The Renault Clio RS is a sports car that has gained popularity for its unique characteristics and performance capabilities. One of the key features of the Clio RS is its well-structured suspension system, which helps to achieve a comfortable ride quality while maintaining control. The springs are relatively soft, which allows for better handling on rough roads. However, anti-roll bars are hollow and not too soft, as they need to manage loads of weight.

The car's design also includes hollow anti-roll bars, which help to reduce weight while maintaining stability. Additionally, the Clio RS has a well-structured engine that produces a distinctive exhaust note when the turbo kicks in around 6.5 liters per second. The transmission system is designed to provide seamless shifting, with a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox that offers improved performance and responsiveness.

The interior of the Clio RS features high-quality materials, although some plastics may be slightly brittle due to the car's relatively low weight. However, this should not be seen as a major concern, as the benefits of the Clio RS far outweigh its minor compromises. In terms of steering feel, the Clio RS is light and responsive, with a decent level of feedback on both the road and in circuit environments.

The engine itself is a 1.8-liter unit that produces impressive performance capabilities, making it an excellent choice for those looking for a fun and engaging driving experience. The exhaust note is also well-suited to the car's engine, adding to its overall charm. Overall, the Renault Clio RS is an exceptional sports car that offers a unique blend of performance, comfort, and handling.

The Clio RS has also gained attention for its impressive handling capabilities on rough roads, particularly in the South of France where the terrain can be notoriously challenging. Despite this, the car handles with surprising agility and composure, making it an excellent choice for those who value driving pleasure over outright speed.

In comparison to other sports cars, such as the Porsche 718 Cayman, the Clio RS offers a unique set of characteristics that make it stand out from the crowd. While it may not offer the same level of steering feedback or interior quality as some of its competitors, it more than makes up for this with its impressive handling and performance capabilities.

One of the key factors that sets the Clio RS apart is its relatively low weight, which allows for improved agility and responsiveness on the road. This, combined with its well-structured suspension system and responsive steering, make it an exceptional sports car that offers a unique driving experience.

Ultimately, the Renault Clio RS is a car that epitomizes the spirit of modern sports cars in the 21st century. By shedding unnecessary weight and focusing on performance and handling, the Clio RS has created a truly exceptional driving experience that is unmatched by many of its competitors.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthey have a Monte Carlo ich rally vibe to the place isn't there snow by the side of the road little damp twisting hair dunes which is appropriate because you join me inside the new LP a 110 it is the rebirth of the album brand Karl at one the world the first ever World Rally Championship in the early 70s the original a 110 and the guy who created the company he said right what I really want to do is make a small sports car that's fun to drive on twisting mountainous Alpine Road NC called the LP because it was French and then after the a one turn they made a few other cars culminating in the a 610 and in the early 90s people stopped buying them it's owned by Renault by that point and out being died now it is back which is brilliant news I've been really excited about this car for a long time because it is in the greatest Alpine tradition small light this is a 250 horsepower car with a 1.8 liter engine behind me driving the rear wheels it has an all aluminium structure so it weighs less than eleven hundred kilos that is like you think a Toyota gt86 is like this is lighter by another hundred and a bit kilos ah brilliant there's a lot to tell you about so we're gonna go to a circuit do some laps I think they've got a bare chassis there would be interesting to look at and then we'll come back out onto the road find out a bit more tell you what it's like okay so welcome to a circuit it's a tight circus ball so I get in places a little bit of a wet circuit in a tiny mere dens in sports gum but our that feeling of agility and that finding get on the road where things breathe easily just seems to be replicated here it turns with such clarity and speed Wow it's delicate steering's like I've got it in track mode which firms up the steering but it still remains quite light really still falls into a little slide and when I know it's damp I know it's cold really really easily really controlling naturally gives you loads of confidence there's still not loads of steering feel even is weighted up a bit I see a seat deactive a what a really lovely agile feeling I think I think it's got a bit more sort of immediacy on turning than say a front-engine car like it to gt86 as well it might because of where the engineers I mean in a way I meet and I mean this as a as a compliment they're a sort of McLaren esque feelings - the way it pivots around its middled I mean it just has that that delicate even balance - it doesn't feel like it's a hugely stable gar in a high-speed corner you wouldn't want to be halfway round up being hardly a corner and then live by dancing it's just got really nice natural balance to it actually it makes a cool little noise doesn't it I don't know if you can hear as well as I can and it crackles to me it pops on the overrun does not sound this good in a Clio so what this gearbox is pretty good actually when it comes just being sort of quick quick up shifts steers really nicely there the shift is a bit slow when you run up to the limiter and it runs up pretty quickly to that limiter it's better than it is in a Clio but one I don't think you miss a limited-slip differential I think that's fine certainly in these conditions because it's not a car with so much power that really feels like it like it needs it just what a delicate adjustable just a gorgeous car to drive bloody hell this might be my favorite car this year it's one of my favourite cars of the last I don't know how long I feel excited about this in a way I feel about about GT 86 actually but more so about this I think because it's got a bit of extra focus even lighter right wouldn't always do this but this is quite special listen you probably hear the cars get passed in the background this is quite a special platform so I think it's worth talking about in a bit more detail because it's compact its narrow its 1,800 millimeters wide and that's quite hard to do when you've got the spoke double wishbone suspension which is quite wide you've got the transverse engine which is quite wide it's just difficult especially when you're working in aluminium this is an all aluminium body it's got mostly extruded bits it's got some cast bits down at the back and it's mostly bonded together and riveted together there are bits at the back because that's where the engineer's that's where the heat is that are welded carbon fiber is too expensive at this at this at this level steel is too heavy at this level so you end up with aluminium but that's difficult because you want the weight distribution to be right bang in the middle so it's 44 56 which means the fuel tank has to be at the front since a few difficulties we're putting a fuel tank at the front one you've got double wishbone suspension which is quite wide I'm putting the fuel tank between it means you've got to get four to five liters of fuel tank into not a very big space to put a new fuel tank this close to the crash structure brings with it its own problems when it comes to integrity because you don't want an exploding fuel tank do but everywhere you look there's just little attention to detail to just shave out every single kilogram out of this car yet still the torsional rigidity is about 22,000 Newton meters per degree which in a car of this way and the loads it's got should be absolutely fine anyway I thought you should see it because it's packaging marvel okay so it's great no circuit it's really interesting under the skin what's it like out on the road you know what it's brilliant it's brilliant I cannot begin to tell you how much I like this car oh god there's so much to tell you it's an eleven hundred kilo gram car and so much work has gone into doing that you know things like that the rear brake calipers have got the parking brake mechanism integrated into them so rather than having a separate caliper it just is integrated into the main caliper that saves about two and half kilos and they've just gone they've just gone through they've just gone through systematically reducing weight reducing weight reducing weight they don't want adaptive dampers there was never the fault of adaptive dampers because adaptive dampers weigh a bit more because the dampers a heavier and then you have to have the actuator which is heavier and bladder well rizona so forth so if you don't have them you save yourself a few kilos so the springs are relatively soft anti-roll bars are hollow and not too soft because you don't have loads of weight to manage but that means that even on what are really actually quite quite tough roads around the South of France because you know they're badly rotted this small they run between tree roots and stuff of that they're a bit like some UK wrote in a way in in in their porous the surface is really bad yet this car breeds really easily in its ride quality it just has a suppleness to it yes it's well controlled I guess yeah you might call it firmly damped but it's not it's not harsh it is not rigid it is just it's pitched where it needs to be steering is light just a little bit more than two turns locked a lot get loads of feedback actually ultimately you get a decent feedback on on a circuit to get enough on the road but maybe I'm expecting a Porsche 718 Cayman kind of cataract which is really positive this is this is good not sure it's the total last word in steering feel if you're comparing it to say the old McGann Renault Sport yeah I had a better steering system to die for this isn't quite there but you know what it's fine it's good enough also fine good enough is the engine no it's a bit better than fine actually there's a little rasp from the exhaust is 1.8 litre unit you get this sort of the odd whoosh and zing because it's a turbo doesn't Rev that high round about six and a half you need that exhaust note because yeah my ninis of the engine itself isn't isn't that endearing but with a little turbo whooshes and the exhaust is quite a nice noise there's 7-speed DCT dual clutch transmission so there are two choices when it came to making the gearbox they said well they we could do a manual gearbox as well but we don't have the budget to do a manual gearbox and the DCT brilliantly so they've taken the DCT which usually runs dry clutches on the Clio and maybe introduced a wet clutch to it that means the progression is much better it's a more refined uni it's more responsive unit and it's good bits but it's weird which is when you lift off that's when it it's fine going up it shifts up quickly enough when you just lift off it sort of feels like it goes into almost like a slightly coasting sort of mode if you were comparing that to the motor and gearbox in a portion of 7:18 caiman say maybe the Porsche has a bit less turbo lag I think this is this this runs it close enough for the sound quality but the Porsches gearbox is I think the level above I think the Porsche is steering is a little probably at a level above - and in terms of interior quality so I'll have a look around in here it's it's fine because it's an 1,100 kilogram car and I think that's a really key thing to remember when you look at some of the plastics and some of the brittleness is that are they good don't get me wrong they're good they're well presented they nicely put together but if you're sort of you know tapping things and thinking right how thick is that piece of material well bear in mind it isn't that thing because this is a sub 1,100 kilogram car alright that's that's the thing you have to bear in mind I am happy to accept those compromises I think you should be happy to accept those compromises - I'm so excited about this car epitomizes all that sports car in the 21st century ought to be lose the mass and you gain so much you gain so much I'm having more fun in this car on this road than I would have in any supercar any supercar whatsoever because they're heavier there's so much faster you have to be throwing the absolute pants off them to get the best out of them to get close to the limits this has got limits it's that bit more approachable it moves with such agility it rise with such some deafness and ah god I just love it to bits out beings got a lot of work to do to build its profile back asthma doesn't mean much to people in the UK doesn't mean much to actually most of the wider work beyond Dieppe frankly but it's brilliant if all out bees in future follow this philosophy then I would love to think that in 15 20 years time we look back and go this is a car that started something really really specialthey have a Monte Carlo ich rally vibe to the place isn't there snow by the side of the road little damp twisting hair dunes which is appropriate because you join me inside the new LP a 110 it is the rebirth of the album brand Karl at one the world the first ever World Rally Championship in the early 70s the original a 110 and the guy who created the company he said right what I really want to do is make a small sports car that's fun to drive on twisting mountainous Alpine Road NC called the LP because it was French and then after the a one turn they made a few other cars culminating in the a 610 and in the early 90s people stopped buying them it's owned by Renault by that point and out being died now it is back which is brilliant news I've been really excited about this car for a long time because it is in the greatest Alpine tradition small light this is a 250 horsepower car with a 1.8 liter engine behind me driving the rear wheels it has an all aluminium structure so it weighs less than eleven hundred kilos that is like you think a Toyota gt86 is like this is lighter by another hundred and a bit kilos ah brilliant there's a lot to tell you about so we're gonna go to a circuit do some laps I think they've got a bare chassis there would be interesting to look at and then we'll come back out onto the road find out a bit more tell you what it's like okay so welcome to a circuit it's a tight circus ball so I get in places a little bit of a wet circuit in a tiny mere dens in sports gum but our that feeling of agility and that finding get on the road where things breathe easily just seems to be replicated here it turns with such clarity and speed Wow it's delicate steering's like I've got it in track mode which firms up the steering but it still remains quite light really still falls into a little slide and when I know it's damp I know it's cold really really easily really controlling naturally gives you loads of confidence there's still not loads of steering feel even is weighted up a bit I see a seat deactive a what a really lovely agile feeling I think I think it's got a bit more sort of immediacy on turning than say a front-engine car like it to gt86 as well it might because of where the engineers I mean in a way I meet and I mean this as a as a compliment they're a sort of McLaren esque feelings - the way it pivots around its middled I mean it just has that that delicate even balance - it doesn't feel like it's a hugely stable gar in a high-speed corner you wouldn't want to be halfway round up being hardly a corner and then live by dancing it's just got really nice natural balance to it actually it makes a cool little noise doesn't it I don't know if you can hear as well as I can and it crackles to me it pops on the overrun does not sound this good in a Clio so what this gearbox is pretty good actually when it comes just being sort of quick quick up shifts steers really nicely there the shift is a bit slow when you run up to the limiter and it runs up pretty quickly to that limiter it's better than it is in a Clio but one I don't think you miss a limited-slip differential I think that's fine certainly in these conditions because it's not a car with so much power that really feels like it like it needs it just what a delicate adjustable just a gorgeous car to drive bloody hell this might be my favorite car this year it's one of my favourite cars of the last I don't know how long I feel excited about this in a way I feel about about GT 86 actually but more so about this I think because it's got a bit of extra focus even lighter right wouldn't always do this but this is quite special listen you probably hear the cars get passed in the background this is quite a special platform so I think it's worth talking about in a bit more detail because it's compact its narrow its 1,800 millimeters wide and that's quite hard to do when you've got the spoke double wishbone suspension which is quite wide you've got the transverse engine which is quite wide it's just difficult especially when you're working in aluminium this is an all aluminium body it's got mostly extruded bits it's got some cast bits down at the back and it's mostly bonded together and riveted together there are bits at the back because that's where the engineer's that's where the heat is that are welded carbon fiber is too expensive at this at this at this level steel is too heavy at this level so you end up with aluminium but that's difficult because you want the weight distribution to be right bang in the middle so it's 44 56 which means the fuel tank has to be at the front since a few difficulties we're putting a fuel tank at the front one you've got double wishbone suspension which is quite wide I'm putting the fuel tank between it means you've got to get four to five liters of fuel tank into not a very big space to put a new fuel tank this close to the crash structure brings with it its own problems when it comes to integrity because you don't want an exploding fuel tank do but everywhere you look there's just little attention to detail to just shave out every single kilogram out of this car yet still the torsional rigidity is about 22,000 Newton meters per degree which in a car of this way and the loads it's got should be absolutely fine anyway I thought you should see it because it's packaging marvel okay so it's great no circuit it's really interesting under the skin what's it like out on the road you know what it's brilliant it's brilliant I cannot begin to tell you how much I like this car oh god there's so much to tell you it's an eleven hundred kilo gram car and so much work has gone into doing that you know things like that the rear brake calipers have got the parking brake mechanism integrated into them so rather than having a separate caliper it just is integrated into the main caliper that saves about two and half kilos and they've just gone they've just gone through they've just gone through systematically reducing weight reducing weight reducing weight they don't want adaptive dampers there was never the fault of adaptive dampers because adaptive dampers weigh a bit more because the dampers a heavier and then you have to have the actuator which is heavier and bladder well rizona so forth so if you don't have them you save yourself a few kilos so the springs are relatively soft anti-roll bars are hollow and not too soft because you don't have loads of weight to manage but that means that even on what are really actually quite quite tough roads around the South of France because you know they're badly rotted this small they run between tree roots and stuff of that they're a bit like some UK wrote in a way in in in their porous the surface is really bad yet this car breeds really easily in its ride quality it just has a suppleness to it yes it's well controlled I guess yeah you might call it firmly damped but it's not it's not harsh it is not rigid it is just it's pitched where it needs to be steering is light just a little bit more than two turns locked a lot get loads of feedback actually ultimately you get a decent feedback on on a circuit to get enough on the road but maybe I'm expecting a Porsche 718 Cayman kind of cataract which is really positive this is this is good not sure it's the total last word in steering feel if you're comparing it to say the old McGann Renault Sport yeah I had a better steering system to die for this isn't quite there but you know what it's fine it's good enough also fine good enough is the engine no it's a bit better than fine actually there's a little rasp from the exhaust is 1.8 litre unit you get this sort of the odd whoosh and zing because it's a turbo doesn't Rev that high round about six and a half you need that exhaust note because yeah my ninis of the engine itself isn't isn't that endearing but with a little turbo whooshes and the exhaust is quite a nice noise there's 7-speed DCT dual clutch transmission so there are two choices when it came to making the gearbox they said well they we could do a manual gearbox as well but we don't have the budget to do a manual gearbox and the DCT brilliantly so they've taken the DCT which usually runs dry clutches on the Clio and maybe introduced a wet clutch to it that means the progression is much better it's a more refined uni it's more responsive unit and it's good bits but it's weird which is when you lift off that's when it it's fine going up it shifts up quickly enough when you just lift off it sort of feels like it goes into almost like a slightly coasting sort of mode if you were comparing that to the motor and gearbox in a portion of 7:18 caiman say maybe the Porsche has a bit less turbo lag I think this is this this runs it close enough for the sound quality but the Porsches gearbox is I think the level above I think the Porsche is steering is a little probably at a level above - and in terms of interior quality so I'll have a look around in here it's it's fine because it's an 1,100 kilogram car and I think that's a really key thing to remember when you look at some of the plastics and some of the brittleness is that are they good don't get me wrong they're good they're well presented they nicely put together but if you're sort of you know tapping things and thinking right how thick is that piece of material well bear in mind it isn't that thing because this is a sub 1,100 kilogram car alright that's that's the thing you have to bear in mind I am happy to accept those compromises I think you should be happy to accept those compromises - I'm so excited about this car epitomizes all that sports car in the 21st century ought to be lose the mass and you gain so much you gain so much I'm having more fun in this car on this road than I would have in any supercar any supercar whatsoever because they're heavier there's so much faster you have to be throwing the absolute pants off them to get the best out of them to get close to the limits this has got limits it's that bit more approachable it moves with such agility it rise with such some deafness and ah god I just love it to bits out beings got a lot of work to do to build its profile back asthma doesn't mean much to people in the UK doesn't mean much to actually most of the wider work beyond Dieppe frankly but it's brilliant if all out bees in future follow this philosophy then I would love to think that in 15 20 years time we look back and go this is a car that started something really really special\n"