Classic Car Catalogue

Renault 1956

4 CV
Dauphine - nowy model
Frégate - modernizacja
Domaine - nowy model
300 kg - ost. rok
Dauphinoise - nowy model
Colorale - ost. rok
L'Etoile Filante - prototyp

France

Dauphine został oficjalnie zaprezentowany w marcu na Salonie Genewskim, jednak wcześniej, w lutym odbyła się na Korsyce nieoficjalna premiera prasowa, na którą zaproszono stu dziennikarzy z całego świata. Mieli oni okazję odbyć wycieczkę po wyspie za kierownicą nowego modelu. Ta dość nietypowa forma promocji została poparta intensywną reklamą w prasie, radiu i telewizji.
Pamiętający jeszcze czasy przedwojennego Juvaquatre furgon 300 kg został zmodernizowany, otrzymując jednostkę napędową Dauphine i nazywa się teraz Dauphinoise.
Zakończyła się produkcja modeli Colorale. Ich miejsce zajęły Domaine i Manoir - kombi na bazie Frégate.
5 września kierowany przez Jeana Hérbert prototyp L'Etoile Filante (Spadająca Gwiazda) napędzany silnikiem turbinowym na słonym jeziorze Bonneville osiągnął stałą prędkość 308,9 km/h.
Firma wyprodukowała 261.870 samochodów. (motor 66/30-7)


The Dauphine debuted on March 6, at Paris' Palais de Chaillot with over twenty thousand people attending, two days before its official introduction at the 1956 Salon International de l'Auto in Geneva. The Dauphine uses a version of the 4CV's water-cooled Ventoux engine with capacity increased from 760 cc to 845 cc, and power increased from 19 to 32 bhp.
Facelifted Frégate is powered by the new 2141 cc Etendard engine, which produce 77 bhp. A new, luxurious Grand Pavois trim package was launched the same year. An estate variant, the Domaine replaced the Colorale and is powered by the 2141 cc Etendard engine.
On 5 September 1956, the whistle of the powerful turbine ricocheted round the salt lake of Bonneville in the USA. A few instants later, the world speed reCord lay in tatters. The Étoile Filante had reached 306.9 km/h over a kilometre, and 308.85 km/h over 5 km.

The Renault range comprises the little 4 c.v. and 845 c.c. Dauphine, both rear-engined, and the larger Frégate of conventional layout. The only important modification is the fitting of a normal four-speed gear box with direct top speed (no built-in overdrive) to the Frégate series (2-litre Caravelle, 2.14-litre Frégate and Grand Pavois). The 4 c.v, is shown in various forms from the cheap "affaires" with painted bumpers and simplified trim, to the more luxurious "sport" model, and there is a Dauphine taxi with sliding division, handsomely two-toned in red and black.
(Paris report)

 

4 CV

4 CV berline (R 1062) (4-cyl. 748 cc 21 ch)
4 CV Grand Luxe decouvrable - ost. rok

 

Dauphine

(4 cyl, 845 cc, 32 ch)
  berline (wb: 2267 mm)


Renault Dauphine Saloon, Model R1090. Announced in France in the autumn of 1955 it is also assembled in the UK, at Acton, from the Summer of 1956. It is a rear-engined four-door four-seater powered by a bored-out 845-cc 30-bhp derivative of the 4CV engine and feature a unitary body-cum-chassis, three-speed gearbox and all-independent suspension.

 

Frégate and Domaine

Frégate '56 - discontinued
 2 litres berline (R 1100) (R4 cyl, 1997 cc, 65 ch)
 Amairal berline (R 1101) (R4, 2141 cc, 77 ch)
 Grand Pavois berline (R 1101) (R4, 2141 cc, 77 ch)
 Domaine break (R 1101) (R4, 2141 cc, 77 ch)
Frégate '57 (R4 cyl, 2141 cc, 77 ch) - new model
 Caravelle berline (R 1102)
 Frégate berline (R 1103)
 Grand Pavois berline (R 1103)
 Domaine break (R 1103)


Frégate Caravelle model '57


Frégate Convertible by Letourneur & Marchand at the Motor Show in Paris.


Domaine


Domaine model '57

 

Dauphinoise

300 kg break 4 CV (R 2100) - end
Dauphinoise break 5 CV (R 2101) - modernizacja 300 kg break z silnikiem Dauphine (R4 cyl, 845 cc, 26 KM)


Dauphinoise break.
 

Colorale

(4 cyl, 1997 cc, 60 KM) - end
 Prairie break
 Prairie 4x4 break
 Savane break
 Savane 4x4Fourgonette
 Pick-up 11 CV
 Plateau baché
 Chassis-Cabine
 Tout Terrain

 

l'Étoile Filante

 


L'Etoile Filante (motor 56/33-1,11, 47-10, 51-2, 57/12-11)

 

 

           
           

 

 

 

Victories:
1st Rajd Korsyki   Dauphine Thirion
         

F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship entries:

  Mille Miglia 18-29.04.56 (round 3) Results:
#   chassis   Entrant: gen. category class
4 4CV   Fendoni / Moroni   dnf T/GT750 -    
10 4CV   Sala / Vigliani   dnf T/GT750 -    
12 4CV   Turri   dnf T/GT750 -    
16 4CV   Vinatier   dnf T/GT750 -    
17 4CV   Poletti / Ferrier   178th T/GT750 25th T750 22nd
21 4CV   Carle / Janoray   156th T/GT750 15th T750 13th
22 4CV   Persoglio / Persoglio   dnf T/GT750 -    
28 4CV   Garnache / Parat   dnf T/GT750 -    
30 4CV   de la Rue / Hartley   176th T/GT750 23rd T750 20th
31 4CV   Vial / Panuel   dnf T/GT750 -    
33 4CV   Monraisse / Féret   116th T/GT750 4th T750 4th
42 4CV   de Gaspari / Romanini   dnf T/GT750 -    
51 4CV   Chardin / Garraud   118th T/GT750 5th T750 5th
61 Dauphine   Trintignant / Drouot   105th T/GT1.0 3rd T1.0 2nd
62 Dauphine   Frère   110th T/GT1.0 5th T1.0 4th
68 Dauphine   Rédélé / Pons   dnf T/GT1.0 -    
71 Dauphine   Cahier / Ferrier   154th T/GT1.0 10th T1.0 8th
73 Dauphine   Rosier   107th T/GT1.0 4th T1.0 3rd
75 Dauphine   Thirion   82nd T/GT1.0 2nd T1.0 1st
77 Dauphine   Auriach / Auriach   169th T/GT1.0 11th T1.0 9th
149 4CV   Gesmier   dns S750 -    


Renault Dauphine, engine: L4 OHV 845 cm³ (Bernard Cahier / Nadège Ferrier) at Mille Miglia.