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Cloverleaf
28th August 2009, 03:42
Renault has announced its new car, the Clio GT.
The car has a 1.6 litre turbocharged engine instead of the 2.0 litre N/A one currently used on the Clio Renault Sport.
Renault says this completely new engine is exclusively designed for the new Clio GT.

After reading this I can't stop thinking about other things. I mean Renault already has a sporty Clio model (RS) and a very successful engine in it. Why are they bothered to design a completely new one exclusively for a same bodyshell?
May this indicate the future plans of Renault?

The thing is according to unofficial resources (http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Renault-to-relaunch-Gordini-hot-hatch-brand-/) Renault is about to relaunch its Gordini brand like Fiat has done with Abarth.
And more to this they now have a platform to prepare new line of rally cars, such as the recently announced R3T class and -if the proposal comes into life- the new 1.6 litre WRC formula.

Anyway back to car, the 1.6 turbo engine only produces 128 ps. So it is no way near sporty. More of a warm-hatch than a "hot" one. However this leaves enough space for Renault to homologate rally cars based on GT model.
Full potential of the new engine is expected to show up in a future Gordini model.

I hope all of this rumors come true.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tayyar_ak47/Clio%20GT/005.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tayyar_ak47/Clio%20GT/006.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tayyar_ak47/Clio%20GT/007.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/tayyar_ak47/Clio%20GT/009.jpg

Tom206wrc
28th August 2009, 08:30
The Clio GT seems to have the same spec. as the Pug 207 R3T :confused:
But regarding the power of the engine the 207 would be faster :p :



Edit: by the way...what is the link between this news and the IRC section of the forum??? :s

OldF
28th August 2009, 20:19
Welcome back ”sinisorsa” as it was called in Finland.

RS
28th August 2009, 20:53
That's not very much power, I guess it is tuned for economy.

My Roomster 1.6 has 105BHP without a turbo :)