page_title: Renault Juvaquatre
section_title: After the war
hierarchical_section_title: Renault Juvaquatre / After the war
caption_attribution_description: English: A four-door Renault Juvaquatre used by Nguyen Tan Mieng of the "Inner Saigon Special Mobile Detachment" during the 1968 Tet uprising
context_page_description: The Renault Juvaquatre is a small family car / compact car automobile produced by the French manufacturer Renault between 1937 and 1960, although production stopped or slowed to a trickle during the war years. The Juvaquatre was produced as a sedan/saloon until 1948 when the plant switched its full attention to the new Renault 4CV. During the second half of 1952 the plant restarted production of the Juvaquatre sedans/saloons for a period of approximately five months.
  In 1950 a van based station wagon body joined the range; later models of the station wagon were known as the Renault Dauphinoise. The sedan/saloon found itself overshadowed and was soon withdrawn from production after the appearance in 1946 of the Renault 4CV. However, there was no estate version of the rear engined 4CV or Dauphine, and the Juvaquatre "Dauphinoise" station wagon remained in production until replaced by the Renault 4 in 1960.
context_section_description: Juvaquatre production formally restarted in 1946, with Renault now owned and controlled by the French government.  There was no sign of the two-door saloon/sedan "coach" bodied car, the Juvaquatres all now featuring four doors.   There was very little to distinguish the first post-war Juvaquatres from the four-door saloon/sedan "berline" bodied version launched in 1939, but from the back there was now an opening hatch (boot/trunk lid) so that it was no longer necessary to clamber over two sets of seats in the passenger cabin in order to access the luggage compartment.   The postwar Juvaquatres were produced during years of acute economic stringency, and were almost all earmarked for export.
  At Renault's Billancourt plant the emphasis was now on massive investment in tooling for mass production of the new 4CV, soon to become France's top selling car, and at this location production of the Juvaquatre stopped at the end of 1948.   A small further batch of saloon/sedan bodied cars was produced during 1951 at the manufacturer's new plant at Flins where the Juvaquatre was the first model to be assembled.   Production of the Juvaquatre saloon at Flins finally ended in November 1951.
  The "Break Juva 4" (station wagon) remained in production, between 1950 and 1953 retaining the dashboard and side-valve 1,003 cc engine (albeit now enhanced by an air filter) of the prewar cars.   From 1956 the old station wagon was fitted with the more modern engine from the Renault Dauphine and found itself rebranded as the Renault Dauphinoise.  In the absence of obvious direct competitors, it still sold steadily, with 13,262 produced in 1958 and 9,489 in 1959.   The Dauphinoise continued to be listed until 1960, a few months before the appearance of the Renault 4, in its final years sharing its engine with the Renault Dauphine.
caption: Four-door Juvaquatre, used during the Tet Offensive
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