Renault Novaquatre

The Renault Novaquatre is a car that Renault presented in the autumn of 1937 and built until 1940. It was an economy version of the Primaquatre that combined the body of the small Celtaquatre with the 2,383 cc four-cylinder water-cooled engine of the larger Primaquatre, with a listed output of 48 hp against the Primaquatre's 52 hp and a much lower fuel consumption. A top speed of 110 km/h was claimed at first and 100 km/h after a smaller 1,813 cc engine replaced the original in late 1939, along with hydraulic brakes in place of cable brakes. When the Celtaquatre ended in April 1938 the Novaquatre was lengthened to a wheelbase of 2,830 mm. Very few were made: in April 1940 only 35 of the 716 cars the factory built were Novaquatres, and production ended soon after, before the German invasion.