Such a mental car! Love 'em!
My None-R32 member ride :)
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Mk1 Clio V6 - see my post in the welcome forum for what I'm doing here hehe!
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There is a short 'mods' (I hate that word) list - K-Tec stainless backbox, silvervision bulbs, clear repeaters, Pioneer MP3 headunit and small form Pioneer sub under passenger seat. I love the sound, the look, the attention it draws, the fact it feels so 'raw' - the 21mpg is acceptable, although the utter lack of a boot (well, one that stays dry anyway) can be irritating heh. She's only done 29k miles, is number 57 (only 256 sold in this country through Renault dealers - god knows how many have been written off, as I'm sure everyone knows the rep heh) and leads a pampered and sheltered life hehe!
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Comments welcome!There is a short 'mods' (I hate that word) list - K-Tec stainless backbox, silvervision bulbs, clear repeaters, Pioneer MP3 headunit and small form Pioneer sub under passenger seat. I love the sound, the look, the attention it draws, the fact it feels so 'raw' - the 21mpg is acceptable, although the utter lack of a boot (well, one that stays dry anyway) can be irritating heh. She's only done 29k miles, is number 57 (only 256 sold in this country through Renault dealers - god knows how many have been written off, as I'm sure everyone knows the rep heh) and leads a pampered and sheltered life hehe!
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Aside from going to shows etc - I've never seen another on the road heh
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Aside from going to shows etc - I've never seen another on the road heh
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You're not wrongjackie said:
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60 in a shade under 6 seconds, 150+mph (going off the times in the back of Evo here - the Renault times are a little conservative like VWs for the R32) - but they're not maybe as quick as they should be because they're also very heavy for a small car at 1300kg. All the metal holding the engine in is heavy The engine is hugely torquey, so they feel hugely fast - combined with the noise/raw feeling you *know* when you're going quickly heh.
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The engine is hugely torquey, so they feel hugely fast - combined with the noise/raw feeling you *know* when you're going quickly heh.Dan
wow, that is quite heavy for that size of car. But them times arent too bad at all. My mate has just bought a new clio F1 team, and he loves it to bits, but his only critisism is that it is a little sluggish in the lower gears, up to about 4k revs, but once there it flies!!.Iridium said:60 in a shade under 6 seconds, 150+mph (going off the times in the back of Evo here - the Renault times are a little conservative like VWs for the R32) - but they're not maybe as quick as they should be because they're also very heavy for a small car at 1300kg. All the metal holding the engine in is heavy
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not my bag of frogs to be honest, but cool car none the less
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Thanks for the kind words guys
The Mk1s have a bad rep, because if you over step the mark, they're very unforgiving - short wheel base, mid engined, RWD, lots of torque - is a recipe for disaster if you take the pi$$ heh. I drive it very gently indeed in the wet, but in the dry there is masses of grip and you'd have to really be going some to get past that - or doing it on purpose heh. Granted if you leather round a roundabout flat out in 2nd the back will probably slide, but at lower speeds it is very controllable - thankfully I've never had it step out at high speeds on me...
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The Mk1s have a bad rep, because if you over step the mark, they're very unforgiving - short wheel base, mid engined, RWD, lots of torque - is a recipe for disaster if you take the pi$$ heh. I drive it very gently indeed in the wet, but in the dry there is masses of grip and you'd have to really be going some to get past that - or doing it on purpose heh. Granted if you leather round a roundabout flat out in 2nd the back will probably slide, but at lower speeds it is very controllable - thankfully I've never had it step out at high speeds on me...
Dan
Great road presence and one of my friends used to own one until she wrote it off lol.
Well I say she wrote it off it was actually a mechanical failure. Joining the motorway at 60mph, police following behind her, she pulls out to join motorway. Driveshaft snapped. Clio meet central reservation, central reservation meet clio then threw the car across the carrigeway into the ditch the other side of the hard shoulder.
Luckily she was fine and had the police as witness to it all. As the cars were not built by renault the build quality on the MK1 is shocking, can't remember who built them off hand think it was TRD but hers would have cost £36,000 to put back together so obviously it was written off. She hit the central reservation head on and the airbag didn't even go off , from my understanding the MK2's are much better but she was glad to see the back of it in the end. Though she has a Nissan 350Z now :dry:
Well I say she wrote it off it was actually a mechanical failure. Joining the motorway at 60mph, police following behind her, she pulls out to join motorway. Driveshaft snapped. Clio meet central reservation, central reservation meet clio then threw the car across the carrigeway into the ditch the other side of the hard shoulder.
Luckily she was fine and had the police as witness to it all. As the cars were not built by renault the build quality on the MK1 is shocking, can't remember who built them off hand think it was TRD but hers would have cost £36,000 to put back together so obviously it was written off. She hit the central reservation head on and the airbag didn't even go off
, from my understanding the MK2's are much better but she was glad to see the back of it in the end. Though she has a Nissan 350Z now :dry:The Mk1s were built by TWR Sweden - same place that now builts Volvo cabriolets. I've never heard that before - all reports suggest the Mk1s are a lot better built than all other Clios of the same era? Been hand built in small numbers - a log was kept on every Mk1 detailing every single part, when it was fitted, who it was fitted by and the serial number of each part - there are stickers on the back of even some trim pieces with dates and numbers on! It's a shame these logs can't be made available to owners really - would be a great thing to keep in the service pack heh! Mk2s were built by RenaultSport in Dieppe The Swedes seem pretty good at hammering Volvos and Saabs together (at least till they both got taken over heh) so I'm not too concerned.
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The Swedes seem pretty good at hammering Volvos and Saabs together (at least till they both got taken over heh) so I'm not too concerned.Dan
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