{"id":47223,"date":"2026-10-26T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/?p=47223"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:31:53","slug":"archives-gaston-juchets-super-renault-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/?p=47223","title":{"rendered":"Archives: Gaston Juchet\u2019s “super” Renault 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In December 1964, almost 62 years ago, Gaston Juchet \u2013 then Renault\u2019s head of design \u2013 sketched several views of a project on a large drawing, which he labelled the \u2018Super 115\u2019. Before becoming the \u2018Super 115\u2019, the \u2018115\u2019 project was quite simply that of the revolutionary Renault 16 (above), which would be launched in 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the many sketches of the \u201cSuper 115\u201d is dated 27 December 1964. The Renault 16, meanwhile, was about to go on sale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The head of R\u00e9gie Renault at the time was Pierre Dreyfus, who, unlike his counterpart at Citro\u00ebn (Pierre Bercot), now wanted to design cars tailored to societal changes, rather than products devised by engineers \u2013 even though the latter would, of course, play a part in this revolution that was Programme 115, namely the Renault 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The extended bonnet was no doubt intended to conceal an inline-six engine, in contrast to the V8 chosen for another major Renault model developed jointly with Peugeot two years later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And so, a team of young designers and engineers set to work. Gaston Juchet (1930\u20132007) was in his thirties when he sketched the Renault 16. Most of these men had children and wanted to redefine the overly technical specifications. Yes to the fifth door \u2013 which Pierre Bercot had rejected \u2013 yes to front-wheel drive, yes to interior modularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his \u2018Super 115\u2019, Gaston Juchet draws on the architectural features of his Renault 16, notably the fifth door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A 1500 that doesn\u2019t dress up in the tailored guise of a posh, upper-class car, but takes on a variety of forms to appeal to families at every stage of their lives. And, first and foremost, at every stage of their week: work, shopping, leisure or weekend DIY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is what the Renault that was intended to be the flagship model of the range before the late 1960s might have looked like\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By December 1964, for Gaston Juchet, the Renault 16 was almost a thing of the past, even though the production model had not yet gone into production. He realised that with the new R16, Renault would appeal to a wider audience than with the Fr\u00e9gate, which it was replacing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But there is still room for a \u2018large\u2019 Renault. 1964 was a year before the Renault 16 went on sale, and two years before the launch of the \u2018Y\u2019 programme \u2013 the counterpart to Peugeot\u2019s \u2018H\u2019 project \u2013 aimed at jointly developing a top-of-the-range saloon with a V8 engine. Below is one of the proposals for the large Renault under the joint programme between the two French manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This project follows on from the agreements signed between the two French manufacturers in 1966. The \u2018Super 115\u2019 shown below was therefore ahead of the brand\u2019s product planning decisions, but it remained at the design stage; we have taken the liberty of transforming these drawings into digital illustrations whilst remaining faithful to Gaston Juchet\u2019s original work. This large Renault may well have paved the way for Project H, launched in 1966 by the Peugeot-Renault partnership\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we must unfortunately (?) take away from this is that neither the \u2018Super 115\u2019 designed by Gaston Juchet nor the large saloon car from the joint Renault-Peugeot programme ever saw the light of day. Only the work carried out on the V8 engine, which was derived into a V6, resulted in the Peugeot-Renault-Volvo V6 (the PRV). However, the agreements did give rise to a new four-cylinder engine, as seen in the Renault 14, and to the development of a family saloon which, after numerous changes, evolved into the Renault 30 and Renault 20. Perhaps these are the \u2018granddaughters\u2019 of the \u2018Super 115\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictured above, mass production of the Renault 16\u2019s Project 115 began in Sandouville in 1965, one year after the designs for the \u201cSuper 115\u201d were drawn up and one year before the launch of a major Renault project carried out in collaboration with Peugeot. The Renault 16 was set to make a splash with its five-door design and modular interior. It would compete with all the \u201c1500\u201d models, and it would be another 10 years, in 1975, before it was replaced by the Renault 30, a preliminary study of which by Gaston Juchet is shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 1964, almost 62 years ago, Gaston Juchet \u2013 then Renault\u2019s head of design \u2013 sketched several views of a project on a large drawing, which he labelled the \u2018Super 115\u2019. Before becoming the \u2018Super 115\u2019, the \u2018115\u2019 project was quite simply that of the revolutionary Renault 16 (above), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47223"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47251,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47223\/revisions\/47251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}