In 1898, the gifted and innovative Frenchman Louis Renault built his first car. Only twenty-one years old, he converted a motorized tricycle into a "minicar" by adding another road wheel and a transmission system. The car he designed had a three-speed...

1877-1944 French automobile manufacturer who, with his brothers, manufactured racing cars and, during World War I, tanks. Renault continued manufacturing military equipment for the French army and, during the Second World War, for the occupying German...

Louis Renault (February 15, 1877, Paris, France – October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. The youngest of five children born into a Paris bougeois family, Renault was fascinated by...