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Pope Francis Gets Hip With His New Ride: a 20-Year-Old Renault

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Pope Francis has a new car. He’s been seen driving it around the Vatican, and it’s not the kind of bullet-proof Popemobile previous pontiffs used. This one is 20-year-old used Renault utility car with 170,000 miles on it that a priest donated to Francis.

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