It is a testosterone loaded little road rocket with go-kart like handling. The car is hand assembled in Sweden by none other than TWR (Tom Walkinshaw Racing). There are less than 1600 of these hand-built wet-dream-on-wheels in the world and the only reason the car even exists is because Renault needed to homologate it to race it. You heard correctly - race it. The Clio V6 is essentially a slightly de-tuned version of the same car raced in the Clio Cup. And what is the Clio Cup you ask, only one of the most exiting racing series in Europe.


Consider the Clio V6 statistics. The car is not much bigger than a Civic hatchback, but it has a 250 horsepower (230 hp DIN) and a 3.0-liter V6 engine where normally the rear seat and luggage space would be. What a great concept. If the engine bay is too small, put the engine in the rear seat. Who needs passengers anyway? The race-bread suspension is tight and the exterior styling evokes responses from onlookers we cannot print here.

So when Nology chose the Clio V6 as their next project vehicle, they were faced with a dilemma. How do you improve a perfect car? And the answer is: by using the best aftermarket parts from the best manufacturers in the world.


Nology started by putting on the actual wheels that are used on the Clio Cup cars. 17 "O.Z.s', 7x17 in the front and 8.5x17 in the rear. Of course the tires had to be the new Yokohama AVS ES100. In the front they are 215/45's and in the rear they are 245/40's. These two modifications alone improved the handling tremendously. Next was the suspension, which was much more difficult than expected. The stock handling is already impeccable and the Yokohama tires and O.Z. wheels made further improvement almost impossible. It took the knowledge of the engineers over at Eibach with their treasure chest of motorsport parts, to take the handling to a level that even surpasses racecar roadability. Several sets of special Eibach springs were needed to finally get it right. The result? We like it, we really like it.


What did we do to upgrade the brake system? Absolutely nothing! The car already has 13 " ventilated monster discs on the front with hefty four-piston calipers that would smash your face against the windshield if it weren't for the four-point racing harness from Momo. Also from Momo are the racing seats, the steering wheel, pedals, e-brake handle, and anti-skid boards.

And just in case we get bored with the tremendous performance and handling, 3T Motorsports installed as much audio / video equipment as possible. Starting with an Alpine in-dash monitor with DVD player, the audio signals travel through Scosche wiring to a Massive Audio equalizer and 6-channel amplifier, finally reaching 3 sets of Momo components and a matching Momo subwoofer built by Polk Audio. And believe me, if the screaming of the engine, or the G's when accelerating, or the light-headiness when cornering don't entertain you, the stereo will. As a matter of fact, you can FEEL it.


Next came the engine. How much power can the car handle? What mod's would not hurt reliability and drivability? The choice was easy: A two-stage 100 hp kit from Nitrous Express. We knew the engine could handle it. It is built to the highest standards. The engine block with all it's webbing looks like an IRL engine and going the nitrous round would not hurt drivability, because the engine essentially stays stock. However, in order to assure ignition when that hundred-shot of nitrous hits the combustion chambers, we had to improve the ignition system.


There is nothing worse than a weak ignition and loads of nitrous. We installed Nology PowerCore coil amplifiers and Silverstone spark plugs, as well as a Nology PowerBand electronic engine management controller, which was only used to control the ignition timing. Without the PowerBand controller, detonation-caused meltdown would be assured. It looks like the laughing gas really works. Everyone who drove the car had a big smile on their face and no wonder, now, when you push that little button and activate the Nitrous Express Shark SX2 Nozzle, hold on, because now the car has 350 horsepower.

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