Renault Midliner

The Renault Midliner was a medium-heavy truck for distribution traffic from Renault Trucks, available as a flatbed and as a chassis and last built at the Blainville-sur-Orne plant. It carried the four-man club cab and began as a model of the Renault subsidiary Saviem, as the Saviem JP and JN in the lighter version and the Saviem HB for heavier payloads. After Saviem and Berliet merged in 1978 into Renault Véhicules Industriels it was sold at home as the Renault Saviem JP/JN and GF/GR/GB, the Saviem name vanished after a 1979 facelift, and from 1991 the series was officially the Renault Midliner. Mack Trucks sold it from 1979 as the Mack Midliner. Built from 1975 to 2000, it began with swirl-chamber diesel engines and later gained turbochargers, direct injection, anti-lock brakes, airbags and common-rail diesels, and the Renault Midlum replaced it in 2000.