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and a Lexus-badged front-engine V10 supercar. And then, of course, there’s the Renaultsport Clio V6, whose inception is every bit as barmy as its wide-arched silhouette would have you think it is.
It all starts with a bizarre championship. The Renault Clio Cup is, or was, a highlight of a BTCC weekend. It was a recipe for complete chaos: fill a grid with cheap race-spec Clios, get a bunch of teenagers all looking to show the world how talented they are and pit them against each other on Britain’s finest circuits. It was a major success and when the second-generation Clio arrived in the late 1990s, Renaultsport wanted to build on the success of the Clio Cup by shaking up the formula.
Legendary race car builder Tom Walkinshaw Racing was called upon to shove a Laguna-sourced 2.9-litre V6 in the middle of Renault’s new supermini. The result was a wide-arched, short-wheelbase monster that would form the one-make Clio Trophy series. Naturally, spectators were blown away by the sight of the juiced-up supermini and some very cool people at Renault were able to get senior members to give the greenlight to a road-going version.
Interestingly, the first-generation road-going Clio V6 would be assembled by TWR in Sweden, with production shifting to Dieppe in France for the Phase 2. This meant that the mid-engine Clio had a homemade whiff about it, especially on the inside. TWR left the interior largely unchanged, with the bog-standard Clio’s hilariously ugly tri-spoke steering aluminium-look base to the gear lever.
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