Sport XGT VR50 tires and the torque was a bit much for the Renault motor mounts. I do have a serious weak spot for the Eagle Premier and Dodge Monaco, though. That was hard to beat. That being said, they were much more nicely trimmed than the spartan Japanese econoboxes of the period and roomy and comfortable for what they were. – you say Renaults aren’t reliable and were bought only because they were cheap, that the French didn’t buy them anyway and that they had other ways of getting around, but they sold over 5 million R5 and the R9 (Alliance) was one of the most popular in Europe. The only problem I had was trying to find a driver side window regulator. For one, they learned not to be dismissive of another company’s technology – just because it’s the object of their affections in whatever corporate-rape is planned. Just love the car! It replicated what Volkswagen had done when the Rabbit was upgraded into the GTI. Curbside Newsstand: GM Planning A Corvette EV Crossover – Sound Familiar? Good luck! After all they were sold in AMC dealers, and whatever AMC’s reputation was at the time, Americans’ idea of “Ren-awlt” started at silly (“Le Car”) and went down from there (Dauphine). but would also lead to the fracture of the mount support bracket. 2nd GTA not running. thanx Frankie. Someone around my town has one of these that is identical to the black one in the pictures, except that it has stock wheels. All the factory aero kit parts were made by Zender of Germany and the wheels were from Ronal. Renault GTA. It was described as "dandy little sports car" and a "pocket rocket" defined as a low-priced "car based on high production economy but with emphasis placed on appearance, performance and handling." The GTA, at the very least, had only Renault badging, not AMC. The back seat was a torture chamber, largely due to insufficient leg room. Thought when I first saw them maybe 20 years ago that they were fairly original. Run-of-the-mill Alliances were known for having a nice interior, but the GTA kicks things up a bit with exclusive sport seats and a steering wheel from the Renault 5 Turbo. 1987 Renault Alliance GTA 12-page Car Sales Brochure Catalog - Convertible. What they lacked was innovation – both product and marketing; the problem seemed to be institutional as the very structure of Nissan punished innovation. It continued to be a fun car to drive (except in snow, where it was the worst I’ve ever driven) right up until I gave it away in 2006. I could get that car past 80 on the highway — it just took forever to get there. I suspect that by the time the GTA arrived, maybe AMC was trying a bit too hard to separate it from the Alliance’s falling star? The new owner said he’d send pictures when it was done.   |   Always thought the body style was as nice or better than other small cars at that time . $239.00. The seller has performed extensive maintenance including a new timing belt, water pump, suspension components, brakes, and a host of additional items. As everyone knows, Renault brought them some econoboxes to sell, but they also shared fuel injection technology that doubled the mileage of their midsized cars and let them get close to 40mpg, allowing them to soldier on for almost another decade. I think the interior was very quirky for the era, and it seemed much nicer inside than my mom’s Corolla. I too owned a brand new GTA back in late ’86 and I put 190K on it with no mechanical issues whatsoever except that it ate wheel bearings and motor mounts. “Total sales topped 208,000 that year, but things quickly went downhill as competitors raised their game and stabilizing fuel prices softened the small car market. Rust didn’t seem to be the issue with these that it was on other cars, certainly I never saw rusty ones like I did Civics of the same era. Please enable JavaScript to engage in the discussion on this site. the alliance was pure luxury, french soft ride, great reclining seats, great stereo. But tall back-seat passengers always had to sit with legs splayed uncomfortably wide around the front seat back. After they were killed off, BHPH lots had them as ‘get a newer used car for less!’, and were all over low income areas, until they died off in the 90s. The AMC cars and engines were outdated but Renault electronic ignition allowed them to double their gas mileage and soldier on for another 20 years. I owned two GTAs, first a sedan and then a convertible too (pictured together below). No chance. I’ve always been a fan of Renaults here in Europe…. Get it in front of 160+ million buyers. Congratulations! The acknowledged best car man in the world and he somehow had nothing to do with this? I still have the original sales booklet. I remember having a conversation with a guy I knew in 1988 who was stunned to hear that they were no longer being made (to be fair, the Chrysler takeover killed them off, but they were on their way out to begin with, as illustrated by the above sales figure for 1987). item 8 1984-1987 Renault Alliance & GTA new convertible top hydraulic pump motor 8 - 1984-1987 Renault Alliance & GTA new convertible top hydraulic pump motor.   |   Jioe Wagner in Cincinnati ohio PS.. Linda is in the convertible…. Your real-time updates could not be connected. At the moment I can’t lay my hands on my file full of old test reports — the C&D writer memorably said “someone in charge obviously said this sucker’s gonna handle” — but I did find this online (http://articles.mcall.com/1986-12-20/news/2545925_1_european-renault-performance-cars-sporty): “The four-wheel independent suspension system – gas-charged MacPherson struts and shocks up front and torsion bars in the rear, large front and rear stabilizer bars and increased-rate springs – has been retuned for handling. The original tires were Michelin XGT 195/50 15’s which were good for about 15k if you drove carefully. He drove the hell out of it and I thought it was OK to drive and almost up to the standards of the Datsun’s and Toyota’s I was used to driving. Back when these were a thing, I was working at a quickie lube. Cars Affected: 240,000. And for some reason I also remember these being a feature of a Jeep model (maybe the Cherokee?) Chrysler didn’t. The GTA was the high performance version of the North American-market Renault Alliance, itself a derivative of the Renault 9 and 11, that was built and sold by AMC. Back in ’72, I had also chosen to get rid of my ’66 Mustang GT, for similar reasons. A buddy of mine bought a new Encore in 86 or so. I sold it for 500 dollars to a guy who had a motor. Never really wanted them while they were here and after thinking about them I still don’t. Buyers were attracted to its small-on-the- outside, big-and-comfortable-on-the-inside design. Refuses to start. Very. The problem is that most people who bought a cheapo car like the Alliance did not do routine maintenance and the dealer mechanics knew little about them. This Renault Alliance GTA convertible is a largely original example with 131k miles. 1987 Renault Jeep AMC Car Brochure - Alliance Convertible GTA Wrangler Eagle. Your email address will not be published. Bought a GTA new in ’87. When I remember the days when Hornets, Gremlins, Pacers, and Matadors would stream out of it. People who know about the car are impressed to see one. For whatever reason, year over year and between the 3 engines, oil filter threads seemed to be constantly in flux between SAE & metric. Maintenance… The bane of any vehicle. I live in southern ontario and I need to know the nearest location I can get the car serviced. In fact, the only Alliance I’ve seen recently is this one, which I found in a local junkyard. Renault Alliance convertible 1987 GTA 2,0L WOW! Rented an Alliance at Newark airport in the fall of 1984, pick it up Saturday afternoon returned it Sunday night. Here’s a down-on-his-luck George C. Scott in an Alliance GTA commercial: One of these is for sale locally, I thought it was a neat little car and now I know much more about it. Renault Alliance Club Passion 17,803 views. Nearly every one that i saw die an early death was for lack of maintenence, they where considered by most to be a disposable car i guess. After your description of the handling, I really want to drive one now. I knew people who bought new Alliances. When Renault came along, AMC was essentially bankrupt, Jeeps and other SUVs weren’t selling and they had no cash to update their car line, which were ’60s era technology. 5speed. And while I appreciate the fact that the GTA was semantically not an Alliance, its relationship to it was all-too obvious. Renault Alliance convertible "Sebring Red" 1.7 DL du 01/07/1986 & Renault GTA convertible "Sebring Red" 2.0L du 01/04/1987 Write Review and Win $200 + + Review + Sell Car. . Except for the front wheel bearings and front motor mounts. 7 bent valves, one broken off, a holed piston where the head of the broken valve sliced through the crown like it was butter. Similarly, the Yugo wasn’t a terrible car and in the hands of an enthusiast owner- many were purchased by Italian car enthusiasts who wished they could get still get a Fiat, could be very reliable. Broken front motor mounts were a regular event. Total sales topped  208,000 that year, but things quickly went downhill as competitors raised their game and stabilizing fuel prices softened the small car market. That was the last straw. ... Official AMC Renault video : Renault GTA vs competitors - 1987 - Duration: 2:12. MotorWeek | Retro Review: '87 Renault Alliance GTA - YouTube I always loved the american built GTA…. Well, yes…on level ground things went slowly, and up even the mildest grade you were looking at 0 to 60 probably sometime late next month. If today we wonder why anyone would have bought an Alliance, well, just consider its competition. Sort By. Absolutely loved the way it handled on dry pavement. It had to be the most forgettable car I’ve ever driven. I was eating up the curvy road behind her and BAM..Timing belt broke, Goodby.Id did not know i was a required maint issue.   |   What gets overlooked is that Renault revamped the Cherokee which really was the vehicle that started the whole SUV craze in my opinion. The GTA is not a bad-looking little thing. You're the high bidder. Thank you, if anyone is interested please email me. Renault has had their failures but I give them more credit in every circumstance than you seem to do. It was manufactured during 1986 and early 1987 as a limited production, specialty model. There are 2 Renault cars, from $1,500. It had only 9,000 miles on the odometer. I had the pleasure and suprise of trading for a 1987 GTA in Get a ticket red n 1993. Parts are getting harder to find but there is a network out there for them. Consequences: The seller has performed extensive maintenance including a new timing belt, water pump, suspension components, brakes, and a host of additional items. See more ideas about renault, alliance, gta. Renault used to make periodic assaults on the American market. THE COOLANT ESCAPING INTO THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT COULDCONTACT THE DRIVER’S FEET AND INJURE THE DRIVER. Whatever cars are purchased for in the Continent, they aren’t, or weren’t, bought to be relied upon. I got it at an auction where is it was alleged to have had bad wheel bearings and commanded a lower price. It is good for 120 mph and 0-62 in 8.5 seconds… Like the experience of many GTA owners here the ride quality & handling are excellent and with such unique character the car can be forgiven for it’s less than perfect plastics …. I rather think it was probably the latter, as this is the fate that befalls most ‘also ran’ imports. Tercels, Corollas, Chevettes, Sentras, Escorts, Omnirizons, etc, etc, were all in the same bottom feeder market and survived whether maintained or not. REPLACE THE HEATER CORE WITH A CORE OF DIFFERENT DESIGN WHICH WILL NOT RUPTURE AND LEAK IN THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT. Two came from Ohio, one from St. Louis, one from Tennessee, another from Rochester, NY and mine from NJ. – you can’t describe Renault’s pulling out of NA as abject failure without pointing out that they were under severe pressure in their home market from Peugeot and others and their Chairman was assassinated, causing huge uncertainty. Very 80’s slang, btw. I read an article on the net (probably here) and I saw it in the opposite lane and realized what it was immediately. The perceived reliability problems of AMC were not due to the car, at least in my case. Bidding will advance immediately to $. http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bnc/cto/3232001028.html. So I read up a little (on the “Alliance” anyway) and found that: a) AMC had a record profit in ’79, but Jeep sales crashed in the oil crunch and they had little else still worth selling, so cash flow crunched. I thought they were ugly, and still do. It turns heads. Modele rare et unique. Twelve months of misery. I would encourage anyone who is interested in them to visit the following site: http://www.renaultclub.us/ for more information. Most reliable cars I`ve owned behind my 2dr. The wheels on the black on above are the stock ones for the GTA. The manual suggested the timing belt be replaced at 80k. Aimed at the MPG-conscious lower end of the market, the Alliance was a minor hit. However, my Alliance routinely got 40 mpg on the highway, and 35 in town. The 1984 Alliance lineup included new convertible and three- and five-door Encore hatchback models. It could keep up on the bumpers of the Cavalier Z-24’s with 6 cylinders and you could run a hill in 5th gear at 35 miles per hour and pick up speed without hardly hitting the gas, not to mention I got 34 miles per gallon. They didn’t hold up, which was good as the average Frenchman had other ways of getting around. They were slow in an era when there was no excuse. Many of them were in scrapyards by then, and Chrysler had to place a new heater core and other components on the driver seat with direction to replace everything should the car ever be returned to the road. Too bad, I’m sure I could have found it on the internet and the car looks much more sporty with the smaller Euro spec bumpers. Required fields are marked *. The white convertible is a sweet little car. It’s still an ongoing project (from 2008…) but that’s interestingly my engine in the article. There isn’t one Toyota MR2, VW GTI, Firebird 5.0, or Honda anything that I didn’t see in my rearview mirror in my GTA when I was young and foolish and used to race people that wanted it. The Civic was highly rated and priced to match. The Renault Owners Club of North America is a great resource for these cars. In an era of European and Japanese hot hatches, this GTA remains a bit of an oddity, with its sedan body and fuzzy national identity. The only shortcoming was the monovalve fuel injection with unequal length intake runners. And thus it was that from Kenosha, Wisconsin emerged the AMC-built Renault Alliance. They were basically rubber glued to two pieces of metal, which made for a smooth ride but gave up the ghost every 40K or so. Curbside Outtake: 1993 Olds Cutlass Ciera With Big(ish) Trailer, Engine Tech 101: How Displacement Per Cylinder Affects Torque and Horsepower. This 1987 Renault Alliance GTA for sale on Hemmings.com comes not only with a spare GTA, but also an Alliance convertible (pictured above). These were the type of cars that upper middle class parents would buy as the school run car because you could get a very luxurious top spec model that was still easy to drive and park. As you can see, AMC converted some Alliance four-doors into limousines as a publicity stunt. (Current owners may disagree.) The GTA was available only as a two-door sedan or convertible painted Sebring Red, Olympic White, Classic Black or Metallic Sterling. Your email address will not be published.

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