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In Reply to: RE: Renault autos. Anyone own one, or did? posted by free.ranger on November 19, 2015 at 10:11:38
just because it was a gas to drive in the twisties and looked so outrageous and made a cacophony which sounds like sex crazed banshees on Quaaludes.
A buddy had one...
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Sounds OK.
Vid of ONLY in a straight line.
How is the HANDLING?
Next car up will be someone who LOVES the Citroen SM or ???
The HONDA 1liter superbike. Now THAT's a sound!
Too much is never enough
That car was a little monster.
Didn't have much to do with its alleged parent fwd R5 (Le Car) being mid-enginged and rwd.
Excellent handling as one would expect from a car that was build purely to win rallyes.
Road versions only exist because they had to build 400 of them to get homologation.
Eventually it couldn't compete with the fully-grown 4wd Group B monsters.
The Turbo 2 was the 2nd version, made more street-able and without some exotic materials. It was just about as fast as the first version (known as the Turbo 1 by some). And I drove it through the twisties on the back roads around the Coastal range, La Honda/Boulder Creek.Ben Lomond etc etc.
It was the first car I ever thought that acted as if it was on rails. It stayed glued.
Well it was built to beat the Lancia Stratos so it stuck to tarmac like a limpet.
AFAIK the first 400 were built by Alpine with cost no object high tech bits to get it race-legal.
Turned out to be such a capable sports car that they bowed to popular demand and built a slighltly more civilian version in main Renault factories.
Back then there was not a lot that could stick with it on the road, not even from Porsche or Ferrari for a lot more money. In rallyeing the 4wd Group B cars beat it on gravel and othe loose surfaces and unfortunately for Renault there were only two or three tarmac rallyes in any 14 odd race season.
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