Renaultsport is BBC Top Gear Magazine's Manufacturer of the Year

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA – December 9, 2009: Renaultsport has been chosen as Top Gear magazine’s Manufacturer of the Year in the UK.

A vintage year for the performance subsidiary of Renault, 2009 has seen the introduction of the new pocket rocket Twingo Renaultsport 133 Cup, the new Clio Renaultsport 200 and the stunning Mégane Renaultsport 250.

Conor McNicholas, Editor of Top Gear UK, said, “Renaultsport has been impressing us for years but 2009 was the year where the whole project hit a new sweet spot – Twingo, Clio and Mégane all out in hot form and all of them at their best ever. For services to hot hatches, we salute you".

Now in its 10th year, the Top Gear awards are a global recognition by the TV, magazine and online teams of the best from the last 12 months of the motoring world.

Remi Deconinck, Managing Director of Renault Sport Technologies, said, “The whole team at Renaultsport are honoured to receive this award. We like to think that Renaultsport and Top Gear share some fundamental values: accessible, enthusiastic and professional and with a well-developed sense of fun. Above all, we share a passion for cars and driving.”

Renault Sport Technologies is a subsidiary of the Renault group. Its overall the design, development, manufacture and sale of production performance Models (Twingo Renaultsport 133, Clio Renaultsport 200 and Mégane Renaultsport 250)

the production and sale of competition cars for rallying: the new Twingo Renaultsport R1 and R2, Clio Renaultsport R3 Access and Maxi

the production and sale of competition cars for circuit racing: Renault Formula 2.0, Renault Formula 3.5, Clio Cup and Mégane Trophy

the organisation of international single-make championships (World Series by Renault, Clio R3 Trophies) and Renaultsport Experience activities (trackdays

and factory visits).