The 1956 Renault 4CV arrived at a moment when Europe was still rebuilding, and it quietly rewrote the rules for what a family car could be. Compact, affordable and cleverly engineered, it showed that ...

The 4CV was a handy, economical little runabout for average size people to commute or run errands. Following the Second World War, a few European countries started exporting cars to North America to ...