The Matra-Bonnet Djet V was originally designed by René Bonnet and produced by Matra after their takeover in 1964, it was the world’s first production mid-engined road car. This pioneering design set the stage for future sports cars and remains a celebrated innovation. The Djet V, introduced in 1965, featured several upgrades from the original… Read More Parbleu: 1965 Matra Bonnet DJet V
We haven’t published many of these cars, but when we do we always have doubts as this car has been (and still is) always called differently, using more or less the same words. René Bonnet Djet, Matra Bonnet Djet, Matra Sports Djet, Matra Sports Jet are the variants with which this model is called: we,… Read More Many names: 1964 Matra Djet 5
We have published, a couple of years ago, another Le Mans like this one which was in worse conditions than this: it has a beautiful color and a shining paint. The color is indeed beautiful and the overall conditions look quite good: more than the other one we’ve found, this one has also the… Read More Finned french: 1964 René Bonnet Le Mans
The Djet has always been the “bad girl” among french cars of the sixties: that’s also true that France didn’t gave birth to a many sports car but this is for sure the most famous of them after, of course, the Alpine 110. And, like the A110, this was an expensive car: not very powerful… Read More Yellow bird: 1966 Matra-Bonnet Djet 5
