If you enjoyed yesterday’s news of a restomod Renault 5 EV drift machine, check out the time LJK Setright drove the original R5 Turbo back in 1980 👀
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Mechanically there was no doubt or hesitation in the designers’ minds. The car had to be the most proficient tarmac-rallier imaginable, with proper racing- style suspension – double wishbones at every corner – and a mass distribution that dictated a mid-engine layout. As for the engine, it looked as though 2.0 litres would be about right, and allowing for the 1.
Such a power output cannot fail to make so well-balanced and carefully-suspended a car a brilliant performer on the road, being so compact and light. How the power is obtained is worthy of study: drawing on their racing experience Renault have inserted an intercooler: between the turbocompressor and the engine inlet manifold.
What the engine gives, the wheels take through a five-speed gearbox derived from the R30TX and producing 32, 52, 77, 101 and 123mph at 6000rpm in each gear in turn. Interesting is the clutch, a twin-plate device only 7.5 inches in diameter. Most interesting are the tyres which, being TRX, have their own special and odd sizes. The front wheels are 5.5in wide and 13.4in diameter, the rear wheels : are 7.7×14.
At such speeds as this Turbo can reach, you need to use your eyes, too; and you need them for the road, most of the time. The 10 dials on the fascia are well placed for quick reference, but very difficult to read in daylight. They have orange markings, and they are lit whenever the ignition is switched on; but a faint patina of dust, or the sun over one’s shoulder, makes the markings almost disappear.
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