Reborn Renault 4 EV teased

Renault continues to faucet its previous to advertise its future, teasing an idea model of the revived Renault 4 forward of its Paris motor present debut on October 17.

The corporate revealed two shadowed photos in a single day, of the entrance and side-profile, exhibiting an over-the-top present automotive silhouette with a distinctly high-riding SUV stance.

Renault calls the idea “a contemporary twist to an iconic mannequin that left its mark on the Nineteen Sixties, ‘70s, and ‘80s.”

We already knew concerning the French firm’s plan to convey again the well-known Renault 4 as an electrical automotive for the fashionable age, with a reported launch of 2025 in thoughts. The corporate calls it a “reinterpretation”.

This retro-inspired EV will probably be a companion mannequin to the soon-to-be-reborn Renault 5 EV, which itself premiered in present automotive guise in January 2021.

Stories have instructed the road-going Renault 4 EV will go into manufacturing in 2025, about one yr after the Renault 5’s slated 2024 debut.

A leaked patent submitting, initially shared by Dutch web site Autovisie in Might 2021, confirmed that the automotive would retain a small, upright physique like the unique Renault 4.

Not a lot else is thought concerning the revived Renault 4 EV at this stage, nevertheless it’s anticipated to share the 5’s CMF-B EV platform.

Will probably be one in all round 10 Renault Group EVs designed to be launched by 2025: Together with the Megane E-Tech, reborn Renault 5, new Scenic crossover, and a number of other fashions for Alpine.

Whereas the roadgoing Renault 4 stays just a few years off, it’s understood to be on the playing cards for Australia.

“Any new product that’s introduced from the EV facet, we’ve our palms up for,” Renault Australia normal supervisor Glen Sealey advised us in Might this yr.

The unique Renault 4 had been launched in 1961 as a response to the Citroen 2CV, which had focused lower-income French shoppers in rural areas. Greater than eight million 4s had been constructed over its prolonged run.

The 2CV’s recognition as an city runabout impressed Renault to introduce the 4 (and its smaller-engined 3 sibling) as a extra snug and sensible rival to the Citroen.

A lot because the 2CV outlived subsequent Citroen metropolis automobiles and survived till 1990, the Renault 4 continued to be manufactured in France till 1992 and till 1994 in Slovenia and Morocco.