Renault Suprastella

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Suprastella
Production period: 1938-1939
Class : Upper class
Body versions : Pullman limousine , limousine , cabriolet , coupe
Engines: Otto engine :
5.4 liters (81 kW)
Length: 5080-5600 mm
Width: 1750 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 3210-3720 mm
Empty weight : Chassis: 1430 kg
Previous model Renault Nervastella

The Renault Suprastella was a passenger car model of the interwar period of Renault . The type codes were Type ABM and Type BDP .

description

On March 30, 1938, Renault announced the introduction of this model. The predecessor was the Renault Nervastella , from which the type code was also adopted. Production ended in July 1939 without a successor.

Type ABM 8

The water-cooled eight - cylinder engine with a bore of 85 mm and a stroke of 120 mm made 110 hp from a displacement of 5447 cm³ . The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

The wheelbase was either 321 cm or 372 cm. The vehicle dimensions of this version are not recorded. There were six parallelogram vents in the sides of the bonnet . The grille was rounded on the sides and divided horizontally. The front bumper was one piece and straight. The headlights were integrated into the fenders .

Between April 1938 and July 1939, 24 vehicles with the short wheelbase were built: 7 sedans with six seats, 7 convertibles with two side windows, 8 convertibles with four side windows and 2 coupés .

In addition, Renault manufactured ten vehicles with the long wheelbase as an eight-seater Pullman sedan between April 1938 and July 1938 . In August 1938, these vehicles were retrospectively given the type code Type BDP 1 .

Type BDP 1

The national approval authority approved this version on July 25, 1938. With a wheelbase of 372 cm and a track width of 145.4 cm, the vehicle was 508 cm or 509 cm long and 175 cm wide. The turning circle was given as 16.5 meters. The chassis weighed 1430 kg. By June 1939, 30 Pullman limousines with factory bodies and one chassis had been built. It remains unclear whether the first ten copies are included in these numbers or not.

Unique pieces by Saoutchik and Franay

The coachbuilder Saoutchik built a two-door, four- to five-seater convertible on the chassis of the Suprastella for the later general and war hero Marie-Pierre Kœnig . The specialty of his vehicle were the " pantograph " sliding doors patented by Saoutchik , in which the door is supported and guided by struts. When opening it is only pulled out sideways until it protrudes far enough from the body. Then it is pulled parallel to it forwards or backwards until it completely releases the door opening. When closed, the special functionality can only be recognized by the unusual position of the door handle in the middle of the optical longitudinal axis of the door leaf.

A 6500 mm long version of the Suprastella, with an extended wheelbase of 3720 mm, became one of the most photographed cars in France in the 1940s. This was a transformable converted by the well-known body manufacturer Franay, i.e. a four-door convertible without a fixed frame for the side windows (as in the convertible sedan ). The heavy hood is completely retractable; the weather protection is completed by retractable side windows, which distinguish Transformables from Torpedo or Phaeton . The vehicle was delivered to the French government in 1943 after it was decided that Marshal Pétain needed a new car. The car had high ground clearance, and a special feature was the automatic metal step grille that protruded from under the body when the door was opened.

The vehicle is historically known from the day after the Battle of Paris , when Charles de Gaulle drove through the streets of Paris on August 26, 1944, standing upright in the back of the car and accompanied by the war hero Lattre de Tassigny . The car also served in the Fourth Republic under President Vincent Auriol .

Prices

The following prices (in francs ) have survived:

execution July 1938 May 29, 1939
Type BDP 1 Pullman saloon with eight seats 102,000 117,000
Type ABM 8 sedan with six seats ? 105,000
Type ABM 8 Cabriolet with two side windows ? 105,000
Type ABM 8 Cabriolet with four side windows ? 109,000
Type ABM 8 Coupé ? ?
Conversion factor from the then franc to today's euro 0.48640 0.45458

literature

  • Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 6: 1934-1934 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-902667-08-6 , pp. 140-177 (French).
  • René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 145-151 (French).
  • Ulrich Bethscheider-Kieser: Renault. Under the sign of the rhombus. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-613-01658-3 , p. 19.
  • Serge Bellu: La Carrosserie Française: you style au design. Verlag ETAI, 2007, ISBN 978-27268-8716-5 . (French)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 6: 1934-1934 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-902667-08-6 (French).
  2. ^ A b René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 (French).
  3. ↑ Bellu: La Carrosserie Française: you style au design. P. 151
  4. ↑ Picture by de Gaulle and Suprastella trip through Paris
  5. ↑ Information on the conversion of francs from old years into euros (English, accessed on October 5, 2014)