Renault established operations in North America at the end of the 1940s, at
the time when the company was state-owned. The Alliance model was voted
"European Car of the Year" in 1983. After the second oil crisis in the late
70s, the Renault car range became poorly adapted to the US demand because of
the upmarket tendency on the US market. Renault sold
AMC to the American car maker Chrysler in 1987 and pulled out of the US market
in 1988.
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