The Renault 4L Enlists | Renault 4L Sinpar Commando Marine
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- During the late 1950s and the 1960s, the French Navy’s airborne services generally found themselves lacking in terms of easily air-transportable vehicles. These were needed to provide a means of quick transportation for airborne navy infantrymen and had to be able to be deployed by helicopters.
This issue was first encountered in Algeria and led to the creation of a particularly interesting improvisation on the basis of the popular and very light Citroën 2CV car, the 2CV GHAN1. This was a surprisingly heavily armed vehicle, equipped with either a 20 mm MG151 autocannon or a 75 mm M20 recoilless rifle, depending on the configuration picked. However, it remained a one-off conversion, not a vehicle formally offered by a manufacturer. Something along those lines, a vehicle based on the Renault 4L, perhaps the only light and affordable French car of the time to outdo the 2CV in production numbers, would be offered to French services a few years later. Though formally rejected by the French military, 10 would be acquired by the French Navy’s elite Commando Marines.
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When we discuss the Soviet cars, we often hear that they are cheap and easy to fix. The funny part is, cars like Renault R4 are as cheap and even easier to fix and it is good. My grandfather used to have one, I have never seen a car so simple and reliable like the R4.
Yes but the soviets always wanted to stay cheap and easy to fix (ahem unless we're talking about the ugly ducking T-64)
@@someturkishguy8638 Renault kept making R4 till the mid 90s lol
@@zondazerda2230 and don't forget the even simpler Citroen pony
We unironically need more alternative encyclopedias.
I want to see North Korean trucks and APCs man.
I guess I'll be the first to say it. This thing is really hard to take seriously as a commando car. I mean, just look at it!
What is hard to take seriously is the gold plated glorified jeeps that the Pentagon is paying for their airborne and special forces since many years...this make much more sense, at least at the time. The vehicule is one of the most produced of the last century and was vastly present in Africa. So spare parts everywhere.
I think the armed 2cv vid was a little cooler, big guns and all that!
The Citroën 2CV Sahara was an interesting vehicle. Comparable to the Volkswagen Kommandeurswagen: the peoples car converted to four-wheel-drive. Except it was accomplished by installing two independent engines and transmissions, because… Citroën.
The French copy no one, and no one copies the French, as they say.
@@breadenthusiast-rr5vr Funnily enough, the Germans kind of did. Mercédes-Benz basically copied the Citroën DS’s hydro-pneumatic suspension system in the 1960’s/1970’s.
An other example of such vehicle in military use is Citroen pony
In the Greek army they even used them for carrying low recoil guns !
Now I can’t wait for you to show us that militarised Citroën SM that I’m convinced you hare hiding from us.
I own a Citroën SM, and used to work for a garage that specialized in them (SM World). My boss, Jerry Hathaway, was widely regarded as the foremost expert on it in the world. Funnily enough, there were plans to produce a version of the short-wheelbase “Breadvan” Rally sport version with 4-wheel-drive, which is really no surprise given their reputation for innovation. Unfortunately the company ran out of money before it could be developed, as it would’ve required a rearranging of the transmission layout, or for Maserati to redesign the engine entirely.
@@stoneylonesome4062 First of all congratulations for owning a Citroën SM. Second, I knew I was on to something.
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A R4 Sinpar Torpedo with a 105 HP R5 Alpine Turbo engine would be a little Gymkhana monster !
Merci pour ce très beau reportage qui me rappelle ma (lointaine) jeunesse !
La Renault 4 ou la réussite d'un plagiat : sortie quinze ans après la 2cv, elle en reprend les avantages et laisse de côté les inconvénients de son ainée !
J'ai eu les deux : 2cv et 4L, toujours un régal au volant, économique, facile d'entretien, et elles passaient partout !
There's a video on the 2CV as well on the channel
An interesting vid. Thanks!
I'm just wondering if you are going to do that AT-Vespa conversion.
you should collaborate with Ed's Auto Reviews. he does allot of history stuff like this on cars
It's actually a civilian car. The R4 plein air.
Lol
As an American I really like this tiny guy... however the modern Renaults are ugly AF.
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