Who doesn’t love a great fart joke? I do know the French do. Nicely, at the least I believe they do, as a result of there’s no means this wasn’t intentional (please ignore the very fact that they communicate French). It has come to my consideration that certainly one of the Renault Avantime’s engine decisions, a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder motor, was codenamed the F4Rt. The goddamn automobile is powered by the fart motor, and that’s in some way not the weirdest factor it has going for it.
Because it seems, the F4Rt isn’t the one goofy engine code Renault employed within the early 2000s. A fast Wikipedia rabbit gap dive on the “Renault F-Sort engine” web page turns up one other code: F4P. That’s proper, the 1.8-liter FAP motor powered the Renault Laguna from 1998 to 2005. What a lovely factor. Then again, the FART powered the Avantime, Vel Satis, Espace, Laguna, Scénic and Mégane from 2002 to 2017 when the motor was sadly discontinued.
I do know, that is deeply unimportant info. Each the F4Rt and F4P are motors which might be lengthy out of manufacturing on vehicles we by no means acquired within the U.S., however c’mon. Fart and Fap? It felt like Christmas when I discovered this out. It really works for Halloween, too.
In all probability, the French people who labored at Renault within the late ‘90s and early 2000s in all probability had no concept they did this. I imply, why would they? They’re French. Nonetheless, I’d similar to to think about they planted this little present within the engine bays of a handful of their vehicles, understanding that in the future a shithead like me would see it. I’m eternally grateful that occurred.