Review: Pas De Voiture Survirage Renualt 5 Turbo '80
The Renualt 5 Turbo lacked just one thing, handling...
Which, I think you'll agree, is quite important for a car.
This car handled like junk, requiring a delicate hand(s) to drive at any sort of speed. The car didn't really seem to have any grip, it would just slide if you made the slightest erratic movement and had the most horrific understeer!
Now, down to the tune. If you're looking to chase lap times then this is not the tune fore you, in fact with the new tune the best I could manage was about 0.4 seconds slower than the original tune. However, what this tune does is make it race-able.
The RVR tune gives it a much better feel and handles as if it has new tyres. The switch of the tunes feels like the difference between sports soft and racing soft (I can assure you I was using the right tyres!
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Swift direction changes are a breeze and the mega oversteer it had before is almost all gone!
Overall it is clearly a tune for the people who have problems controlling the orignal set up (believe me I'm not going back!
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The slower time might seem bad but a lot of that is due to the change in transmission, which is clearly set up for a track with longer and faster sections. Wack this down and you get almost identical lap times as before, only with more control.
As I said this tune is an ideal set up to turn your R' 5 race ready! I can't wait to try out it's big daddy....
Trial Mountain Circuit Times:
Standard tune: 1:30.956
RVR tune: 1:31.358
Current Leaderboard:
- Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 '09- 1:22.972
- AMUSE Nismo 380RS Superleggera- 1:23.078
- Hommell Berlinette RS Coupe- 1:28.650
- Renualt 5 Turbo '80- 1:31.358