{"id":146528,"date":"2024-08-02T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/all-car-news.com\/spotted-a-renault-4-frog\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:40:00","slug":"spotted-a-renault-4-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-car-news.com\/en\/spotted-a-renault-4-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted: a Renault 4 Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On vacation abroad, you sometimes come across cars that you would not easily encounter in the Netherlands.<br \/>\nFor example, because it is an older model that has long since disappeared from the streets here, or a car that was never delivered here at all.<br \/>\nSometimes there are also local versions of cars that we know in other forms.<br \/>\nTake this week&#8217;s unusual Renault 4.   <\/p>\n<h2><strong>The spotted specimen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the Italian village of Trevignano Romano, near Rome, where we were for a test drive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/autorai.nl\/review-mitsubishi-asx-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new Mitsubishi ASX<\/a>, we saw this Renault 4.<br \/>\nYou immediately see that it is no ordinary &#8220;four.<br \/>\nIt turns out to be a Renault 4 Frog.<br \/>\nThis example is registered in the province of Turin, which is quite a distance from the spot location.<br \/>\nA nice detail is the miniature version on the dashboard.    <\/p>\n<div class=\"galery galery-0\">\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"cursor: pointer\" data-src=\"https:\/\/autorai.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AutoRAI-Gespot-Renault-4-Frog-2-1600x900.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"galery-0\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/autorai.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AutoRAI-Gespot-Renault-4-Frog-2-360x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-small size-small\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"cursor: pointer\" data-src=\"https:\/\/autorai.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AutoRAI-Gespot-Renault-4-Frog-3-1600x900.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"galery-0\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/autorai.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AutoRAI-Gespot-Renault-4-Frog-3-360x270.jpg\" class=\"attachment-small size-small\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>The Renault 4 Frog<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There are other similar conversions based on the Renault 4, including Renault&#8217;s own Plein Air, but here we are talking about the Frog.<br \/>\nThis is actually the same model as the more famous JP4 from the French Car Syst\u00e8me, but supplied by an Italian division of that company.<br \/>\nWith official support from Renault Italia.  <\/p>\n<p>Broadly speaking, the conversion involved replacing all but the front of the original body with a partially polyester, half-open &#8220;two-door&#8221; body.<br \/>\nThe chassis was also shortened 270 mm.<br \/>\nInstead of a roof, the Frog had a tubular structure with a canvas roof over it.<br \/>\nThe Frog was available in different color combinations.<br \/>\nHowever, bright red or dark green in combination with beige roof and seats seem to be the most common combinations.<br \/>\nThe Alpine rims on the spotted example are not original.<br \/>\nBasically, the Frog was delivered with white steel rims.      <\/p>\n<p>The exact production number is not known, but about 500 units would have been (re)built.<br \/>\nThis production took place from 1987 until the end of production of the Renault 4 itself, in 1992.<br \/>\nNevertheless, we do see some examples for sale with earlier build years.<br \/>\nThe Frog conversion probably took place after 1987, but with an older Renault 4 as a donor car.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/autorai.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AutoRAI-Gespot-Renault-4-Frog-1-1140x727.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182492\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is vacation time and so this time we are once again spotlighting a foreign spotlight. 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