American Motors sold this as the Renault Alliance, and Car and Driver named it a 10Best in 1983.
Lead trim: 1.1 C / TC (1,108 cc, 48 PS) · up to 113 hp
Renault 9 / 111981–1989
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FactAmerican Motors sold this as the Renault Alliance, and Car and Driver named it a 10Best in 1983.
The Renault 9 and Renault 11 are small family cars produced by Renault from 1981 to 1989 in saloon (Renault 9) and hatchback (Renault 11) configurations, both styled by Robert Opron. Variants were manufactured by American Motors Corporation as the Renault Alliance and Renault Encore for the North American market, and the car was produced in Turkey until 2000. The models use a transverse front-wheel drive engine configuration and feature four-wheel independent suspension, and they were chosen as the European Car of the Year in 1982 as well as Car of the Year by Motor Trend and one of the 10Best by Car and Driver in 1983. The Renault 9 was introduced in October 1981 as a four-door saloon (in right-hand drive form for the UK in March 1982), and marketing of the 11 started at the beginning of 1983 as a three- or five-door hatchback. At launch both cars used Renault's ageing Cléon-Fonte overhead valve engines in 1.1 or 1.4 litre format, except the 9 Turbo and the 11 Turbo hot hatch, which used the turbocharged engine from the Renault 5; the newer F-type engine developed in collaboration with Volvo appeared from the end of 1983 in twin-carburetted 1,721 cc guise, powering the upmarket GTX, GTE, TXE and TXE Electronic versions. There were three facelifts for the 9 and two for the 11, with a more aerodynamic Phase 2 in 1987.
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Trims & Figures
11 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 C / TC (1,108 cc, 48 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.1 L | 47 hp | 59 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.2 GTC (1,237 cc, 55 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.2 L | 54 hp | 65 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.4 GTL (1,397 cc, 68 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.4 L | 67 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.4 GTS / TSE (1,397 cc, 72 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.4 L | 71 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.4 TL / GTL / TLE (1,397 cc, 60 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.4 L | 59 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.4 Turbo (1,397 cc, 115 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.4 L | 113 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.6 TD / GTD / TDE diesel (1,595 cc, 55 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.6 L | 54 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.7 GTE (1,721 cc, 95 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.7 L | 94 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.7 GTX (1,721 cc, 90 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.7 L | 89 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.7 TX (1,721 cc, 75 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.7 L | 74 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1.7 TXE (1,721 cc, 82 PS) | 1981–1989 | 1.7 L | 81 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
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