Renault Juvaquatre

The Renault Juvaquatre is a small family car that Renault produced between 1937 and 1960, although production stopped or slowed to a trickle during the war years. Louis Renault conceived it in 1936 as a small, affordable car for the 6CV tax class, below the Primaquatre and Celtaquatre, aimed at lower-income buyers, and it was heavily inspired by the German Opel Olympia. It was shown at the 1937 Paris Motor Show ahead of volume production the next year. The sedan was built until 1948, when the plant turned to the new Renault 4CV, and restarted for about five months in the second half of 1952. A van based station wagon body joined the range in 1950, and later versions from 1956 were called the Renault Dauphinoise; it stayed in production until the Renault 4 replaced it in 1960.