Renault Clio RS16 Concept 2016

[Uno Turbo D]

La trovo carina, meno quello spoiler e quei led che se li potevano proprio risparmiare...immagino che pure questa sarà solo EDCizzata, no?

[TonyH]

12 minuti fa, leon82 dice:

 

La Clio in foto è una 1,4 98cv dell'ottobre 2000?

Se si è a bollo in Piemonte

 

Si, è lei.

Almeno circola ancora dopo 16 anni.

Mi verrebbe quasi voglia di ricomprarmela

[Aymaro]

1 ora fa, Tony ramirez dice:

comunque io come allargamento carrozzeria Clio comprendo solo questa:

che ad oggi mi fa ancora più sangue di questa presentata oggi ipervitaminica ma con decisamente meno appeal.. il perché non lo so!

 

beh, pure questa non scherzava anzi

[boygrunge]

un mio collega si è preso una cup restyling, è riuscito a trovarla solo bianca con una storia abbastanza certa e senza che fosse taroccata/tuningzata...

 

auto immatricolata in Slovenia, finita in Austria e adesso è in Italia...

[the_gallas27]

21 ore fa, Wilhem275 dice:

 

Guarda, queste sono due elaborazioni dei poveri che avevo fatto quand'è uscita.

Si vede chiaramente che il faro senza aggiunta è il suo. Per me l'hanno incasinata apposta per far sembrare più riuscito il SUV...

 

 

Eccola!! (Ho lasciato solo queste due immagini perchè rendono meglio il concetto.)

 

Senza quelle protuberanze, ecco che la seconda assume un'aria molto più seria, filante e sportiva (elemento molto ricercato nel design Renault recente).

Se solo avesse un logo più piccolo, qualche altro aggiustamento sul paraurti, ed eliminando gli orpelli sulle portiere, questa sarebbe una delle macchine più riuscite degli ultimi 10 anni!

[superkappa125]

Si chiama RS 16 ed è stata presentata ufficialmente. Motore della Megane RS e cambio manuale. Probabile edizione limitata.

 

 

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Renault Clio RS16 revealed in Monaco

We ride shotgun in new hardcore Clio concept; it gets the Mégane’s 2.0-litre turbo engine and a manual gearbox; limited production run possible

by Steve Cropley

27 May 2016

Renault Sport has revealed the fastest model in its 40-year history, the 271bhp Clio RS16, choosing the Friday of the Monaco Grand Prix meeting for a special high-speed demonstration of its prototype, driven by Renault Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen.

The RS16, officially a concept, combines the 2.0-litre turbo engine and manual gearbox of the Mégane RS 275 Trophy-R — the firm’s quickest car to date and a recent Nürburgring front-drive record holder — with the lighter and smaller Clio RS body, adding a selection of exotic RS running gear, including some from its range of competition cars. Renault hopes the car will be as prominent in RS history as the mid-engined Renault R5 Turbo and the more recentClio V6.

Read: Will Renault put the RS16 into production?

Renault Sport Cars managing director Patrice Ratti said the “somewhat crazy” idea to build the RS16 — which was developed under the codename KZ 01 — was first discussed last October, but the go-ahead wasn’t given until December, leaving five months to build two prototypes.

There’s little doubt that an RS16 would threaten the Nürburgring front-drive record (currently held by a Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport S), but no formal plan has been announced. The Mégane Trophy-R produced 209bhp per tonne, whereas the Clio prototype, not yet optimised for weight but believed to be about 100kg lighter, has nearer 225bhp per tonne, plus extra agility and a smaller frontal area.

Renault won’t say as much, but as well as marking its maker’s 40th anniversary the RS16 represents a bid by Renault Sport to protect its reputation for making desirable high-performance Clios. The current Clio RS 200 has found less favour with UK buyers than previous models, mainly because the traditional normally aspirated 2.0-litre engine and six-speed manual gearbox have been replaced by a softer 1.6-litre turbo engine and a six-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox.

Even a subsequent, harderedged 220 Trophy version hasn’t entirely fixed the problem, but Renault insists engine and paddle-shift ’box is popular in new markets and sales have not fallen.

If the RS16 gets the go-ahead it could be built in one of two ways: as a low-volume product at Alpine’s Dieppe factory or by an outside coachbuilder using Renault-supplied components. Patrice Ratti’s ideal would be production of two to three cars a day in Dieppe, at a price around €45,000 (£34,000) in France, which would probably translate to a price of around £40,000 here. There would be a batch of cars, much like the Mégane Trophy-R, of which 250 were built. If the RS16 were made in the same numbers, production would probably take four to six months and then stop, because at that stage the current Clio would only have two years left to run.

Renault Sport bosses say they won’t reach a judgement about RS16 production until the summer but are adamant they would like to make the car, provided the costs of hand-building and bespoke components allow a price that will attract buyers.

First whispers of the RS16 project emerged at Renault’s launch of its Formula 1 team at the vast Technocentre, west of Paris, in February. With the project only weeks old, Patrice Ratti revealed its bare bones in a confidential conversation and invited Autocar to a technical preview at Renault Sport’s headquarters at Les Ulis, a design centre-cum-race shop carefully set up, in one of its major strengths, to be independent of the mother company.

Four weeks later, the company has revealed two partbuilt prototypes, a black driving ‘mule’ that has been used to tune the car’s all-important dynamics and a much more eye-catching show concept, gold in colour, which Kevin Magnussen has demonstrated to the crowds in Monaco. That car is also booked to appear at next month’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.

At Les Ulis, the complexity of the car’s build was fully revealed. The RS Trophy-R powertrain fits snugly, along with its six-speed manual gearbox, but mounting them has required much redesigning and the adaptation of parts from the Mégane, Espace and even the Kangoo. In particular, there is an elegant new machined engine top mount.

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One piece of good news is that the engine’s extra weight is more or less offset by a lighter gearbox, so nose weight is little altered. Weight reduction is further aided by the use of an ultra-compact lithium ion battery that saves 15 kilograms. A significant amount of juggling has been needed in order to locate the larger intercooler, the rest of the complex cooling pack and the new Akrapovic twin-pipe exhaust system, which produces “a distinctive energetic sound”.

The biggest hurdle is invisible, engineers say. Change an engine today and you must change many associated components, such as the fuel system and even the instrumentation — and the Clio and Mégane electric architectures were never built to ‘talk’ to one another. Considerable electronic adaptation was needed,especially to achieve the showroom levels of durability a Renault Sport car would need for production and to ensure chassis systems such as ABS and stability control work well.

To cope with the Trophy-R’s 266lb ft torque output, Renault Sport engineers have reinstated the torque steer-reducing independent steering axis front suspension layout, branded PerfoHub, which was dropped from the current Clio. This entailed designing an all-new suspension upright and machining individual items from aluminium alloy billets, although the new design also allowed a space-saving layout of the steering linkages. The front suspension is still by MacPherson struts, but the RS16 uses super-sophisticated Mégane Trophy-R adjustable dampers by Öhlins. The brakes are 360mm Brembo steel discs, grafted onto aluminium hubs, from the Trophy-R’s optional Nürburgring pack.

The rear axle comes from Renault Sport’s R3T factory rally car, a strengthened twist-beam component said to be around 50% stiffer than standard. The car runs standard Clio RS rear discs, also by Brembo, and the wheels are 19in Speedline Turini alloys, which are well known by Renault Sport owners. However, accommodating the wheels, fitted with 235/35 Michelin Pilot Sport tyres, and a 60mm increase in the front and rear track widths required fairly radical body modifications to maintain clearances.

The standard wings are cut back then covered with handsome composite arch extensions, linked by side skirts. These, along with the roof spoiler culled from the Clio Cup factory racer and claimed to deliver 40kg of downforce at 125mph, are the most obvious visual changes. The car also gets a blackedout grille with its front splitter modified to improve airflow to the intercooler, plus a novel set of ‘chequered flag’ running lights. At the rear the diffuser is standard, although the outlets for the Akrapovic exhaust system are new.

Apart from a new gearstick sprouting prominently from the centre console, the RS16 is little different from a standard Clio RS inside, although its rear seats have been removed to save weight and as another way of announcing its special focus.

Renault Sport’s Patrice Ratti can’t yet say if the RS16 will hit production, but if he gives the green light in July or August — and Alpine could find enough manufacturing capacity for a batch of 200-250 cars — production might begin before the end of the year, which could result in UK customers receiving their cars in the first months of next year.

Riding shotgun in the RS16

Not long before the RS16’s Monaco debut, I went to Renault’s Aubevoye test centre, 50 miles north-west of Paris, to ride in the black prototype on a smoothly flowing two-mile handling track. I was lucky to go with David Praschl, the car’s chief development driver, who knew the car inside out and had played a leading hand in tuning its chassis. Already settled in the left-hand seat when I arrived, he smiled and held the door open. The engine idled benignly.

It wasn’t benign. Praschl had done lots of laps already — you could smell the brakes — and we erupted away from a standstill. My recollection is of unstinting acceleration, well into three figures. In the first braking area, there was no evidence of the noseheaviness I’d half expected; in fact, the car felt downright light and superbly good at changing direction. Praschl hardly seeming to steer as he stroked the car along with slick gearchanges — via a proper gearlever — at 6500rpm.

This was a warm day, so we were leaving rubber everywhere. Most of the circuit’s corners were good for 60 to 90mph, but the RS was especially handy in slower ones, showing off its terrific power-to-weight ratio on the exit. I looked deliberately for torque steer as Praschl accelerated hard but couldn’t see his wrists reacting against any. Instead, I enjoyed the way his skill combined with the car’s through sweepers; he set the car up in understeer, then oversteer and then neutrally in the same long corner on successive laps. Too soon, it was over.

Back at Les Ulis, weeks earlier, a team member had said: “We excel at chassis development here. You will see.” It hadn’t struck me as excessively modest at the time, but it would seem he was right.

 

autocar.co.uk

Modificato 27 Maggio 2016 da superkappa125

[marcolino1969]

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https://abordoconmarcolino.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/clio-rs-16-gallery/

 

[dallas]

Non ho parole! Finalmente con il manuale (anche se l'EDC sulla RS Trophy non sfigura affatto quanto a rapidità, differentemente da altri modelli non RS) e ancora più estrema! Chapeau.

[kire_06]

Ottima mossa la scelta del cambio manuale! 

[J-Gian]

4 ore fa, superkappa125 dice:

Si chiama RS 16 ed è stata presentata ufficialmente. Motore della Megane RS e cambio manuale. Probabile edizione limitata.

 

 

Quindi è un concept o una versione produzione?