This Incredible 1980s Renault 5 Turbo 2 Show Car Has a VCR Inside! AND LASERS! (Seriously)
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2021
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In today's video, I drive one of the legendary Group B homologation specials. This one came from Renault, and in theory was based on the humble 5 hatchback. However, like the much later Clio V6, this radically changed the formula. The engine was now in the back of the car, driving the rear wheels. Bespoke bodywork hinted at the performance available and like many of their peers these cars have obtained legendary status. This particular one has some real tricks up its sleeve too...
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I can only imagine that the chap that spent £45k modifying it in period was the best customer of both the modification company and his local cocaine dealer
Sounds like he was the cocaine dealer
@@TomWxm haha! I think the laser show might be too conspicuous, even for an 80’s drug dealer!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug but from the looks of it, we're barking up the wrong 🌲. I'm guessing more ketamine??? 🐴
@@ericc.4292 I don't think ket was a thing as a recreational drug back then, was it?
😂
Those 3 Phillips screws that hold the taillights were the pinnacle of french car design of the 80's!
My car!!! Thoroughly enjoyed filming this with you JayEmm... For those potentially interested in buying the car, the for-sale advert will be posted shortly. I absolutely love this car and will be totally gutted when it is sold. The gear linkage just needs adjusting! I worked on it ahead of the car being filmed, but unfortunately it had come out of adjustment after being transported to the filming location. When it was working right, it was a delight to use. I also have a brand new, quicker steering rack that will be supplied with the car!
Interested to know what you have in mind for a replacement.
What a machine. Love the 80's Group B specials.
@@TheFlyingdeuces a 1840s house that needs work, and a 1971 VW camper with a 3 litre Subaru flat 6! Take a look at my channel, though I don't have a lot of time to record and upload videos. Too busy with life and the actual projects!
Sick car mate i wish we had these in Australia.
Amazing car Andrew
My man spent the equivalent of £140,000 modifying a hatchback, legend.
I remember my father being dropped home by one sales engineer from his company with a brand new "blanc nacré" Turbo 2. As a teenager I found this looked as bonkers as Magnum's Ferrari. The air intakes were so hot you could have grilled steaks on them.
Made in France ...
This car is awesome. For one thing, it has to have the oldest car-spec CD player I have ever seen. Secondly, your point about it being a time capsule is bang on. This is that car to buy for the guy who probably was 10-25 years of age in 1985, and would have done exactly the same mods if they won the lottery, not the "rally purists".
Tv camera in the trunk decades before gopros is awesome as well, wish it was still there. Even if I am a bit too young to fit into the category I stated myself, I would buy it in a heartbeat if I had the funds, its just so 1980s cool. I would rather have a backyard souped up Model T done in 1921, than a bog standard one as well. It just shows off the era they came from so well.
all made in japan
That's one of the best turbo inline four exhaust notes I've ever heard. It's as cartoonish as the car itself and has a lot of variety. =)
Looks like you get to make several gear changes just to reach 100kph, and the car doesn't seem very fast for 200hp pushing
Such an angry, growling little thing! Just beautiful!
Now THATS A CAR! Awesome machine 👏👏👏👏
Yet another car that, back when I started driving in the mid nineties, you could pick up for around 5k. When Jay said it was for sale for 85k, I had to wind the video back to make sure I had heard that correctly! I cannot get my head around how many classic cars, which were once very accessible, now fetch silly prices. Its great for someone selling a car they bought all those years ago, but not for those people on a modest budget, which is most of us.
I had a friend with a 5 turbo in maroon. sold for 250k (:
It's crazy. I remember my mate having a not immaculate but very tidy T plate RS2000 in the mid 90s. We thought him spending £3000 purchase price wise was a lot of money to us lot then. We had no idea where cars like that would end up price wise!
My pal Alan had a Turbo 2 with some race car mods in period. One thing that makes for difficulty in smooth driving away is the small fly-wheel. These are awesome cars for twisty roads!
Later turbo renault stuff while devastatingly quick usually sounds a bit naff on louder exhausts but this snarling, crackling little beast sounds utterly amazing!
Interesting video on a bonkers version of an already bonkers car!
Edit:
The bit at 11:37 where you pass by sort of reminds me of how The Interceptor looked at sounded in Mad Max just before he spins around to ram a couple of the biker gang off the bridge, just a much smaller car but still black and angry sounding!
Love it. Cooler London transport than any new supercar.
Jean Ragnotti doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Do both, Jean. Do both. 🤭
after watching quite a lot off your videos u seemed the happiest on this one !!!
2:53 "Carpeting from a Rolls-Royce..."
3:03 "and carpeting also from a Rolls-Royce"
- OK, I get it. It has Rolls-Royce carpets in it. 😆
It does?!
@@skylined5534
I wish he'd said in the video !
Always remember the advertising stuff for these in the 80s, back in the days when hot hatches had a wonderfull exhaust note...! Anyone remember one of these in the 83 bond film, never say never again...? Magic stuff...! What a bonkers but brilliant piece of fun.....!
Years ago I saw a blue one of these at our local Shell garage. People flocked around it like flies on dog turd. You’re right they are very rare. There’s a guy near me who seems to have a different car on a trailer behind his van most days. A few months ago he had a Gordini turbo on his trailer
As an 80’s kid, this makes me smile. I love the madness and anything with wide arches was just cool.
Excellent! A highly entertaining car, I'm old enough to remember being able to choose between 1 of these and a 924 Carrera GT for 10k. I chose the 924 then tried to buy a Turbo 2 a couple of years later, the price then was 14k so I bought a Carrera GTS for less. Times have changed. I still can't afford 1
That car is insane and so was the first owner
Still hoping for restoring my R5TL, cheers from Indonesia
That sounds absolutely delightful! The intake suck, the turbo whine and snarling barking popping & gargling exhaust…more reminiscent of half-an-F40 than a little Renault hatchback…
Listen to the first few seconds of this video through a really good stereo or headphones 😉
Sounds like an angry baby dragon. Lovely.
What a wonderful thing!
Anyone who doesn't love this has no soul
Great feature car 👍🏻
I respect it for what it is, but I don't particularly love it.
Then again, I'm more Peugeot minded.
I like it a lot, perhaps love it? But I don't £85K love it.
I can't imagine there are 2 of these. I drove this car in the 90s when it went through British Car Auctions Brighouse. It had the smoke machine and I remember semi hidden flashing blue police lights and siren among other things.
Must be the same
Thanks James great 80's beast from France and the answer is definitely 2.8 😮👍👍
I saw one of these blow up on the Marseille dock bypass in the early 90s. Quite volatile engine setup.
I love this. I think I'd install a freeview box somewhere in the front so I could watch digital telly on the CRT. Perhaps add a Laserdisc player too.
I betamax video recorder
The carpeting from a Rolls Royce was so impressive it needed saying twice!
A friend had a 5 Turbo a good few years ago. It looked like something Ali G would have owned. Lowered, big bore exhaust, induction kit, chequered flag wrap complete with headlight covers... it was quick, bloody loud, a right laugh (for short periods), and also a right pain in the arse as it was completely unreliable
It's a Renault mate. They're all STILL kinda cobbled together. The wiring under the hood could be factory, or not. To be frank, factory wiring looks just a messy.
The engine is great, mostly due to the cross-flow Alpine (Gordini) cylinderhead.
They never used it in the later SuperCinq.
The old 5's all had a longitudinal engine, with the gearbox mounted in front. The Supers had a transverse engine and no space for a crossflow head I guess.
The vent in the bonnet extracts air away from the radiator.
And don't you dare not speak in your videos. Your feedback makes us feel as if we're in there with you.
I can agree with most of this as a previous owner of a Turbo 2, once owned by Peter Stringfellow I too appreciated the 80's throwback.
Mine was finished in Pearlescent white but had £1,000's spent on a bespoke interior (by Springfellow) based on the original seats but trimmed in blood red Connolly hide including the head lining, dash, you name it, it was covered in red leather.
These cars do need driving to get the best from them - they are not a cruiser, more a car for a Sunday morning thrash but can cover long distances with ease - they were quite economical on a run too.
Used to drive mine to track days - about 100 miles each way.
Weather made a big difference to performance, a cool damp day being much better than a hot sunny day.
Tyre pressures also made a big difference to feel. Dropping 2 psi on the fronts being the difference between "wooden" handling and a slightly softer but more accurate turn in rather than skittish - most owners did away with the metric tyres and changed to softer compound, wider, larger diameter and lower profile boots.
Thought it interesting that you compared performance to a Ferrari Testarossa .
Worth stopping and remembering that one had a flat 12, 4.9lt engine.
The other a turbocharged 1397cc 4 pot.
What the 5 didn't have was weight.
Round a short circuit the Ferrari would feel overweight - about three sizes to big if you catch my drift.
Fabulous little cars - the biggest mistake I ever made was parting with mine.
Its finest moment being asked to display it at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Great channel.....👍
so many cars are something that needs some knowhow to get the best out of, i mean 911s and hillman imps are worlds apart but fall into the same checks and tweeks that means an enthusiast can get the best out of them (tyre choice and pressures etc etc) and the R5 is no different :)
@@gimble8638 Yes, absolutely.
The Imp was an incredibly tunable weapon.
Small, light and flickable……
The 911 the same but longer…😂🤣😂🎄
I think performance wise it felt more confidence inspiring in the bends over the R5, not so much the straight line performance. I can imagine one of these properly set up with a suspension refresh would be an absolute weapon in the bends though!
And that sound, Jesus it's enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up! Amazing!
yeah Peter was a really nice guy, once was staying on a yauht moored next door to his in palma harbour (he spent most his summer in magaluf through the 90s), really nice guy( behind the flash), to talk to :)
Great video Jay
Great review - more interpretive dance please, highlighting the sacrificial anode wiring of French automobiles! Seriously though awesome car and always loved a sporty Renault, with all those gizmos it's like Knightrider but for the Cotswolds!
I swapped my sunbeem rally car for a gordini and a motor cross bike, this was before speed camaras, it literally flew down the M62,i wasnt the driver of it, but wow could it go and corner as if on rails,loved it.
Serious car ! Super Rare now ...
I just love the noises it makes,, sounds like the monster that was under my bed as a kid 😂😂😂😂😂
that sound WOW
My god man. Bloody brilliant!💯
I know that deep down it's just a humble pushrod shopping trolley engine, but the sound it makes is one of the best ever heard from a four cylinder engine. Nostalgic melancholy is hard to avoid when thinking you could once buy a machine like this new (never mind the show car stuff, blah).
Excellent soundtrack from this.
I don't mind you talking in your car reviews, though I have to say, you doing a car review through the medium of interpretive dance is something I'd watch, though maybe just the once.
Awesome car. Would love to see it in it's glory with everything working. Keep up the good work.
What an awesome hot hatch that was.... I used to drool as a kid when I saw one tested in one of the magazines.
Those are not two tapedecks, the one on top is a CD player……which made it all the more gangster back in the day.
Made by Trio, mind you, for those in the know….
The outro music is amazing
love it.
Remember Radbourne Racing of Wimbledon selling them back in the day.
the exhaust pipe sound is fucking great
Love them. Also It's a review.... Please carry on talking.
I personally don't think you talk too much James. But if you decide to review the next car through the medium of interprative dance, I'll be watching with curious interest. 🤣
Great review, I mean how often do you get the chance to drive a genuine Group B homologation special on the road. The R5 has to be the cheapest entry point, I mean a Sport Quattro/205T16/S4/6R4/RS200 are all well into 6 figures now.
I think these were meant to have the potential for much further tuning in race spec? Hence the slightly bland performance in slightly-warmed-up road spec. More awesome to look at than to drive, so very Eighties. The rear tyres are 235mm, not 275? Fat on a Renault 5 all the same.
This is one car that must not be driven much - mk1 Renault 5s were truly typical of '70s vintage rustiness (I had a 1982 GTL in 1990 - 1108cc of pure fuel economy, no hill-climbing capability whatsoever, fantastically comfortable high-back seats, cornering lean maybe only bettered by a Citroen 2CV and RUST in all the corners) and it will take constant cleaning to keep it from decaying very quickly if it does hit the roads. One for the collector, not the enthusiast. Shame, because I remember SO wanting a 5 Gordini when they appeared in 1980 - one of my junior school teachers had a black one and it was the last word in awesome to a 9-year-old Renault fanatic. Time is cruel!
Looked nifty going down the road so it did
It reminds me of a Picasso: If you gave it to me I would sell it fast, but I understand there will be some people that appreciate it!
Nice car great shirt.
Who's the owner? Ali G?
I'm only here to say that if I had one of those I'd put stickers on the sides that say 'Le Aaaaaaaaaa!'
Impresionante maquina 👍🙋 saludos
I had a good laugh at the opening engine sounds, even before the first word was spoken. What a delightfully absurd thing.
Looks great. Enjoyed this video James.
I think the L motif on the steering wheel mirrors the general trim.
Maybe from the Street Machine magazine era?
one of my dreams
Interpretive dance I love it 😂
............and my 1st 911 had the same steering wheel, Italvolanti
I remember a Renault 5 Turbo 2 being in Maxpower or one of those mags back in the day, makes me think its this one cause the car in the mag had a smoke screen and police sirens etc and was black like this, i am pretty sure its the same car as you don't see many of them and none with all those gadgets which is so 80's.
Great review would love one.
Please do not change the way you review cars jay, you’re much more articulate and descriptive than dummies like Officially gassed, LLF, DMO, Calvis car diary. You are the only guy that really makes me feel close to driving the car myself 👍🏼👍🏼
Who?
Seriously though, appreciate the kind words
I’d like to see a collab with the guys at SavageGeese.
@@SanchezS1998 is savage geese another car channel?
@@williamhackett5713 yes. Based in Illinois USA. They just did a fantastic video on the latest 911 GT3.
@@SanchezS1998 cheers I’ll have a look
It's an Italvolanti steering wheel, quite a few of their steering wheel designs had the 'L' on the boss, I think it was just the 'L' from ItaLvolanti. The Countach Anniversary I think had a similar steering wheel, but this was much later than the Renault.
I remember that steering wheel from a Renault Ritmo Turbo a friend of mine had.
Italvolanti Florio.
If I remember right, that steering wheel moved later into his AR 155 V6 Q4.
Renault Ritmo Turbo? The only turbocharged Ritmo was a diesel and it had nothing to do with any Renault...
@@varmastiko2908
It was a fiat uno turbo
Hell, how did I come up with Renault Ritmo... As that never did exist 😂
@@ldorman Well spotted with that steering wheel though.
Fiat ritmo.
The car the lancia delta was based on
@@alphatrion100
I think they shared the platform, however everything else was different.
Is like Saab, Alfa and Lancia shared a platform together once and the cars had not a lot in common tbh.
One of the first breed of hot hatches.
Looooovvvvveeeee it 😎
Crazy man! What a thing. Oh, and trust me when I say that the car was considered crazy in it's day. It bore about as much in common with a normal R5 as a Saturn IV does to a firework. What a find. Brilliant.
My moms gtl Renault Lecar had same issue with gas gauge lol. A guessing game on the riviera lol
If you figure out which footballer had it made you could improve the provenance :P
Really neat car and a running and driving time machine.
That is quite the noise coming out of such a tiny motor!
Mr tumble relieving his youth
That engine sounds _good_!
That hollow timber to the sound and the little pops on the over-run are just right.
I had a Turbo 2 in 1992 with the 180 kit fitted to it. A bigger intercooler and a wastegate spacer. Mine was fitted with Gotti wheels and fishnet Recaro seats. I loved it but a job redundancy meant I had to sell it. It was loud and mad. Can’t beat a quirky French car.
I've accepted I'm going to get a great car review every time I watch......this pre acceptance of what's about to happen allows me to shift focus from the resulting product and concentrate instead on the shirt Jay's wearing, the real reason we're all here
It's true
like usual great review. idd never lift youre foot of the gas in the corner with these cars, also the peugeot 205 gti is a car with vicious handling when lifting the foot of the peddal in the corner. a friend of mine in the '90 s did this with his 205 gti and he spun out of control and ended up wrapped around a three. this resulted in a broken arm and hip...
I had a 205 nearly twenty years ago, it went sideways once due to a slow puncture, was really easy to control, I had a mk 4.5 fiesta sideways on liftoff oversteer when the 205 didnt, and a punto sideways due to lift off oversteer, again on a corner where the 205 didn't.
I think your mates 205 had something wrong with it. Broken torsion bar or ruined shocks or something.
85K never in a month of Sundays !
It will go for that pretty easily. 80's sporty cars values are going crazy, R5 turbo 2's in good condition (this one is) are going for around 80k. I bought a Ford Capri 2.8i Special over the summer that was in good condition, it was 30k, 5 years ago it was 5k.
I think what makes the 5-Turbo special is not necessarily the performance per-say, but more being on of the bat-sh*t mental ideas. Putting a 200 hp engine in the boot of something that short is asking for people to snap lift-off-over-steer themselves into every tree and lamppost in sight. There's nothing more hilarious than a group of automotive designers and engineers being left unsupervised after being told "make a limited-run halo model".
And yes, that one is so painfully 80's that it's even more cool.
Absolutely fekkin gorjus, wish I had the dosh
That's the most non-turbo turbo's car I've heard in a while 😂
Friggin' laser beams!!!
And a giant "lasorrr!"
No Jay, you don't talk too much at all.
Great noise!
I wonder if this level of customization with gadgets is rather unheard of in Europe? Here in the US, pretty common back in the day, so might be considered quite valuable.
Hard to say without having been there, cant have been very common outside of show cars, methinks.
It all depends on the country. It's not like the car culture is uniform in all of Europe.
As an example I know personally, something like this (in terms of modifications) wouldn't feel too out of place in southern Sweden but would be a completely unknown oddity in Poland or even Germany.
@@fiber3065 I didn't meant to imply uniformity in Europe; sorry
@@fiber3065 Not questioning you, but why would southern Sweden in the mid 1980s have more of these cars than, at the time, West Germany? I know the custom car culture was quite big at the time in Sweden, but can it really have been more people in little sweden that could do these kind of expensive mods to a car, than in all of west germany?
I love that sound, i think i'v heard it somewhere in the nature...o yea, dog growling
Somebody was making naughty road racing videos
What a unique score of a drive. Well done Mr M!
I mean, it's a Renault, eh 5, rear engined, drag racer looks, modified, 80's stanced......
Beautiful. Any questions =2.8 !
Fabulous car, and great review, thanks.
Innit.
Saw original one in ibiza years ago .
You mentioned carpeting from a Rolls Royce as an upgrade twice in the same sentence. Maybe intentional, but I thought it was funny.
dreamcar
It sounds like an angry terrier
James - loving the more robust walk arounds in your latest videos. Very reminiscent of the golden era of Top Gear. 👍🏆
I do it for cars where I have the time, or particularly special vehicles like this
Looks (and sounds by your description) like it's not running enough castor angle.
_Come on!_
You must mention this car´s appearance in the James Bond movie _Never Say Never Again._
These were cool little cars but 85 grands worth of cool? No chance!
It's a group b derived mid engined rear wheel drive hatchback. A piece of Motorsport history. Worth every penny imo
@@Kaisuke971 you can't compare these to the proper Group B racers like the RS200, Quattro Sport, Lancia S4, 6R4. Those cars were AWD and way more powerful (the 6R4 was soon outclassed with 'only' 400+bhp) with them running over 500bhp. This had a tiny 8 valve turbo and RWD. Its not even close to a true Group B racers.
@@davekennedy6315 What's even a "proper" Group B racer ? I get that those cars did run bigger engines than the Renault 5, and that the AWD cars were more technologically advanced, but it still is a genuine road version of a Group B car.
If something even remotely close would come out today, 40 years later, it would also be an instant classic. This isn't just a "cool little car".
@@Kaisuke971 a proper Group B racer is the highly regarded and successful ones, the ones that now go for hundreds of thousands. This is a cool car but race versions made less than 300bhp and its RWD made it useless against cars with AWD and double the power. It was only any good on tarmac, it was old school at launch and things had moved on to AWD and high tech.
A perfect, original example sold in excess of £120,000 a coupe of years back...
Brilliant motor this is. I enjoyed this review thoroughly even without the interpretive dancing lol.✌🏻🇺🇸
It sounds to me like a distraught toddler. Give me a v6 engine any day. I like you so this video was entertaining. 🇬🇧