The Gordini models, of which the aboriginal will be the 2010 Twingo Gordini, will aperture into the calendar aloof beneath the Renaultsport achievement line, and will action a advanced ambit of personalization features, as able-bodied as the accustomed Gordini dejected acrylic with white stripes and atramentous admixture wheels. The Twingo Gordini will be abutting in the calendar by Clio and Mégane Coupe versions.
Norman said that both Gordini and Gordini S models are likely. "The aim is to arouse Gordini forth the curve of the MINI Cooper and Cooper S," he said, and appropriate that a Gordini antagonism alternation was accessible as well. With small-capacity TCE turbocharged engines, the Gordini would accommodate a baby achievement addition and acquiesce the Renaultsport models to move upmarket and action added uncompromising achievement upgrades. If you were one of the French hot bear enthusiasts who was aghast by this week's account that Peugeot was accepting out of the game, booty affection – battling automaker Renault has appear a new band of what it does best, while animating a long-dormant celebrated nameplate in the process.
Named afterwards Renault antagonism architect extraordinaire Amédée Gordini, the Gordini brand became a attribute of success for the French automaker. The iconic R8 Gordini (pictured at right) bedeviled ambulatory in the mid-Sixties and gave bearing to its own one-mark alternation with the Renault 1300 Gordini. Four decades later, Renault is bringing the name aback for an absolute new band of hot hatches.
The aboriginal agent to abrasion the Gordini brand will be a adaptation of the Twingo burghal car (above), due to apparent in 2010. The Twingo will be carefully followed by Gordini-fied versions of the Clio and Megane Coupé.
In 2012, Gordini will present an all electric model, utilizing the electric drive arrangement currently actuality developed by Renault for use beneath a cardinal of Renault and Nissan vehicles.
Positioned aloft the absolute Renaultsport lineup, the Gordini ambit will be mechanically identical to its RS counterparts, but analyze themselves with awakening administration touches (like French antagonism dejected acrylic arrangement with white stripes) and an added dosage of exclusivity. The aboriginal artefact in the new range, the Twingo Gordini RS (teased above), is slated to be apparent at L'Atelier Renault – the company's flagship abundance on the Champs Elysées in Paris – on November 25 afore its bazaar barrage abutting spring. Gordini copy Clio and Megane are slated to chase suite, all decked out in the sub-brand's iconic French antagonism dejected with white antagonism stripes.
Reviving a achievement figure to booty on the brand of MINI’s Cooper S is an aggressive activity and abacus a absolutely blooming camber to the activity will not be after its challenges.
With Renault’s advance to action applied and affordable electric vehicles, an attention-grabbing emissions-free hot bear could be aloof the affair to ensure that both electric cartage and the Gordini brand are actuality to stay.
