
Renault R8 Gordini Gr.F 1968 Otto 1:18

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Specifications
- Year
- 1968
- Era
- 1960s
- Body Type
- Touring Models
- Vehicle Class
- Group Racing Historic
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 9580010214525
About the Renault R8 Gordini Gr.F 1968 Otto 1:18
TL;DR: Otto's 1:18 resin Renault R8 Gordini reproduces the 1968 Group F touring car as a new, sealed one-piece casting with the marque's signature racing stripes. Its compact sedan shape suits a French touring car or homologation-era collection well.
The Renault 8 Gordini's tricolor stripes over a boxy rear-engined sedan shape made it one of France's most recognizable club-racing silhouettes, and Otto's resin cast honors that with genuine finish quality.
Resin Casting and Racing Livery Detail
Otto builds in resin, which suits this subject's flat sedan panels and crisp livery graphics well, since a cast resin body holds sharper edge definition around the tricolor racing stripes than diecast tooling generally achieves. The body is a fixed one-piece casting, so the entire account of this model plays out on the outside of the shell, the R8's short, upright greenhouse, its rounded fenders, and the period competition number roundel all rendered as part of a single continuous surface. Being new and in original packaging, the paint and stripe graphics present with even, unmarked gloss. Resin's lower mass compared to diecast keeps a compact sedan like this from feeling artificially heavy for its size.
The R8 Gordini in French Touring Car Racing
Renault's collaboration with tuner Amédée Gordini turned the otherwise ordinary rear-engined R8 into a genuine club-racing weapon through the 1960s, and Group F touring car competition gave cars like this one a proving ground across French circuits. The Gordini treatment, a tuned engine and the now-iconic blue-with-stripes livery, became a template for Renault's later performance sub-brand identity. For collectors tracing the roots of Renault's sporting heritage before the hot hatch era, the R8 Gordini represents an important early chapter.
Where This R8 Gordini Fits a Shelf
This model rewards a dedicated French touring car or Gordini-badged display, where its compact, upright sedan shape stands apart from the lower, wider racers of later decades. New and boxed fresh, it is ready for immediate display, and its modest 1:18 footprint fits easily among other 1960s touring cars.














