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Here is the translation of a report of R4 50th anniversairy from Autoscout24 (German website offering cars). I hope that the translation is ok and you like it. At the end I have posted the link to the original wbsite (w/ phots):
Marie-Chantale
On the middle name Marie-Chantale "the development engineers the boxy small car christened with a big mouth because he was not at the will of the Renault boss Pierre Dreyfus could be beautiful like the big sister Dauphine, but in a pragmatic form and under the sober title R4 an unprecedented revolution was triggered under the people's car.
In fact, the R4 modified with a large tailgate, four doors, high roof body, front wheel drive, independent suspension and suspension comfort exactly half a century, the Renault brand as well as the entire small-car world. No wonder that the revolutionary was also a symbol of the 1968 generation, such as the Citroen 2CV. Citroen boss Pierre Bercot even led by two years a plagiarism case against Renault, but in vain.
Meanwhile, the avant-garde R4 paved the small family cars of the modern compact way.Without the charm of the fashionable Mini, the durability of the VW Beetle or the permeability of the Citroen canard, for it was but with extra French flair and timeless functionality by 1992, delivered eight million Renault 4 as a sedan and van Fourgonnette, of which over 900,000 in Germany.
Sensation at the IAA
As successor to the wildly popular in Germany rear-engine model Renault 4 CV R4 celebrated its world debut at the IAA in Frankfurt 1961 - and was the first import premiere ever in the center of the then already the world's most important auto show.Not even the same time revealed "new class" of the BMW was able to take the unconventional young French sensation.
The same practical and comfortable sedan with a hatchback and the steep water-cooled 0.75-liter four-cylinder engine put those signs in front of the still dominant rear-engine class that pointed in the future, but in this country and provoked extreme reactions. "This car will be in Germany never sell," summed up reviews - and were thus initially not entirely wrong.
Modest start
After all, unlike in France, the start of R4 was in the home of the Volkswagen Beetle was muted, the concept of the Renault 4 was the Germans too avant-garde. Only in the late '60s the R4 enthusiastic youthful protesters, cordsamtene professors, individuals and young families, across the Rhine so much that he celebrated in Germany sensational four percent market share and 86,000 registrations in one year. The boom carried by the R4 can share the Certificate of Renault in Germany until 1970 climbing to over seven percent, not much less than last year Opel scored.
Very different in France. Here's the Renault celebrated with turret circuit, three-speed gearbox, frugal steel tube frame and variable interior seats a brilliant debut with gala performances at the Palais de Chaillot and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Several versions
This is the same in several versions: as R4, R4 and R4 Super L with three windows, as a minimally-equipped Renault 3 with a tiny 0.6-liter engine (which however did not come to Germany) and as a station wagon and panel van Fourgonnette. Not only that, the smallest Renault was one of the first volume models, based on a modular system platform strategy. The body was bolted to the frame, therefore, could be implemented quickly and cost more versions. Such was the 1964 Sinpar 4x4-wheel drive and a pickup in the offer, Plein Air 1969, followed an open beach and fun car with no doors and a year later, the rodeo with a separate plastic body as a hunting and recreational vehicles.
Visually and technically, however, changed the Renault 4 sedan during the 31-year production remained unchanged. Only more new colors, fashionable special models, minimal power and equipment modifications, and the growing number of production sites in last 16 countries on three continents proclaimed to the annual rings of the change of decades.
Special model-dance
The start of the round dance special model made in spring 1963, the "Parisienne", the body sides were then decorated with a chic woven cane or tartan and conquered the hearts of almost all women. Even more successful was introduced in 1976, Renault 4 Safari in colorful paint, and with seats in the style of a hammock. His finale celebrated the cult model with special models, in December 1988 in Germany with the Renault 4 Salü - the last sold Renault 4 GTL TV star Günter Jauch earned - and four years later in France with the edition of "Bye-bye."
Almost unique among the ingenious solution of the so-called front-mid-engine principle for the Renault 4 was: The four-cylinder engine was in favor of an optimal weight distribution and handling characteristics according problematic shifted far toward the center of the car to the rear. Together with an almost legendary reliability, this was even the basis for amazing motorsport success of actually completely unathletischen and underpowered R4, which was once just on highways 110 to 120 km / h fast.
Racing career
His racing debut was in 1962 the small car in the Rally of Monte Carlo and the "East African Safari", where he passed for at least 12,000 kilometers in fifth place in its class, the finish line. A very special sporting triumph of Renault won 17 years later in desert marathon Paris-Dakar. With a four-wheel drive R4 Sinpar the brothers Bernhard and Claude Marreau ereichten behind a thoroughbred racing car as a second area of the car category of the "Lac Rose", the destination of the 9,000-mile ordeal. The following year, the Marreaus was achieved with a strengthened to nearly 130 hp R4 again a very good result in the Dakar Rally, the third place car of the standings.
The departure from the international motorsport scene celebrated the first Frenchman in 2000. On numerous rounds of the WRC drove the Portuguese Antonio Pinto dos Santos and Rodriguez da Silva, with its near-standard Group N-R4 GTL in the hearts of all fans.Although it had last been Oldie 180,000 km on the clock, they almost always occupied seats in the front half of the participants. A goodbye that was as brilliantly designed as the ultimate reliability test, which had handled the compact Frenchman shortly after the start of production.
Hardness Test
1962, the two New Zealanders Adrian Blackburn and Bill Rowntree fought their tour Sidney-Paris by jungle, rivers, deserts and barren mountains in 26 countries and over a distance of 43,000 kilometers. Except for 40 flat tires, the team noted not only serious accident in his travel book, not only for those days cars a record-breaking results. And the beginning of a unique global success story.
The Renault 4 is now conquering the slopes of the world like no other road cars. First, with further expedition and reliability runs as a 13,000-mile tour through the South American Andes (1962), an expedition of Tierra del Fuego to Alaska (1965) with rises of up to 5,200 meters, a 30,000-mile crossing of the African continent (1968) and from 1966 with the Renault-sponsored trip project "Routes du Monde" (streets of the world) for young people. This year ranged 150-200 candidates their travel plans, of which Renault supported up to eight expeditions to the provision of a Renault fourth
R4 HISTORY
1956: Renault's Director General Pierre Dreyfus, the project proposes a small car with good ride comfort
1958: In the development number 350 R4 makes the decision to construct the production version of the enault. Later, the project runs to 112, the engineers christen the new "Marie-Chantal.
1961: Media presentation of the R4 in the Camargue in June and July. Mass production of the R3 and R4 is running on 3 August in Paris-Billancourt on. On 21 September, the R4 its world premiere at the IAA as a successor to the Renault 4 CV rear drive. On 4October gala performance at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. On 6 October debut at the Paris Salon, along with the Transportation Fourgonnette.
1962: Sales start in Germany, production run of R3. New top version, the R4 Super
1963: Presentation of the special model and version R4 R4 Parisienne export with luxurious seat cushions
1964: Launch of Sinpar 4 x4
1965: The R4 is officially renamed Renault in fourth Detailed technical modifications
1966: The Renault 4 is Produktionsmillonär
1967: Facelift with new dashboard and bigger brake drums
1968: With 368 566 units reached the Renault-4 production its historical Jahresbestwert. Introduction of a fully synchronized four-speed transmission
1969: The Renault 4 is Plein Air version with a folding doors without introduced
1970: debut of the Renault 4 Rodeo with plastic body. With 86,000 registrations of the Renault 4 in Germany achieved a market share of 4.03 percent
1971: The electrical system is of six-switched to twelve-volt operation. The Renault 4 hits the three-million production mark
1973: The German versions of the Renault gain strength from 26 to 34 hp and now reach a maximum speed of 120 instead of 110 km / h
1975: Facelift, inter alia grille with black plastic, and from 26 to 34 liter tank capacity enlarged
1976: Renault 4 Safari with upholstery-style hammock
1977: First French car, the Renault 4, the production breaks sound barrier of five million units. Extensive Facelift, inter alia with the introduction of dual-circuit brake system, and halogen headlamps
1978: New top version of Renault 4 GTL. Kataphoresebad in the production process to prevent corrosion
I had to cut it a bit as 10.000 characters are maximum. Sorry
END
LINK: http://ww2.autoscout24.de/bericht/50-jahre-renault-4/marie-chantale/44455/213729/
Marie-Chantale
On the middle name Marie-Chantale "the development engineers the boxy small car christened with a big mouth because he was not at the will of the Renault boss Pierre Dreyfus could be beautiful like the big sister Dauphine, but in a pragmatic form and under the sober title R4 an unprecedented revolution was triggered under the people's car.
In fact, the R4 modified with a large tailgate, four doors, high roof body, front wheel drive, independent suspension and suspension comfort exactly half a century, the Renault brand as well as the entire small-car world. No wonder that the revolutionary was also a symbol of the 1968 generation, such as the Citroen 2CV. Citroen boss Pierre Bercot even led by two years a plagiarism case against Renault, but in vain.
Meanwhile, the avant-garde R4 paved the small family cars of the modern compact way.Without the charm of the fashionable Mini, the durability of the VW Beetle or the permeability of the Citroen canard, for it was but with extra French flair and timeless functionality by 1992, delivered eight million Renault 4 as a sedan and van Fourgonnette, of which over 900,000 in Germany.
Sensation at the IAA
As successor to the wildly popular in Germany rear-engine model Renault 4 CV R4 celebrated its world debut at the IAA in Frankfurt 1961 - and was the first import premiere ever in the center of the then already the world's most important auto show.Not even the same time revealed "new class" of the BMW was able to take the unconventional young French sensation.
The same practical and comfortable sedan with a hatchback and the steep water-cooled 0.75-liter four-cylinder engine put those signs in front of the still dominant rear-engine class that pointed in the future, but in this country and provoked extreme reactions. "This car will be in Germany never sell," summed up reviews - and were thus initially not entirely wrong.
Modest start
After all, unlike in France, the start of R4 was in the home of the Volkswagen Beetle was muted, the concept of the Renault 4 was the Germans too avant-garde. Only in the late '60s the R4 enthusiastic youthful protesters, cordsamtene professors, individuals and young families, across the Rhine so much that he celebrated in Germany sensational four percent market share and 86,000 registrations in one year. The boom carried by the R4 can share the Certificate of Renault in Germany until 1970 climbing to over seven percent, not much less than last year Opel scored.
Very different in France. Here's the Renault celebrated with turret circuit, three-speed gearbox, frugal steel tube frame and variable interior seats a brilliant debut with gala performances at the Palais de Chaillot and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Several versions
This is the same in several versions: as R4, R4 and R4 Super L with three windows, as a minimally-equipped Renault 3 with a tiny 0.6-liter engine (which however did not come to Germany) and as a station wagon and panel van Fourgonnette. Not only that, the smallest Renault was one of the first volume models, based on a modular system platform strategy. The body was bolted to the frame, therefore, could be implemented quickly and cost more versions. Such was the 1964 Sinpar 4x4-wheel drive and a pickup in the offer, Plein Air 1969, followed an open beach and fun car with no doors and a year later, the rodeo with a separate plastic body as a hunting and recreational vehicles.
Visually and technically, however, changed the Renault 4 sedan during the 31-year production remained unchanged. Only more new colors, fashionable special models, minimal power and equipment modifications, and the growing number of production sites in last 16 countries on three continents proclaimed to the annual rings of the change of decades.
Special model-dance
The start of the round dance special model made in spring 1963, the "Parisienne", the body sides were then decorated with a chic woven cane or tartan and conquered the hearts of almost all women. Even more successful was introduced in 1976, Renault 4 Safari in colorful paint, and with seats in the style of a hammock. His finale celebrated the cult model with special models, in December 1988 in Germany with the Renault 4 Salü - the last sold Renault 4 GTL TV star Günter Jauch earned - and four years later in France with the edition of "Bye-bye."
Almost unique among the ingenious solution of the so-called front-mid-engine principle for the Renault 4 was: The four-cylinder engine was in favor of an optimal weight distribution and handling characteristics according problematic shifted far toward the center of the car to the rear. Together with an almost legendary reliability, this was even the basis for amazing motorsport success of actually completely unathletischen and underpowered R4, which was once just on highways 110 to 120 km / h fast.
Racing career
His racing debut was in 1962 the small car in the Rally of Monte Carlo and the "East African Safari", where he passed for at least 12,000 kilometers in fifth place in its class, the finish line. A very special sporting triumph of Renault won 17 years later in desert marathon Paris-Dakar. With a four-wheel drive R4 Sinpar the brothers Bernhard and Claude Marreau ereichten behind a thoroughbred racing car as a second area of the car category of the "Lac Rose", the destination of the 9,000-mile ordeal. The following year, the Marreaus was achieved with a strengthened to nearly 130 hp R4 again a very good result in the Dakar Rally, the third place car of the standings.
The departure from the international motorsport scene celebrated the first Frenchman in 2000. On numerous rounds of the WRC drove the Portuguese Antonio Pinto dos Santos and Rodriguez da Silva, with its near-standard Group N-R4 GTL in the hearts of all fans.Although it had last been Oldie 180,000 km on the clock, they almost always occupied seats in the front half of the participants. A goodbye that was as brilliantly designed as the ultimate reliability test, which had handled the compact Frenchman shortly after the start of production.
Hardness Test
1962, the two New Zealanders Adrian Blackburn and Bill Rowntree fought their tour Sidney-Paris by jungle, rivers, deserts and barren mountains in 26 countries and over a distance of 43,000 kilometers. Except for 40 flat tires, the team noted not only serious accident in his travel book, not only for those days cars a record-breaking results. And the beginning of a unique global success story.
The Renault 4 is now conquering the slopes of the world like no other road cars. First, with further expedition and reliability runs as a 13,000-mile tour through the South American Andes (1962), an expedition of Tierra del Fuego to Alaska (1965) with rises of up to 5,200 meters, a 30,000-mile crossing of the African continent (1968) and from 1966 with the Renault-sponsored trip project "Routes du Monde" (streets of the world) for young people. This year ranged 150-200 candidates their travel plans, of which Renault supported up to eight expeditions to the provision of a Renault fourth
R4 HISTORY
1956: Renault's Director General Pierre Dreyfus, the project proposes a small car with good ride comfort
1958: In the development number 350 R4 makes the decision to construct the production version of the enault. Later, the project runs to 112, the engineers christen the new "Marie-Chantal.
1961: Media presentation of the R4 in the Camargue in June and July. Mass production of the R3 and R4 is running on 3 August in Paris-Billancourt on. On 21 September, the R4 its world premiere at the IAA as a successor to the Renault 4 CV rear drive. On 4October gala performance at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. On 6 October debut at the Paris Salon, along with the Transportation Fourgonnette.
1962: Sales start in Germany, production run of R3. New top version, the R4 Super
1963: Presentation of the special model and version R4 R4 Parisienne export with luxurious seat cushions
1964: Launch of Sinpar 4 x4
1965: The R4 is officially renamed Renault in fourth Detailed technical modifications
1966: The Renault 4 is Produktionsmillonär
1967: Facelift with new dashboard and bigger brake drums
1968: With 368 566 units reached the Renault-4 production its historical Jahresbestwert. Introduction of a fully synchronized four-speed transmission
1969: The Renault 4 is Plein Air version with a folding doors without introduced
1970: debut of the Renault 4 Rodeo with plastic body. With 86,000 registrations of the Renault 4 in Germany achieved a market share of 4.03 percent
1971: The electrical system is of six-switched to twelve-volt operation. The Renault 4 hits the three-million production mark
1973: The German versions of the Renault gain strength from 26 to 34 hp and now reach a maximum speed of 120 instead of 110 km / h
1975: Facelift, inter alia grille with black plastic, and from 26 to 34 liter tank capacity enlarged
1976: Renault 4 Safari with upholstery-style hammock
1977: First French car, the Renault 4, the production breaks sound barrier of five million units. Extensive Facelift, inter alia with the introduction of dual-circuit brake system, and halogen headlamps
1978: New top version of Renault 4 GTL. Kataphoresebad in the production process to prevent corrosion
I had to cut it a bit as 10.000 characters are maximum. Sorry
END
LINK: http://ww2.autoscout24.de/bericht/50-jahre-renault-4/marie-chantale/44455/213729/