Renault Type K
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Renault Type K (1902)
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Type K | |
Production period: | 1902 |
Class : | race car |
Body versions : | Phaeton |
Engines: |
Gasoline engines : 3.1-4.9 liters (14.7-22 kW) |
Length: | 3450 mm |
Width: | 1500 mm |
Height: | |
Wheelbase : | 2450 mm |
Empty weight : | 600 kg |
successor | Renault Type O |
The Renault Type K was an early racing car model from Renault . It was only available with a light, two-seater structure.
description
This was the first Renault model with a four-cylinder engine . On June 23, 1902, the national licensing authority granted the license. Production ended in the same year. The Renault Type O was the successor.
A water-cooled four - cylinder engine with a 100 to 110 mm bore and 100 to 130 mm stroke produced 20 to 30 hp from a displacement of 3143 to 4942 cm³ . The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The maximum speed was specified with up to 125 km / h.
The vehicle was 345 cm long and 150 cm wide with a wheelbase of 245 cm. The empty weight was 600 kg.
motor race
Marcel Renault won the car race from Paris to Vienna with one of these vehicles in 1902 .
literature
- Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Voitures Particulières. Tome 1: 1899-1905. Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1977, pp. 57-77.
- René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 16 (French).
- Author collective: Renault. 100 years of motoring progress.
Web links
- Histomobile (accessed August 8, 2013)
- Renault Classic (accessed August 8, 2013)
- voitures.renault.free.fr (French, accessed August 30, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Voitures Particulières. Tome 1: 1899-1905. Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1977.
- ^ René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 (French).