Renault Type HG

Renault
	Renault Type HG Torpedo (1920)
Type HG
Sales designation:	Renault 18 CV
Production period:	1920-1921
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	Touring cars , limousines , roadsters
Engines:	Otto engine : ; 4.5 liters
Length:	4900-5050 mm
Width:	1700-1760 mm
Height:
Wheelbase :	3632-3750 mm
Empty weight :	2000 kg
Previous model	Renault Type FS
successor	Renault Type IQ

The Renault Type HG was a passenger car model of the interwar period of Renault . It was also called 18 CV .

description

The national licensing authority granted its approval on July 20, 1920. The predecessor was the Renault Type FS and the successor to the Renault Type IQ .

The water-cooled four - cylinder engine with 95 mm bore and 160 mm stroke had a displacement of 4536 cm³ . The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The maximum speed was specified as 63 km / h to 87 km / h, depending on the gear ratio.

With a wheelbase of either 363.2 cm or 375 cm and a track width of 150 cm, the vehicle was either 490 cm or 505 cm long and between 170 cm and 176 cm wide. The turning circle was specified as 14 to 15 meters. The chassis weighed 1365 kg, the complete vehicle 2000 kg. Are Narrated Torpedo , sedan and roadster .

At first the chassis cost 25,000 francs . Later figures are 34,000 francs for the chassis, 43,000 francs for a torpedo and 49,000 for a coupé sedan.

literature

Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 4: 1919-1923 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-902667-05-1 , pp. 50-73 (French).
René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 70-71 (French).

Web links

Commons : Renault Type HG - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Histomobile (accessed September 19, 2014)
voitures.renault.free.fr (French, accessed September 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 (French).
^ ^A ^b Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 4: 1919-1923 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-902667-05-1 (French).

[Toutes-1] A ^b René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 (French).

[Dossiers4-2] A ^b Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 4: 1919-1923 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-902667-05-1 (French).