One Off Quiz #50 - finished

[carsntrucks4you]

 

 This car is was planned as a luxurious, prestigious car with focusing to replace the Citroen DS in car fleet of the Elysee palace. In 1966 Renault and Peugoet had agreed to develop a luxurious car. Renault build three different prototypes (fastback saloon, 2.5 box saloon and a saloon). The interior had longitunal adjustable rear seat and a two zone air conditioning. The body of the fastback saloon was inspired by the innovative Renault 16.  Peugeot was responsible for the engine but the did also saloon. While Renault designed the car themselves Peugeot commissioned Pininfarina to do the job.  The market for such a car was too small and the investigations in development and manufacturing of the car leads to a stop of the project in 1967. The engine design lived longer, not as a V8 but as V6. Based on the V8 the Renault-Peugeot-Volvo joint venture developed the legendary Dourvin 2.7l V6.

The  Renault H was powered by a 3.5l V8. The internet shows different years for this car one says 1966, the other 1967 and also 1968 were mentioned. Therefore these model years are correct.

Bucky

thatz4u

Ace-Garageguy

otherunicorn

Richard Bartrop

sent the correct answer. Congratulations

Edited August 20, 2024 by carsntrucks4you

[Bucky]

PM sent. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

I have absolutely no idea.  

[carsntrucks4you]

2 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I have absolutely no idea.  

I can't beleave it that you have no idea. Let see I'll sent a hint if the response is low.

 

[thatz4u]

pm'd

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 8/12/2024 at 11:51 AM, carsntrucks4you said:

I can't beleave it that you have no idea. Let see I'll sent a hint if the response is low.

 

PM'd.   

[otherunicorn]

I thought it looked like a mix of xxxxx, xxxxx and xxxxx - and was very surprised to find it was actually made by one of these manufacturers!

[Earl Marischal]

What is the answer and who won please?

steve

[carsntrucks4you]

23 hours ago, Earl Marischal said:

What is the answer and who won please?

steve

I thought that I had posted the answer yesterday, may be I'm getting old?

[DonW]

On 8/20/2024 at 6:07 AM, carsntrucks4you said:

I thought that I had posted the answer yesterday, may be I'm getting old?

Aren't we all!

Minor typo in your answer - the V6 is the Douvrin engine, not Dourvin.?

Cheers,

-Don.

[TarheelRick]

Again, I was looking on the wrong side of the world. It has a definite Asian flare to it.

[Ace-Garageguy]

7 hours ago, TarheelRick said:

Again, I was looking on the wrong side of the world. It has a definite Asian flare to it.

I have to agree it looks kinda Asian, but those headlights are pure '60s Euro.

[Richard Bartrop]

I thought it looked like an extra large Renault 12, which helped a lot

[stitchdup]

I was very wrong, i was looking at communist cars