Renault 15 TL
A practical coupe that put glass and everyday manners ahead of overt aggression.
Renault 15 — representative later automatic · Guillaume Vachey · CC0 1.0
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More than a set of wheels.
Renault introduced the related 15 and 17 in 1971. The 15 offered generous side glazing, while its sibling used a more assertive four-lamp face and rear-side grilles. This profile follows the 1972 TL manual, before the family’s 1976 restyle.
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Renault’s 209,887 sales figure covers the whole 15 family, not this year or trim.
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A coupe without the sporting disguise
The broad side glass made the 15 visually lighter than the 17. Those differences were deliberate styling choices, not evidence of a different basic purpose: the TL offered a distinctive body around familiar family-car mechanical ideas.
Source: The Originals Renault Museum — R15 family history ↗Two horsepower labels, one engine
The period test lists 60 DIN and 68 SAE. They describe different measurement conventions, not two tunes to mix together. Its account of a twin-choke carburettor and 9.5:1 compression explains how the related Renault 12 engine gained output without a larger displacement.
Source: Autopista No. 710, 16 September 1972 — Renault 15 TL road test, transcribed by Piel de Toro ↗Where these facts come from
- The Originals Renault Museum — R15 family history
- Autopista No. 710, 16 September 1972 — Renault 15 TL road test, transcribed by Piel de Toro
Selected facts checked for this edition. Some source pages link to broader model families. Last reviewed 2026-10-16T00:10:48.079Z.