RE: Renault 5 Turbo 2 | PH Heroes
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sideways man said:
Top car! This is what happens when Renault designers go down the pub on Friday and have too many Pernod 
I know we're talking about the Turbo 2, but the interior of the Turbo 1 is just about the maddest things in history. How the actual f
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I read a review of one of these (1 or 2 can't remember) as a young teenager in a Mayfair men's magazine. The reviewer and it was definitely him as he was photographed next to the car was Radio 1 DJ Mike Reid. It looked very exotic and I don't remember anything exceptional about the bare ladies.
A mate of mine bought one new or nearly new back in the day and was a truly epic car. I remember driving around London with him and 2 girls we had met in a bar. Bit of a squeeze it had to be said 
. He ended up wrapping it around a lamppost due to the sudden snap oversteer. He did get it fixed but was sold shortly after.
. He ended up wrapping it around a lamppost due to the sudden snap oversteer. He did get it fixed but was sold shortly after. It’s Bosch K Jetronic fuel injection not carb! I know: mine was a swine to get 100% sweet. The metering unit was from the Porsche 928 with 4 tubes blanked off. Fuel pump from Mk 1 Golf GTi, so cheap to replace, but a pig to fit.
This was mine 1994 - 2008. Loved it.
The GT Turbo was carb.
This was mine 1994 - 2008. Loved it.
The GT Turbo was carb.
Edited by LotusOmega375D on Thursday 25th July 14:00
Edited by LotusOmega375D on Thursday 25th July 14:05
LotusOmega375D said:
It’s Bosch K Jetronic fuel injection not carb! I know: mine was a swine to get 100% sweet. The metering unit was from the Porsche 928 with 4 tubes blanked off. Fuel pump from Mk 1 Golf GTi, so cheap to replace, but a pig to fit.
This was mine 1994 - 2008. Loved it.
The GT Turbo was carb.
I hope it had a decent exhaust.This was mine 1994 - 2008. Loved it.
The GT Turbo was carb.
Edited by LotusOmega375D on Thursday 25th July 14:00
Edited by LotusOmega375D on Thursday 25th July 14:05
epoch911 said:
Truly the maddest, baddest and lag-est car I've ever owned....
Every drive was literally:
"Let's just give this a bit of throttle, eh?....nope nothing....nothing yet....still nothing...OMFG EVERYTHING!!!"
Mental. Totally mental
First car was an R5 (1.4 Campus Every drive was literally:
"Let's just give this a bit of throttle, eh?....nope nothing....nothing yet....still nothing...OMFG EVERYTHING!!!"
Mental. Totally mental
N920CVW) and subseuqently have always had an extra soft spot for anything R5. In that livery though, wibble, no soft spot here right now 
I got to drive the more focussed Turbo 1 a few hundred miles in the 80’s, looked and sounded fabulous even spat flames but the drive was totally meh..
Steering wheel flat like a classic mini, pedals so off set by the wheel arch the passenger could have operated them! The lag was crazy long, so effectively you had to do all your braking then floor it before you got to the corner and wait and wait then bang rush of power for about 2000 rpm followed by a rubbery gear change.
It was memorable though, but the old adage, never meet your heroes !
Steering wheel flat like a classic mini, pedals so off set by the wheel arch the passenger could have operated them! The lag was crazy long, so effectively you had to do all your braking then floor it before you got to the corner and wait and wait then bang rush of power for about 2000 rpm followed by a rubbery gear change.
It was memorable though, but the old adage, never meet your heroes !
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