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Renault R4 - the first maintenance-free car in Europe

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Created on September 1, 1961

Reading time 7min

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H. Bübler

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Renault 4 L (1961) - von vorne und hinten gesehen

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Renault 4 (1961) - Gegenüberstellung von Standard-Modell und L

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Renault 4 L (1961) - im Gelände

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Renault 4 L (1961) - mit drittem Seitenfenster

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Renault 4 L (1961) - Kofferraum

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Renault 4 L (1961) – Interieur der Luxusversion

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Renault 4 L (1964) - Cockpit des 4 L mit mehr Komfort, wie zum Beispiel einer zweiten Sonnenblende

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Renault 4 L (1962) - vordere Sitzbank

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Renault 4 (1961) - dünnwandige Rückbank

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Renault 4 L (1964) - Blick in den Motorraum

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Renault 4 L (1961) – in Deutschland auch als "Renault R4" bezeichnet

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Renault 4 L (1961) - unscheinbar, aber mit vielen technischen Qualitäten versehen

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Renault 4 L (1961) - Schnittzeichnung

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Renault 4 L (1962) - Durchsichtszeichnung

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Renault 4 (1961) - Cockpit der Normalvariante

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Renault 3 (1961) - mit kleinerem 3-CV-Motor, nur in Frankreich so angeboten

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Renault 4 (1961) – die schlichte Normalvariante

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Renault 4 (1962) – der Normalversion fehlt das dritte Seitenfenster

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Renault 4 (1961) – Fahrerplatz in der Normalvariante

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Renault 4 L (1961) - Variabilität im Kofferraum

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Renault 4 (1962) – die Modellpalette 1962 mit Dauphine, 4, Floride, 4 L und Ondine

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Renault 4 L (1962) - Blick in den Motorraum

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Renault 4 (1961) - Abmessungen und technische Darstellung

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Renault 4 (1961) - vorne L, hinten Standard

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Summary

Soon after the Renault R4 was launched, the magazine 'hobby' received an R4L for a test drive. The journalist was pleasantly surprised by the quality of what was on offer, and was particularly taken aback by its freedom from wading and low fuel consumption. This report reproduces the original wording of the test report at the time and is supplemented by many historical illustrations of the early R4 vehicles and an original brochure from the time.

This article contains the following chapters

The French love it
No consideration for current car fashion
Over hill and dale
An 'airy' car
Safety is not neglected
Unusually economical
Test results

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Our acquaintance began under an indescribably blue sky, in shimmering heat, in a barren landscape - the home of wild bulls and horses, the Camargue. It stood on the white, dusty sand of the 'mas', as the Provençals call a farmstead down there, and was prosaically calledthe 'Renault 4 L'. We looked at it with our somewhat oversaturated affluent bourgeois eyes: slightly arrogant (we are used to 'better things'), from above (everything is pretty plain and simple) and prejudiced (what else can they offer us?). R4 L was initially as brittle and foreign to us as its surroundings, its charms wanted to be experienced in the truest sense of the word, like those of the landscape in which we spent three days.

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