Got to check out a super rare car today
 

There is a little specialty place in Hopewell that I go past every once in a while. They are an authorized Lotus sales and service center as well as brokering in classic cars.

On my way past today I saw a Renault 5 Turbo. A car I had never previously had the pleasure of seeing in person. They are very obscure, Renault never even brought them over, a mere 200 were imported by specialty companies, as far as I know most of the vehicles went to Canada.

This is what it looks like:

http://images.sportcompactcarweb.com..._left_view.jpg

Roughly the size of an old Mini with nearly the HP of the new Mini CooperS, it seems like it would be a fun way to get to the corner store and back. The engine is a turbo'ed 4banger, mid mounted, and only available with limited slip diff and 5 speed gearbox.

In it's day it was basically the TypeR version of an econo box that was developed for the various European Rally series around the northern continent.

Ugly at first glance, but then, kinda cool....

it looks like a mini/suburau with a body kit do u think that car will float

like a rock

Ugly on the outside, all business on the inside. you get to drive it? and what were they asking for it?

those cars were on SPEED the other day, the turbo cars were something like 450 horsepower! Ugly, maybe, but killer fast:nod:

looks like a renault le car with a greenwood package.... that place in hopewell is on a corner? looks like a old dealership from the cars movie?

No test drive, I didn't even ask. They know me there because whenever there is a cool toy out front they get to see my smilin face :)

I think the tag on it was $36K or something like that. It was only like 56k miles, but it doesn't look like the cars talents were wasted or sitting in a garage either. The paint is good, but tired and the tires had scrub marks going all the way to the edge of the tread blocks. hehe

Yup, thats the place.

They also have a Lotus Elise, a Lotus Espire V8, Porsche RSR, Lotus 12, two XKE's('68 and '70 I think), a Porsche Speedster, Porsche 914 2.0, and some other little trinkets laying around.

i know that place, they usually have some neat looing rides laying around or in the shop area

Used to love driving past that place when I worked in NJ....:drool: