Renault
Among the 498 Renault entries in the MotorJury library, the Renault R27 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Renault R27, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.
On paper, the Renault R27 reads like this: quoted output is >750 hp @ 19,000 rpm | Gearbox name = Renault | Gears = seven-speed + reverse | Type = instantaneous shift | Differential = | Fuel = Elf Atmo 98.5 RON | Lubricants = Elf Evolution ; kerb weight is recorded at 605 kg with driver, camera and ballast | Front suspension = Carbon-fibre double wishbone, with pushrod and rocker operated inboard torsion bar/damper units. | Rear suspension = Car. Worked together, those figures give roughly 1240 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Renault's own catalogue the Renault R27 sits alongside the Renault 10, the Renault 10CV, the Renault 11CV, the Renault 12. The record names the R26 | Successor = R28 | Team = ING Renault F1 Team | Drivers = 3. Giancarlo Fisichella / 4. Heikki Kovalainen| Chassis = Carbon-fibre and aluminium honeycomb composite monocoque | as its predecessor and the R28 | Team = ING Renault F1 Team | Drivers = 3. Giancarlo Fisichella / 4. Heikki Kovalainen| Chassis = Carbon-fibre and aluminium honeycomb composite monocoque | Length = 4800 mm | as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Pat Symonds / Bob Bell / James Allison / Tim Densham / Martin Tolliday / Tad Czapski / Robin Tuluie / Dino Toso / David Wheater / Rob White / Axel Plasse | Predecessor = R26 | Succ.
The Renault R27 also has a competition record: 0 | Cons_champ = 0 | Drivers_champ = 0 | Poles = 0 | Podiums=1| Fastest_laps = 0 recorded wins from 17| Wins = 0 | Cons_champ = 0 | Drivers_champ = 0 | Poles = 0 | Podiums=1| Fastest_laps = 0 starts and 0 | Drivers_champ = 0 | Poles = 0 | Podiums=1| Fastest_laps = 0 championships. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.
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Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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