One Lap of the Web: French car weirdness and Sebring domination

-- In this episode of "How to Perform Simple Tasks to and Around Your French City Car," we learn to refill the windshield washer fluid in the Renault Twingo. First, you pull a cover hidden in the thin front grille against one of the headlights. It dangles downward like a weak loogie. Then, you do the same on the other side. Pull two hefty plastic tabs in the apertures you have just unveiled, which push the hood down. The washer fluid tank is at the bottom of a deep and dark recess at the very left corner, The announcer jabs excitedly with his finger. Some Woody Allen lookalikes swoop down to gawk inquisitively. The most maddening part of this entire operation is that the front hood is permanently attached to the rest of the car -- it can't be removed, only turned to the left or right. This is precisely the sort of impractical, convoluted thinking that caused Renault (and Peugeot, and Citro

By Blake Z. Rong