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How Your Renault Dealer Will Make You Young Again

Tell you what, being young wasbeing a seven year old and long for
brilliant. Yes, I know I'm only 24 now,something socially acceptable to feel
but I'm talking about when I was six orlike this all the time. Seventeen years
seven and could play with my toy cars,later and it appears the local Renault
build vehicles that defied the laws ofdealer is on hand to make this story
physics out of Lego and race my dad oncome full circle.
Scalextric. Sitting in the cinemaDue to the success of Renault in Formula
recently I watched Speed Racer (IOne in recent years and that their
believe I make up exactly 100% of theproduction cars are selling like hot
world's population that has viewed saidcakes thanks to creative styling,
film) and I really rather enjoyed it.competitive pricing and good reliability
Set in the future, the crux of the filmsome bright spark in marketing thought
revolved around a lad handily calledup a way of combining the lovable Clio
Speed Racer who raced around a full sizewith Fernando Alonso and co as they tear
Scalextric track in a futuristic car.up the track around the globe. Welcome
Many gravity defining minutes later,to the RenaultSport Clio 197 F1 R27 -
with bright neon lights whizzing past mycatchily named it's not. Aimed squarely
eyes I was hooked - the drive home neverat men wanting to regress to childhood
seemed so slow and boring.and competing against the likes of the
This got me thinking, is it sociallyHonda Civic Type R, Mini Cooper S and
acceptable for a 24 year-old man to pushGolf GTi, the hot Clio has a lot to
toy cars around the floor? Or how aboutcontend with to be successful.
digging out some Lego again? After muchI like to remain impartial when
deliberation I decided against this as Ireviewing a car, but put simply the R27
hope to hold on to my latest girlfriendlooks so jaw-droppingly awesome that
and crying to her over swallowing a Legoeven if the rest of the car was rubbish
brick isn't attractive. Finally then Iit wouldn't matter. Finished in the
opened the dust covered box to mybrightest yellow, fitted with a
Scalextric and I'm not ashamed to say Iwide-arch body kit, more air vents than
spent all weekend assembling, tweakinga skyscraper, Recaro racing seats,
and then racing around and around untilunique graphite alloy wheels and the
my trigger finger went numb. Themost gorgeous F1 inspired rear diffuser,
collection of cars I'd amassed surprisedthe R27 instantly sent me back to 1991.
me too, I have everything from NASCAR,The fun however doesn't stop on the
Formula One, super cars, British Touringoutside as the R27 sits on Renault's
Cars and Le Mans racers. Despite thislatest racing chassis which is 27
clearly showing I was spoilt rotten whenpercent stiffer at the front and 30
I was a lad, it also drove home thepercent at the back than previous sport
point that the only car I can rememberversions and makes the car feel like
was not the shiny Ferrari or limited toit's on rails, turning every road into a
100 edition of the Jordan Formula Onegiant Scalextric track.
car, but the 1991 Renault poweredThe driving experience gets better when
Benetton Formula One car with the frontyou consider why it's got 197 in its
wing missing due to a high speedname - that'll be the amount of horses
collision with my dad.crammed under the bonnet. A six speed
I think it's the circumstancesgearbox helps get the power to the road
surrounding me acquiring the car thatas quickly as possible although you'll
made it my favourite. Having beenwant to drive as slowly as you can, not
dragged from car dealership to caronly to show off your racing decals but
dealership with my parents I finallyto conserve petrol as it's probably
found a nice seat to be bored on at arocketed another ten pence a litre as I
Renault dealer. In front of me stood awrite this.
glass cabinet towering upwards andOnly 500 will be made available in the
halfway up I could see this brilliantUK through your Renault dealer, with
toy. The Renault dealer knew the scoreequally limited availability worldwide
and struck up a deal that involved memeaning a £1,500 ($3,000) topping
getting the car and my dad parting withup of the price. Put simply this car
lots of pictures of the Queen for amade me feel seven again and that - to
turbo-charged Renault 25. Even now whenquote a well known television commercial
I think of that story I regress back to- is priceless.



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