Advertising Last completed movie pages 1981 Talbot Matra Murena 1.6Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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◊ 2006-01-10 11:45 |
white coupe |
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◊ 2006-01-10 11:48 |
Matra Murena, not very common I think .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2006-01-10 12:39 |
Talbot Matra Murena, to be precise. |
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◊ 2006-01-10 13:59 |
Matra was not used as a make? I always heard Matra Murena and Matra Bagheera, but it may be right that the first one is Talbo and the other one Simca... |
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◊ 2006-01-10 19:02 |
I too thought that Matra was at least for sometime a seperate make. They where taken over by Talbot at a later stage.... -- Last edit: 2006-01-10 19:02:58 |
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◊ 2006-01-10 19:15 |
We should keep Matra as independant make for previous models (Djet, M530)... the Bagheera and Murena were sold under Simca and Talbot |
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◊ 2007-09-07 22:15 |
Renault purchased Matra in the early 1980s, & dropped the Murena as it overlapped with the existing range. |
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◊ 2007-09-07 23:21 |
I do not know if it is Renault that dropped the model, but indeed in 1983 the factory that produced the Murena started to build the Renault Espace. |
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◊ 2007-12-21 10:53 |
A couple of corrections here. The Murena was designed and built by Matra Automobile. PSA (i.e. Peugeot, the owners of the Talbot name) had a minority shareholding in that company but the majority share in Matra Automobile was owned by Matra itself. Matra was never owned by Chrysler or it's French arm, Simca, though it had a commercial understanding with Simca between 1969/1970 (I think) and 1978/9, when Chrysler sold it's European operations to PSA. The relationship between Matra and PSA did not prosper. PSA were struggling financially in the early 1980s and the Murena was not selling as well as had been hoped (or deserved). The relationship came to an end when Matra Automobile took its P18 prototype to Renault, it having been rejected by PSA, and bought back PSA's shareholding. The P18 was developed with Renault and became the Renault Espace. Matra Automobile continued to build all variants of the Esapce until the current generation of the car. The Murena ceased production in 1983, after 10,680 examples had been made. Many still survive to this day, thanks to the chassis having been given effective protection against corrsion by the use of hot-dip galvanisation. Matra Automobile ceased to exist in 2003, when production of it's last car, the Renault Avantime, ceased. It was a sad end to a company which, first as Engins Matra then as Matra Sports, not only produced a string of innovative cars but also won the F1 World Championship (in 1969) and the Le Mans 24 hours race (in 1972, 1973 and 1974). The engineering and design side of Matra Automobile was, however, purchased by Pininfarina and continues to operate. |
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