During our first outing in CDMX we seek to arrange our bearings. This is a city that embraces the car, with some nostalgia for the past. The Renault Dauphine was only produced from 1956-67 as an elegant, economical choice for the French middle-classes. As it turned out, it went out of fashion only months before the Paris riots of 1968. It is likely that Guy Debord himself sat in the driver seat of more than one version. In any case, this particular Dauphine lies at rest in Coyoacan, the site of an Aztec village where cathedrals were built by the Spaniards over the graves of ancient warriors. Cortez allegedly lived with his mistress in a nearby casa.
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