Renault Clio V6: The Worst Renault Clio Ever Built

In 2001, Renault built a hatchback that could barely outrun the hatchback it was based on.The doors were standard Clio. So was the roofline, tailgate and badge.But the back seats were gone.In their place sat a three-liter V6 from a family saloon, mounted sideways directly behind the driver and sending its power to the rear wheels.Renault had taken inspiration from the legendary 5 Turbo and created one of the strangest hot hatches ever sold.There was just one problem.The first Clio V6 was terrifying to drive.It cost roughly twice as much as the ordinary Clio Sport, was barely faster on a tight road, and became notorious for suddenly snapping into oversteer — catching out even experienced motoring journalists.Then the company building it went bankrupt.And somehow, that disaster helped Renault finally turn the Clio V6 into the car it should have been from the beginning.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History Written by Losers" — out now!The true story of global power has been whitewashed by the victors and the fixers. This book tells the side of history they tried to bury.👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏁 IN THIS EPISODEWe uncover the extraordinary story of the Renault Clio V6:Why Renault decided to put a V6 in the middle of a ClioHow the Renault 5 Turbo inspired the entire projectWhy Tom Walkinshaw Racing was chosen to build itHow ordinary Clio shells travelled from France to Sweden to become V6 monstersWhy so much of the car came from Renault’s existing parts binWhy the Phase 1 became notorious for sudden snap oversteerHow a cheap Clio Sport could keep up with it on real roadsWhy the collapse of TWR forced Renault to completely rethink the carHow Renault transformed the Phase 2 into a far better machineWhy Porsche engineers ended up helping tune its engine electronicsAnd how the Clio V6 became one of the most collectible modern Renaults━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 LINKS & SUPPORT📚 The book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GP9TKPBH📺 Documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@thatjasonhassett🔔 Subscribe for weekly post-mortems on the cars, companies and engineering decisions that shaped modern motoring.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#RenaultClioV6 #ClioV6 #RenaultSport #HotHatch #TomWalkinshaw #TWR #Renault5Turbo #CarHistory #FrenchCars #ModernClassic #TheCarNerd