Its story started in the late 1990s with the Clio V6 Trophy, a one-make race series designed to promote the new Clio range. Then, at the 1998 Paris Motor Show, Renault revealed a road-going ...

Before the road cars, the Clio V6 was a racer, made for a one-make series ... More of Renaultsport’s greatest hits are on the way—the Clio 200 Cup, for instance—and some of the best are ...

Any 182 with ‘Cup’ somewhere in its identity will be ... a bigger tailgate spoiler from the Clio V6, racing Sachs dampers with thicker piston rods and remote reservoirs at the front, Trophy ...

Undeterred and confident its supermini could do the bijou supercar thing, Renaultsport pushed on with the design for a mid-engined V6 Clio racer that would spawn a limited run of road cars.