Celebrities are always a good way to draw attention to cars.
Now the U.K. arm of French carmaker Renault has made a short video about one very well-known driver of its Twizy electric car.
That would be none other than Sir Stirling Moss, one of the most famous racing drivers of all time.
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Moss won the 1955 Mille Miglia, not to mention 16 individual Grand Prix races, and he is likely the greatest driver who never won a Formula 1 World Championship.
Renault's clever 2-minute video intercuts black-and-white historic footage of Moss's races in the Fifties and Sixties with modern interview clips.
![Sir Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton discuss their race cars Sir Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton discuss their race cars](https://images.hgmsites.net/lrg/sir-stirling-moss-and-lewis-hamilton-discuss-their-race-cars_100430313_l.jpg)
Sir Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton discuss their race cars
Moss, now 85, describes using his Twizy around London, where he lives.
(Although it's not mentioned, as a battery-electric car, the Twizy is exempt from that city's stiff congestion charge for entering the central zone of the city.)
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Then the real fun begins: Using either authentic audio or cleverly re-created lines, the video shows Moss zooming around London in the Twizy as if he were in a race.
(Britons of a certain age will recognize the resonant, ever-so-slightly pompous tones of what used to be called "BBC English"--a long-vanished standard now.)
A 30-second "pit stop," complete with countdown clock, is revealed to be Moss picking up his morning newspaper.
![Sir Stirling Moss in his Renault Twizy electric car, London, May 2015 Sir Stirling Moss in his Renault Twizy electric car, London, May 2015](https://images.hgmsites.net/lrg/sir-stirling-moss-in-his-renault-twizy-electric-car-london-may-2015_100511206_l.jpg)
Sir Stirling Moss in his Renault Twizy electric car, London, May 2015
Moss says he likes the car--his sole vehicle now, out of 184 racing cars he drove during his career.
"You see, to me," Moss says, "the Twizy's a fun car to drive."
"Fast to me is pretty quick," he notes at the start of the film.
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Of course, the racing side of Moss soon asserts itself.
"I'd like some more power," he admits with a smile. "You know, that would be nice."
Renault: You have been officially notified. More power for the Twizy, please.
[hat tip: Radd N]
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