Talbot-Matra Murena S 1983 2.0

Hi everyone!

A friend of mine told me that we, French people, don’t know how to build a good sport car. It would be extremely easy to remind him that Bugatti is French. It would have been quite easy to reminds him the history of some manufacturers like Alpine (and Renault generally speaking) or even Peugeot/Citroën in the rally field. But if you take the time to do some research, you will be surprised to find a lot of French masterpieces. For example, we can talk of the car named ‘’La Jamais Contente’’, the first car to reach 100kph in history in 1899, and it was an electric car!

But today I want to talk about another forgotten French sport car, the car of my grandfather, the Talbot-Matra Murena S 1983:


This car is not really powerful, but it has an amazing level of comfort, it has a mid-positioned I4 engine, a RWD transmission, it weight nothing, and it doesn’t have any electronic assistance (and it has 3 seats, because why not?). Believe me, this car is extremely fun to drive in real life!
You can find here a comparison between the real Murena S and the replica:

source 1, source 2, source 3

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I hope you will like this car!