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This will go into production. Kristjan !!!!!!!! ...  

This is the first EV with real Turbo's ... If Porsche can make a Taycan Turbo, Renault sure can. Times are changing my friend, let's enjoy our petrol cars even more now.

Since many modern petrol or diesel cars already have electric turbo's, why not take one of those electric turbo's to cool the electric motors of an EV .... hihi. So then you can't deny an EV can be equipped with turbos. If it will make any difference to t... 

But the Bim has other ideas

It will replace my old Turbo 1 & 2 … in reality at a quoted 500hp, probably much quicker 😎

.. it's a faithful modern bonkers hommage to the original.

I don’t see a problem with how Renault have approached this modern homage to the Turbo 1 & 2 legacy. Time has moved on this car will be definitely be sitting in my garage as soon as it becomes available. PS … I still love my petrol cars !

... maybe not as an average everyday car, but who wants that anyway ?

Have been seeing the first R5s on the road and they look well done. Maybe time to test drive the A290… Not quite sure how much longer until this one comes out…

Probably one to two years I guess

They live in another universe even though they're part of Renault. My Renault dealer always complains about the fact Renault is showing off new models and then waits several months to a year to finally bring it into the showrooms. By that time most people... 

But they will probably loose money on the Turbo3 ... limited run of 2000 pieces.

It’s then part of the marketing budget 🤪 In spite of everything they will lose a lot less than if it was ICE, as you would really need to use a lot of custom made components there that are a lot more costly.

Is that bonkers versions like this are significantly cheaper to make in comparison to ICE engines ones, which would require drastically more reengineering 👍🏻

With significantly more torque than the original 😬

I had several turbos replaced, engine rebuilt and the electrical systems could be problematic. Aluminium doors were a constant concern when using a public car park 😱

Well, my ICE E63 is also anything but temperamental 🤪

Not even anything near the A290. The carrozeria is carbon fibre, rwd and no fwd. They are going to make 2000 cars only and I already heard rumors of a price around 120.000 €. Probably a zero operation in the best case. Now who am I to talk about finance .... 

But converting an electric car from FWD to RWD is comparatively speaking easy in contrast to an ICE powered vehicle 😊

.. The A290(R5) is developed with the possibility of adding an extra motor to the rear wheels.

A modified version of the Renault/Alpine 1.8 The with the same 500 hp would be wonderful. Although I'm pretty sure the EV will be wonderful as well.

Same 1.8 RWD Mid-engine So this EV makes more sense for you.

How is the hp/weight ratio and balance shift?. Usually ev are designed to be center heavy?. That would be spectacular.

HAGWE

Love that design

A V6 would be an option, but a 4-pot turbo would be perfect ! Preferably a 1.4 but I'll settle for a tuned 1.8 .... and some 1970 roads ;-)

It's PimPeano ... Not PimBeano ;-)

Just like my daughter, she constantly made up new words. I like the RENAUXTREMIST.

Not very fond of that 3-pot and apparently it's eager to blow up ;-). Especially if you fiddle with it. IMO the existing Reanult/Alpine 1.8 would be perfect. Pretty reliable (knocking on wood) and more characterful than the GR's engine.

But an unsuitable V6, as it didn’t have a sporting gene in it. The nicest V6 I have experienced so far still remains Honda’s NSX (the original one, albeit in the 3.2 liter version).

Maybe 2years ago at emarket hype but not today imho.

.. about the sales so far. They told me if this would have been a hybrid car it would sell like crazy. But for now intrest is a bit low ... What did we expect honestly ;-) ?

Yes.