Renault Express & Fiat Fiorino!

(Renault Express was featured in the superhit movie "Ronin" starring Robert De Niro. And in the film, there were several Renault Express cars that took a beating. You can catch the car scene here.)

Renault Express and Fiat Fiorino are two box vans that were popular in Norway in the year 2000. Only a few of them were sold because they never really caught on in Norway. In 2000, they had a price tag of 70,000 NOK, which was considered a cheap car on the market back then. I stumbled upon this car in a newspaper called "Arbeiderbladet" when I was in my last year of elementary school. Just imagine driving this car like a feisty Frenchman with a loud exhaust system, or jazz it up with tinted windows, cool wheels, and a wunderbaum air freshener like a true Norwegian countryside car enthusiast!

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