Renault 4, known as the 4L, is a small economy car produced by the French automaker Renault between 1961 and 1994.
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16 Facts About Renault 4
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Inearly 2020, the 33-year production run of the Renault 4 was counted as the seventeenth most long-lived single generation car in history.
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Renault 4 was able to review the advantages and disadvantages of the 2CV design.
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Renault 4 shared many design traits with the older Citroen 2CV to allow it to fulfill the same role as a versatile utility car, especially for people in rural France and other parts of the world with poor roads.
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Renault 4 took the opportunity to introduce a feature which subsequently became mainstream.
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Renault 4 designed a “sealed-for-life” cooling system, supported by a small expansion tank on the right side of the engine bay.
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On this point Renault 4 quickly acknowledged their error and cars produced from 1962 featured synchromesh on all three ratios.
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Renault 4 was a basic car with a simple dashboard and sliding windows.
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The Renault 4 is intermediate between the small utility vehicle and the supermini design .
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The Renault 4 was the last French automobile to be sold with drum brakes on all four wheels, after the Citroen 2CV received disc brakes in 1981.
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Outmoded production methods, more advanced competition and the reasons outlined above meant that the Renault 4's days were numbered, at least as a mainstream product.
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In 2021, it was announced that the Renault 4 would be reintroduced during the 2020s as the "4ever", a compact crossover cousin of the forthcoming all-electric Renault 5 EV.
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The Renault 4 had certain advantages in its high torque and a suspension and ground-clearance that gave it go-anywhere capabilities.
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Renault 4 Sinpar was entered in the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1979 and 1980 by Bernard and Claude Marreau, coming fifth in 1979 and in third in 1980.
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Renault 4 continued to feature in many long distance rallies after production ceased, such as in 2001 in the London-Sahara-London rally and the 2008 Mongol Rally.
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Renault 4 GTL was homologated in Group A Jacky Cesbron raced one in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1993 and the Tour de Corse in 1991.
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