LAST AUTO NEWS – RENAULT CONFIRMS GORDINI RETURN!
Last Auto account – Renault confirms Gordini return! Famous Renault cast makes a improvement on adventurous models.
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It’s official – Gordini is back! Renault has accepted its much-loved antic cast is set to return.
As our absolute address appear in Issue 1,054, the cast – associated with dejected cars with white stripes – will be acclimated on top-of-the-range Renaultsport models, giving buyers a new akin of affluence and customisation.
First to account will be the Twingo city-limits car. The Gordini adaptation will be based on the Renaultsport Twingo 133, and is set to be apparent at a appropriate accident on Paris’s Champs Elysees next week.
The archetypal will be alleged the Twingo Gordini RS, and it’s to be abutting by a Clio adaptation in the spring, with a Mégane Gordini accession afore the end of 2010.
Prices will be college than for the approved Renaultsport models the newcomers are based on, and while there will not be any footfall up in performance, buyers are to get altered caster options and upgraded autogenous trims.
This will accredit Renault to action a agnate akin of personalisation as begin on rivals such as the MINI and Fiat 500. The Gordini cars will attack to abduct sales from those firms’ Cooper S and Abarth models.
Gordini aboriginal came to bulge if it raced in Formula One aback in the Fifties. The aggregation again started alive with Renault, affability engines and creating fast alley cars. These included the 8, 12 and – lastly, in the Eighties – the Gordini 5.
The cars’ ablaze dejected acrylic and white stripes became a mark of high-performance credentials, and this colour arrangement afterwards featured on the baking Clio 182 Cup.
Bosses absitively to animate Gordini afterwards ditching affairs to accompany aback the Alpine sports car cast – which would accept complex developing an all-new model. Launching Gordini versions of absolute cars makes far added banking sense.
The account comes as Renault appear affairs to acquaint balmy GT variants of the Mégane and the Twingo.
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