Renault Sport Spider

The Renault Sport Spider is a roadster that Renault Sport, a Renault subsidiary, produced from 1996 to 1999, and the first road car badged as a Renault Sport. Renault wanted a car in the early 1990s to promote it as a sporting brand, similar to the Renault 5 Turbo a decade earlier, to serve both as a race car in a one-make series and as a road car. Prototypes of Project W94 were finished in mid-1994, a concept was shown at the Geneva Motor Show a year later, and the car went on sale in early 1996, assembled at the Alpine factory in Dieppe. The chassis is aluminium with plastic composite bodywork, and it had no roof. The 2 litre F7R engine produces 150 PS. About 1,640 cars were built through 1999 plus around 80 race-only versions, and a full windscreen version came in 1997.