Renault Type PL

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Type PL
Sales designation: Renault 15 CV
Production period: 1926-1927
Class : upper middle class
Body versions : Limousine , landaulet
Engines: Gasoline engine :
3.2 liters
Length: 4900 mm
Width: 1700 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 3680 mm
Empty weight : 1900 kg

The Renault Type PL was a passenger car model of the interwar period of Renault . It was also called 15 CV .

description

The national licensing authority granted its approval on May 17, 1926. It was the first Renault model with a six-cylinder engine of this displacement. Nevertheless, it was only a variant of the Renault Type PG with a longer wheelbase and had neither a predecessor nor a successor. Production ended in 1927.

The water-cooled six - cylinder engine with 75 mm bore and 120 mm stroke had a displacement of 3181 cm³ . The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The maximum speed was specified as 46 km / h to 57 km / h, depending on the gear ratio.

With a wheelbase of 368 cm and a track width of 144 cm, the vehicle was 490 cm long and 170 cm wide. The turning circle was given as 13 meters. The chassis weighed 1100 kg, the complete vehicle 1900 kg. The choice was limousine and landaulet .

The chassis cost 49,000 francs in November 1926.

literature

  • Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 5: 1924-1933 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-902667-06-X , pp. 61-89 (French).
  • René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 84-86 (French).

Web links

  • Photo (accessed September 21, 2014)

Individual evidence

  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).
  2. ^ A b Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 5: 1924-1933 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-902667-06-X (French).