{"id":105691,"date":"2025-07-08T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/backed-by-the-v6-25-years-of-the-renault-clio-v6\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:56:54","slug":"backed-by-the-v6-25-years-of-the-renault-clio-v6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/backed-by-the-v6-25-years-of-the-renault-clio-v6\/","title":{"rendered":"Backed by the V6 – 25 years of the Renault Clio V6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The year 2000 was a strange moment in the course of time. Everything seemed new and open, at the same time chaotic and full of possibilities. The world had survived the millennium change, the Internet was spreading rapidly, globalization was running hot, and technology suddenly seemed everywhere. While many looked ahead, Renault looked back – to a radical small car from the 1980s that ignored front-wheel drive conventions and transplanted its heart behind the front seats. Exactly twenty years after the R5 Turbo, a worthy successor was launched on the market in 2000 with an equally uncompromising character: the Clio V6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first glimpses of this machine could already be seen at the Paris Motor Show in 1998, where the show car for Renault’s 100th anniversary stood alongside the new Twingo II and the Vel Satis study. But the center of interest was a vehicle that transformed the conventional Clio II into something completely new. The Clio V6 24V – a creation of the Renault Sport motorsport department – was not a tuning project, but a fundamentally rebuilt small car with a mid-engine and rear-wheel drive. Instead of simply sticking a large engine under the hood as usual, they dug deep into the technology box: The engine was moved to the rear, in place of the rear seat, which turned the car into a two-seater and fundamentally changed the entire driving behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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