The New Renault 5 Gets Branded Merch Like This Rad Cassette Player

There’s extra to the stylish Renault 5 than its baguette holder and customizable gear shifter formed like a lipstick holder. The French marque is pulling out all of the stops to make the R5’s revival much more fascinating whereas incomes some more money on the aspect. The firm’s on-line store is already chock-full of branded merchandise, and a few gadgets are cool as hell.

The one that originally caught our consideration was the cassette participant, which was all the fad when the previous-generation Renault 5 was round. Made from aluminum and fitted with headphone and microphone jacks, the Player5 Portable Cassette Player has Bluetooth and a play/report perform. The rechargeable battery lasts for as much as 10 hours and Renault throws in a clean 60-minute cassette. Oh, you additionally get a pencil to rewind the tape – which is a sentence that solely is sensible when you’re previous a sure age. All for €180, which works out to about $195 at present trade charges.

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What else? You should buy a nifty slot automotive race observe that is 3.8 meters (almost 150 inches) lengthy. It comes bundled with 1:43 scale fashions of the 2021 Renault 5 prototype that got here earlier than the manufacturing model and the rad Turbo 3E idea. Both have working headlights and a turbo perform with a devoted button on the controllers. It’ll set you again €115 ($125). 

Another product that we discovered fascinating is a €200 ($217) helmet with built-in brake mild and switch indicators. Alternatively, you may go for a €110 ($119) set of three chrome steel balls to play a recreation of pétanque. Per Wikipedia:

"Players or groups play their boules/balls in the direction of a goal ball. In pétanque, the target is to attain factors by having boules nearer to the goal than the opponent in spite of everything boules have been thrown. This is achieved by throwing or rolling boules nearer to the small goal ball, formally referred to as a jack, or by hitting the opponents’ boules away from the goal, whereas standing inside a circle with each toes on the bottom."

Aside from miscellaneous gadgets resembling beanies, sweaters, socks, skateboards, pencils, pedal automobiles, and scale fashions of assorted sizes, there are a couple of dear goodies. You can spend a cool €2,700 ($2,930) on a bicycle or €3,000 ($3,250) on a surfboard. Reach deeper into your pockets for a foosball desk that prices a whopping €4,200 ($4,500). It’s made by French soccer desk producer Bonzini and weighs 176 kilos (80 kilograms).

As for the automotive itself, Renault has stated the reborn 5 will kick off at round €25,000 ($27,000). A dearer scorching hatch spinoff will observe later this 12 months when Alpine goes to introduce the A290.