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R5, to the table!!

Year 1981, France: Jean Ragnotti and Jean-Marc Andrié take a long drink of Moët after finishing the Monte Carlo Rally in first place at the wheel of the new Renault 5 Turbo. A great victory for a great race.

Little people

It's no secret: we love cars, we love trucks, and we're crazy about motorcycles. And what's behind them all? People. People who imagine them, design them, drive them, build them, tune them, and love them just like we do.

F.I.F.O.

There's an acronym that's widely used in computer science jargon: F.I.F.O., which means "first in, first out". In the world of motor racing, drivers undergo pre-race training sessions in which they compete to achieve the best lap time and thus secure pole position: the driver who completes the fastest lap and finishes first in practice ("First In", or even "Fastest In" X-D) is the one who starts in first position in the race. A curious parallelism between two such distant worlds.

Countdown

By using a countdown, you can keep track of how many days are left until, for example, your partner's birthday, the start of the holidays, the arrival of Christmas, or... the date SpotModel's special offers end!!!

Two dollars

In the 60s, a barrel of oil cost less than two dollars in the United States... who wouldn't buy that now, right?

Fewer clothes

Summer is coming to the SpotModel warehouse, and our bodies are begging us to put away our coats and scarves and change into swimsuits and summer T-shirts. But how can we do the same to the scale models? We went back and forth until we had a great idea: let's leave some scale models with just a few clothes on...

Where, when, how much...

In rallies and raids, you have to go very fast, as fast as possible. But, you don't just have to go fast; you have to know where you're going and how far you have to go to the finish line, as well as have clear and precise control over your timing. Another important aspect is radio communication, especially in case of an accident, breakdown, or any other setback.

Clio superpower!!!

Back in the 1990s, Renault homologated the supercharged Clio Williams in Group A to compete in the World Rally Championship. To do so, they modified the engine, brakes, suspension and chassis (among other things) of what was already a super-muscled and fast machine. Thanks to its popularity, we were able to see it in a vast number of races with various teams between 1991 and 1993.

AI

Artificial Intelligence, or "AI" as they call this invention for short, seems like something from aliens that has nothing to do with scale model building. Well, we were wrong, because the images at the top of this newsletter, which were generated using AI surely by some scale modeler (and which we happened to find on a social network), made our hearts beat 200 times per minute...

Triple trio of aces

We've asked the most experienced and skilled players, and they resoundingly answered that it's practically impossible to achieve a triple trio of aces in a single game. Well, we did it. How? We'll explain it to you in a simple way; keep reading.

R5, to the table!!

Little people

F.I.F.O.

Countdown

Two dollars

Fewer clothes

Where, when, how much...

Clio superpower!!!

AI

Triple trio of aces

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