Start with what the Renault 14 is: a 4-door hatchback with 1219 cc PSA-Renault X-Type engine#XZ, built from 1976 to 1983, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Renault 14 is a small family car produced by the French manufacturer Renault between 1976 and 1983. It was first shown in January 1976 with production beginning in June of that year. It was the first car to be produced in large volumes at the company's then new plant at Douai, although small pilot runs of the Renault 5 had preceded the 14's production in the factory.
The engineering
The engine is 1219 cc PSA-Renault X-Type engine#XZ; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 855 kg – 890 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2530 mm / 2560 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Renault line-up the Renault 14 has a clear place: it replaced the Renault 6; it handed the line to the Renault 9 & 11; the factory was Douai (Douai Renault Factory. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Lotus Esprit, the Ford Fiesta, the BMW 3 Series. Its Renault stablemates include the Renault 10 and the Renault 10CV.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Renault 14 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.