1898年圣诞节的前一天,法国人路易·雷诺下了个大胆的赌注,让他自己设计的微型汽车沿着陡峭的勒皮克街,爬上巴黎的蒙马特高地。这辆车自重250公斤,装的是1.75马力的发动机。从当时汽车工业的技术水平看,雷诺此举近乎发疯。然而,他成功了。接着,雷诺的汽车工厂立刻迎来第一批12个客户。其实,雷诺的工厂当时不过是位于巴黎西南郊比昂古尔的一个棚屋里的小工厂。1869年,雷诺的父亲建起一个经营布 The day before Christmas 1898, the Frenchman Louis Reno made a bold bet to get his own miniature car up the steep Lepex streets and climb up the Montmartre in Paris. The car weighs 250 kg, fitted with 1.75 horsepower engine. From the technical level of the automotive industry at the time, Renault move almost crazy. However, he succeeded. Then, Renault’s auto factory immediately ushered in the first batch of 12 customers. In fact, Renault’s factory was nothing but a small factory in a shack in Bungur, in the south west of Paris. In 1869, Renault’s father built a business cloth