oh, yes, they were terrible indeed.
yes, it was called the le car turbo sometimes in the us although it
was never officially sold there and none were badged 'le car'. its
really nothing like a normal renault 5 (le car) at all. they were
hand made by renault sport in dieppe and they only made a few
thousand, initially just to homologate it as a group 4 / group b rally
car.
the engine came out of the renault formula 1 development program and
is mid mounted driving the rear wheels through a 5 speed transaxle.
its about 10" wider than a normal renault 5 and all the suspension and
rear subframe looks like a hand made race car. they had between 160
and 350 hp from that little 1.4l 4 cylinder, weigh well under 1000kg
and can pull about 1G through a corner. the works group B cars with
the 350hp motors were called the 'maxi'.
so its quite a little beast!
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Jeffrey Nichols
<jxnichols@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> "speaking of which, that video prodded me into action and after a
> couple of weeks of research i test drove an r5 turbo2 this morning.
> its a truly amazing car - i've never driven anything so fast through
> corners. this was a very original car with the factory 185hp upgrade.
> i'm probably going to buy it, but i'm looking at a couple of others
> next week. there are only 50 of them in the UK."
>
>
> Is that the Renault turbo Le Car(as it was known in the USA) ? I hope its
> better than the Renault Fuego Turbo I had back in the 80's. That car was a
> complete piece of *&%! The year I owned it it was one disaster after
> another. Timing chain slipped, turbo burned out, refused to start for two
> days straight and then mysteriously started up and had to cancel the tow
> truck ready to haul it to the dealer, muti-speed wiper decided it was a one
> speed wiper that parked randomly on the window when shut off., parking
> brake light went on for no apparent reason....etc. Had to buy another car
> and spent two months trying to sell the Fuego.
>
>
>
> Jeff
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