Super Car Today: Renault Wind 2010

Renault will unveil the new wind Roadster at the Geneva Motor Show 2010th Not with the Wind concept car at the same point six years previously imported to be confused, this wind is a production car and was made possible by the hardware from the Twingo / Clio duo.

The French call it a “coupe-roadster”, enabled by its metal folding roof hardtop. But, in contrast to other candidate countries, the new Renault Wind 180deg in a simple roof loadbay flops – we are uploading the video to this story, allowing you the ease of use can be seen in action, go topless takes only 12 seconds of twisting manual locking the electric end of their work.

Renault Wind: a Tigra from France!

The wind is certainly quite diddy. Just 3830mm long, in fact, put it slap bang in the Mini convertible / Opel Tigra area. This is hardly a massive market in the United Kingdom, GM corporal punishment only 2900 Tigras each year.

The soft top is an elegant technical solution. At first glance, it looks like the system on the Ferrari 575 Superamerica, but closer inspection shows mechanism is the wind, to be wiser. When you open the boot with the roof down, depends on the aft deck with the roof stowed in tow. Nifty.

The wind is front-wheel drive with a choice of two engines and five-speed transmission:

• 1.2 Turbo
• 1.6 from the Clio Renaultsport

Why does the wind is a two-seater Renault

Despite these bases Twingo, the wind is a pure two-seater. That is enough space for 270 liters of luggage space can be, regardless of the position of the roof. Although we have not yet seen the wind interior, the dash has a unique layout, says Renault.

Expect UK sales of fixed June 2010, price to undercut the Peugeot 207 CC and his ilk from around £ 16,000.