RE: Spotted: Renault 5 Turbo 2

[Baryonyx]

Terry Barr said:

Edit to add:
dhf, for attention you want to try taking an Exige S1 to Donegal. I gad it parked in the ain street in Buncrana for a several hours a few years ago and the whole town seemed to be taking photos.

Edited by Terry Barr on Thursday 12th April 14:33

Okay, the Exige is a nice car but lets not be silly, it's not the stuff of legend like these classic Renaults! I absolutely love them.

[JMF894]

Wanted one of these since i was a small boy

Still do at 43

Jimbo

[Fleckers]

back in the day

Radbourne racing in Wimbledon had one of these in their showroom, remember slobbering over it when my mate was there getting something for his R5

great looking car, never saw it move but I bet it went well

[BIG BAVARIAN]

LotusOmega375D said:

No it's not a Renault Maxi 5 Turbo: it's a regular Turbo 2 with a Maxi-style bodykit. Renault Sport only produced the necessary 20 genuine Maxi 5 Turbos for homologation. A fair few of those were promptly dismantled for spares. Since the works Renault team only competed in a handful of rounds of the WRC, there were very few genuine works car made. This probably makes them one of the rarest of all the Group B works cars. Renault did make the required 200 Turbo 2 road cars with a slightly higher displacement (but no other noteable differences). These are known as the "8221" model cars, as opposed to the other about 4800 "8220" model Turbo 1 and Turbo 2 cars.

Free carcheck says its a Renault 5 GT turbo, it would seem that its a copy.

[dhf]

Fleckers said:

back in the day

Radbourne racing in Wimbledon had one of these in their showroom, remember slobbering over it when my mate was there getting something for his R5

great looking car, never saw it move but I bet it went well

Maybe you were looking at mine, i bought mine from them after a customer had spent a fortune on engine work,RHD conversion and a Devil exhaust !

[GTRene]

this is also a nice Turbo 1 maxi gr B



http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/renault.r%205...

there is even a gr 4 290hp in the list

http://suchen.mobile.de/auto/search.html?scopeId=C...

[Hoofty]

Surely a contender for the most awesome wheel rims to roll out of a factory?

Those and the pumped up, slatted rear wings take me back to very fond memories of holidays in France in the late 80's where my brother and I would engage in slightly cooler carspotting games than we could back here.

The last one I can remember seeing in apparently daily use was a black one being driven by a Tabatha Cash lookalike in Le Touquet, some time in the mid 90's.

[GTRene]

jummie

http://www.carsablanca.de/marketplace/cars/remote_...







and what is this one? they say 1 out 200 for WRC turbo 2 is that so or just out the 8K list...

said:

1985/6 Renault 5 Turbo 2 ,nr 149 of 200 produced for WRC

edit: ah, its correct it is one of the 200 8221 series.

VIN 8221000010149

http://www.carsablanca.de/marketplace/cars/remote_...

Edited by GTRene on Thursday 12th April 20:08

[LotusOmega375D]

BIG BAVARIAN said:

Free carcheck says its a Renault 5 GT turbo, it would seem that its a copy.

I am sure it's an R5T2. These cars were never officially imported by Renault, so the DVLA did not have an exact match. They just took the easy option. They were all registered as "Gordinis" or "GT Turbos" or even boggo R5s.

[monthefish]

Awesome.

How nimble was that?


to Renault for making it, and again to Renault for (loosely) recreating it with the Clio V6.

[jason s4]

BIG BAVARIAN said:

Free carcheck says its a Renault 5 GT turbo, it would seem that its a copy.

Good spot!

It has the GTT interior!

[GTRene]

the nice thing also is that the engine is mounted longitudinal in such short car, cool...
the Clio V6 and the Peugeot T16 is mounted euh how you name that in English ah transversely.

[vertico2k]

Fleckers said:

back in the day

Radbourne racing in Wimbledon had one of these in their showroom, remember slobbering over it when my mate was there getting something for his R5

great looking car, never saw it move but I bet it went well

Pretty sure that was a T1 as it sat in their showroom for ages. Btw anyone who missed here's my ex Derek Warwick Turbo 2 which I've had for 20 odd years

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyI...

[Mouse1903]

I want one of these. Makes my Abarth sound a bit limp having 160bhp from a 1.4 Turbo....25 years later!

[e..uncle..hello]

Doesn't really get better than these two.


http://www.ruylclassics.nl/renault01_eng.htm

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c...

[Evo]

These really are such a fabulous car with awesome road presence, I'd almost go as far to say that i'd rather have one of these over a similarly priced Ferrari 355. It's good to be a bit left field.

[craigbunyan]

Jesus seems to shifting his collection here - including a cheap maxi! http://www.rallycarsforsale.net/clas/index.php?ct=...

[James1972]

Used to be one of these at the bottom of my road on occasion in Old Hatfield - I'd go on incessantly about how special it was - nobody listened to me at 9 - I was right though !
Still have a very scruffy brochure for a T2 all in French !

[Nellist]

Awesome little cars. I've seen Jean Ragnotti last two years running at the Renault World Series, puts on a fantastic show in his R5!

[dhf]

LotusOmega375D said:

I am sure it's an R5T2. These cars were never officially imported by Renault, so the DVLA did not have an exact match. They just took the easy option. They were all registered as "Gordinis" or "GT Turbos" or even boggo R5s.

mine was a R5 Turbo le car 2 or somesuch on its papers,basically it meant i paid tiny insurance for it,even though i pointed out out that its engine was in the boot to the insurance company