{"id":22255,"date":"2019-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/renault-frgate-ondine-cabrio-by-ghia-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:06:12","slug":"renault-frgate-ondine-cabrio-by-ghia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/renault-frgate-ondine-cabrio-by-ghia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault Fr\u00e9gate Ondine Cabrio by Ghia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Already during the years of World War 2 Renault started planning a new model range for a possible post-war period. In parallel with the 4CV they were also already thinking about a new model for the upper middleclass and even built a prototype, but put the project into the shelf to concentrate work on the more important compact car, whose market opportunities were considered to be larger. However, then the demand for a more luxurious and bigger car grew in the late 1940s, development nearly started all over again, as the war designs were now considered obsolete. As a result, the French manufacturer presented the new Fr\u00e9gate at the Paris Motor Show 1950 with 60-hp four-cylinder engine. Six years later the sedan version was followed by a station wagon called ‘Domaine’ and as a choice also a 77-hp engine.

Both engine variants transmitted their power via a manual four-speed gearbox with shift lever on the steering column to the rear wheels, which for the first time were mounted to a rear axle with trailing arms. At the front double wishbones were used. Typical drum brakes all around were used to decelerate the car. At the end of the production in 1960, the last of a total of 163,383 copies of the Fr\u00e9gate left the factory. Until 1975 Renault didn’t produce another vehicle for the upper middleclass. In addition to the sedan and the station wagon, Renault delivered just a few naked chassis of the Fr\u00e9gate to external coachbuilders.<\/p>\n\n\n

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