The Captain just posted a shot of one of his past automotive loves - the Renault Turbo. Just now Renault opened up the order book for its spiritual successor, the likewise RWD but somewhat stronger (533bhp) and electrically powered successor, the Turbo 3E...
In the old days, to go from a street car to a much more powerful car, you had to go from an in-line four cylinder engine to a V6/I6 or a V8 or even a V12. Everybody could understand that this added a lot of complexity, with some clear mechanical skills an...
Completely different platform, largely carbon fiber, much lighter, RWD as opposed to FWD for the standardโฆ As for as bona fide engineering goes this is no different than the changes needed in the old, ICE days. Not just a chip or a stronger motor ๐
But a good marketing exercise. Cannot imagine they earned any money with the Clio V6s or the original Turboโs, either and the adaptations there were much less ๐
I really don't like the style of wheels at all and have no idea what the silver rear end bits are even meant to be doing other than looking ugly. For me and the money one of these will cost I would much rather hunt down an original R5 Turbo 2 and still ha...
The only one on Autoscout24 in Germany is actually โฌ10k more than this - prices seem to have jumped drastically over the past decade or so. As for the design, I guess an acquired taste (also cannot say exactly what the silver bits do). But I am quite impr...