Virus was a French
automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with Wheel, wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, Car seat, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport private transport#Personal transport, pe ...
.
Pierre Brissonnet was the owner of the ''Garage Renouvier'' in the Rue de Renouvier in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. He built
cyclecar
A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufactured in Europe and the United States between 1910 and the early 1920s. The purpose of cyclecars was to fill a gap in the market between the motorcycle and the car. A key c ...
s between 1930 and 1935. Designer of the cars was a certain Renaud. The cars had
front-wheel drive and a
two-stroke engine
A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes (up and down movements) of the piston during one power cycle, this power cycle being completed in one revolution of t ...
with 350
cc.
[Burgess Wise 2004, p. 527.] The cars raced at the
Bol d'Or.
Notes
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References
* Burgess Wise, David (2004). ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles''. Greenwich Editions.
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Cyclecars