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The Renault 4CV (French: quatre chevaux, pronounced as if spelled quat'chevaux) [5] is a car produced by the French company Renault from August 1947 through July 1961. [2] It is a four-door economy car with its engine mounted in the rear and driving the rear wheels .
Commercialized in 1947 with the Renault 4CV, the first version of the "engine Billancourt" was a 0.8 L (760 cc) of 17 hp (13 kW) SAE. In 1950, a 21 hp (15 kW) SAE version was fitted to the Renault 4CV Grand Luxe, produced only in 1950.
The B family (for the Billancourt factory where it was produced, [1] also referred to as the Billancourt engine) was a cast-iron overhead valve three-bearing crankshaft inline-four designed in the mid-1940s for the 4CV and also used in the Renault 4 and Dauphine:
Renault 4CV Belgium AA. 208D (1945–1948) R.4080 (1948 ... or Duster platform (Russia). Also known as the Renault Samsung XM3 in South Korea. Austral: 2022 2022 ...
The Renault 4, or R4 in short (and 4L, pronounced "Quatrelle", in French), is an economy car built by the French company Renault from 1961 to 1994. Although the Renault 4 was first marketed as a short estate or wagon, its minimal rear overhang, and its top-hinged, single-piece tail-gate made it the world's first mass-produced hatchback car, as well as the first time Renault had used a front ...
Renault considered the name Corvette [22] for its new model, but to avoid a conflict with the recently launched Chevrolet Corvette [23] instead chose a name that reinforced the importance of the project's predecessor, the 4CV, to France's postwar industrial rebirth.
The French government allocated the economy car market, US Marshall Plan aid, US production equipment and supplies of steel, to newly nationalised Renault to produce its Renault 4CV. [39] The "Plan Pons" came to an end in 1949. [40] Postwar French roads were very different from pre-war ones. Horse-drawn vehicles had re-appeared in large numbers ...
Offered in both coupe and sedan bodystyles, it replaced the Hino Renault, which was the Renault 4CV manufactured by Hino for Japan. It was adapted into a small pickup truck called the Hino Briska , but used a front engine and rear drive powertrain, while the Contessa used a rear engine and rear drive setup.