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The Renault Etoile Filante (Shooting Star) was Renault's first and only land speed record streamliner car ever produced.
In 1954 the turbine manufacturer Turbomeca proposed Renault making a gas turbine technology engineered car for exalting the benefits of it and for trying to break the a speed record. The car was tested in the wind tunnel between 1954 and 1955. In 1956, Jean Hébert and a Renault Team went off to the Bonneville Slat flats in Utah The car reached an average speed of 192.5 mph (309.8 km/h) and reached the world record for turbine engined cars. This was also to promote sales from Renault's newest car in the USA the Dauphine The Etoile Filante later appeared at motor shows all over the world. A fine Norev 1:43 scale model.
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