Deliberately, no attempt has been made to blend them visually the wheelarch pressings of the base car’s shell beneath jar unashamedly with the aero shrouds. Fashioned from carbonfibre recycled from BMW i3 and i8 production, with a raw matt finish that makes them look like they constantly need a good clean, they enable the GP to sit on wider tracks without altering the standard bodyshell. There’s something of the cartoon character about the GP3, from its hooped boot spoiler to its giant aero side spats, flaring from the body like the wings from Hermes’ sandals. The Mini GP comes out swinging, from the moment its turbo 2.0-litre four-cylinder fires up with a guttural smoker’s cough, adding a couple of hacking fuel-pop exclamation marks from its stubby twin exhausts. Which offers the hardest hit? Mini name, massive thrills So if you want the most hardcore hot hatch on sale today, one that’s closer to a sports car than a shopping car, these are the two hottest in the world right now. The Renault holds the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record for front-wheel-drive production cars at 7min 40.1sec, and the Mini GP3 too has lapped it in under eight minutes. And both are once-in-a-lifecycle cars – this is the third Mini GP in 14 years (officially, it’s called the GP3), and the third fully committed Megane the first was 2008’s plastic-windowed R26R, the second 2014’s 275 Trophy-R. They’ve also squeezed their production run down to a limited series, in the Megane’s case to 500 cars worldwide (32 for the UK) and a less exclusive 3000 for the Mini (575 for the UK). The price for Spain has not yet been confirmed by Renault, with a rate of 55.000 euros in France.Both the new £35k Mini John Cooper Works GP and the £51k Renault Megane RS Trophy-R have binned their back seats to save weight, waved goodbye to ride comfort with ruthlessly focused suspension set-ups, and somehow squeezed near-enough 300 horsepower through their front wheels only. There is still no specific date for the arrival of the first units in our country, but we understand that it will be earlier, approximately in September. The Renault Mégane RS Trophy-R has begun to be produced as a limited edition of only 500 units, all of them assembled in the Palencia factory. Arrival to the market and prices of the Renault Mégane RS Trophy-R

In this way, he once again became the fastest front-wheel drive in the green hell with his 7:40.1.

the king of green hellĪll of the above has allowed, as we said at the beginning, that this Renault Mégane RS Trophy-R breaks a new record at the Nürburgring circuit, having lowered the time achieved by the Mégane III Trophy-R, the previous generation, by 14 seconds. Optionally a system can be equipped with carbon-ceramic discs 390mm diameter and larger 4-piston calipers. It is a team with 355 mm discs bitten by 4-piston calipers on the front end. In this case they have resorted to the best specialists, that is, to Brembo. In a car like this, a good braking system cannot be missing. In addition, there are optional RS Performance accessories to use other types of settings. The shock absorbers are Öhlins, being adjustable in height and compression/expansion in the front train, being able to adjust the rear as well.

La cycle part has been fine-tuned accordingly, with specific geometries that increase the negative drop, a completely new rear axle and the limited-slip differential Torsos. It uses Bridgestone Potenza S007 tires specifically developed for Renault Sport, sporting the exclusive RS marking.

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