Renault Type SO

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Type SO
Sales designation: Renault 8 CV
Production period: 1928-1929
Class : Lower middle class
Body versions : Landaulet
Engines: Otto engine :
1.5 liters
Length: 3700 mm
Width: 1450-1550 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 2650 mm
Empty weight : 1350 kg

The Renault Type SO was a passenger car model of the interwar period of Renault . It was also called 8 CV .

description

The national licensing authority granted its approval on June 27, 1928. The model was a variant of the Renault Monasix . There was no predecessor or successor. Production ended in 1929.

The water-cooled six - cylinder engine with a 58 mm bore and 93 mm stroke had a displacement of 1474 cm³ . The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The maximum speed was specified as 40 km / h to 53 km / h, depending on the gear ratio.

With a wheelbase of 265 cm and a track width of 130 cm, the vehicle was 370 cm long and either 145 cm or 155 cm wide. The vehicle had no bumpers . The turning circle was given as 11 meters. The chassis weighed 650 kg, the complete vehicle 1350 kg. Only landaulet has survived .

The Parisian taxi company Compagnie Générale des Voitures à Paris (G 3) used the vehicle as a taxi .

literature

  • Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 5: 1924-1933 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-902667-06-X , pp. 114-131 (French).
  • René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 90-95 (French).

Web links

  • Photo (accessed September 21, 2014)

Individual evidence

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