Grégoire Sport
| Grégoire | |
|---|---|
 Grégoire Sport from 1956
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| Sports | |
| Sales designation: | Sports |
| Production period: | 1956-1952 |
| Class : | upper middle class |
| Body versions : | Coupé , convertible |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 2.2 liters (92 kW) |
| Length: | 4500 mm |
| Width: | 1750 mm |
| Height: | 1360 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 2400 mm |
| Empty weight : | 1200 kg |
| Previous model | Hotchkiss-Grégoire |
The Grégoire Sport is a French passenger car.
history
The French front-wheel drive pioneer Jean-Albert Grégoire designed a large front-wheel drive passenger car after the Second World War . Hotchkiss took over the project and marketed the vehicles as Hotchkiss-Grégoire until 1954 . Grégoire developed this project further and offered the vehicles under his name from 1956. Up to the end of production in 1962, around ten to fifteen copies were made.
A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse .
Chassis and brakes
The engine was mounted in the front of the chassis and drove the front wheels. From 1961, disc brakes were used on the front wheels.
engine
It was powered by a water-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine with a displacement of 2188 cm³ which, with the help of a compressor, produced 125 hp .
body
Ateliers Henri Chapron made the cabriolet bodies. One example was a coupé , also with a Chapron body.
mass and weight
With a wheelbase of 2400 mm and a track width of 1440 mm (front) or 1320 mm (rear), the vehicle length was 4500 mm, the vehicle width 1750 mm and the vehicle height 1360 mm. The weight of the vehicles was given as 1200 kg.
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- GN Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present , Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 (English)
- René Bellu: Toutes les Voitures Françaises 1957 , Histoire & Collections, Paris 1997
