Renault Suprastella

The Renault Suprastella was a large luxury car that Renault introduced in the spring of 1938 to replace the Nervastella, whose mechanical layout it inherited. The name means star above, following the stella names Renault had given its larger models since the early 1930s. It was meant mainly as a big limousine, with cabriolet and coupe versions also listed, and it was often sold as a bare chassis for coachbuilders; a typical car was about 5.6 metres long. A flathead straight-eight of 5,448 cc gave 110 PS, and prices in 1938 ran from 84,000 to 102,000 francs. It was Renault last car of this kind, and a long Franay cabriolet limousine served Marshal Pétain in 1943, General de Gaulle in 1944 and later President Auriol.