French Mag Auto Plus Raided for Leaking Renault New Car Details

Such a big fuss over such a little event. Spy car photographer Hans Lehmann has been doing this for decades. So what? It?s only a new Renault - and that's a little event!!!

Think the French Authorities should be more concerned with more serious issues. Like corruption of their Nationals in the French government of even the European Parliament, which is, I understand, quite rife, instead of chasing car photos!

What, photos of a pretty much ready for market model? Technical details divulged? Top secrets released to the competition??

L'Auto Plus has been doing this sort of thing for, as far as since i can remember reading the magazine over a decade or so.

The employee may have been guilty but the behaviour of the authorites is infringing on the human rights of the magazine, which is unacceptable, and may have been used to discover who that employee is in the first place.

Indeed it is, and publishing that confidential information makes the magazine a part of the crime. As usual they defend themselves by saying "they are just doing their job of informing the public" but this is totally unacceptable. This is not a political secret people must know. This is about business, industry and commerce, and nobody, even the media don't have the right to publish confidential industrial information.

?Complaint to authorities? is not sued the magazine. The pictures above were published AFTER that date!

Or even another Renault for a very long time...? :)

I say good got Renault, to put their foot down. Otherwise whats next give the technical specs to ever car company. thats what give the car commpanies the edge.

When you do manage to see it at the Paris show, you'll probably wonder what all the fuss was about.

"When Auto Plus published pictures and details of a new model not due to launch for another three years"

And what did I write?

The article above also mentions (third paragraph) that the French magazine published photos of this car in April 2008, which sounds about right to me.

I?m not sure what the (confusing and misleading) second paragraph of the article above is talking about. Nothing big was ever reported 3 or so years ago. I doubt the car?s design would have been finalized 3 years ago anyway. Otherwise suspect the Authorities would have pounced a lot sooner!

Where does the article say the magazine was sued in August 2007? Also, think there are "traitors" in all car companies but only Renault behaves this way

?Complaint to authorities? is not sued the magazine. The pictures above were published AFTER that date!

Picture looks familiar? Note second paragraph of that article as well as date of article!

Also: check out this link to Autoblog dated April 29, 2008 http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/29/renault-megane-leaked-in-french-mag/

Picture looks familiar? Note latter half of FIRST paragraph and date of article!

You originally wrote:

?you talk as if those pics were published last night, but according to the info it was leaked a cpl of years earlier?

I think I have answer that point. If you would like to disprove those photos then kindly show me the photos that were shown those 3 years ago, and I tell you it was NOT the one shown above in the article, which you insist it is?

-- umm, NO!