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Distinguishing the special edition from the Clio RS EDC Trophy on which it is based, the RS 18 gets blacked - out wheels, a diffuser, special badging and black paint — an inverted take on Renault's current F1 livery.

The carbon fiber finish to the body is highlighted by copper accents to emulate traditional F1 livery and that color scheme gets thrown on the interior with specially trimmed bucket seats with gold piping and exclusive Lotus F1 Team Special Edition appliqués.

Another cool Ferrari that looks mega with a F1 livery, the Haas colour scheme isn't the most eye - catching but it's been done very well.

See if you can get more than 70 % in our latest quiz, by matching the zoomed - in photo of a F1 livery to the right team.

StardustSR has gone about redesigning the entire 2016 F1 grid and while it's unlikely that modern day F1 liveries will ever look this cool, hey, we can dream right?

Last month FIA director Charlie Whiting unveiled changes to driver names and numbers on F1 liveries, in order to make them more recognisable for fans.

Not exact matches

This year's crop of F1 machines are some of the best looking we've seen in years, in part thanks to the new rules and also a couple of livery changes too.

But how well do you know F1 team liveries?

The revised livery comes as a result of a sponsorship agreement with Austrian water technology company BWT, making it the first pink car in F1 since the 1992 Brabham BT60B as raced by Damon Hill.

There's nothing wrong with a monochrome livery but in a year where colour has made a welcome return to the F1 grid, the complete lack of it on the VJM10 really shows the complete lack of creativity in the design.

In a year where colour has made a triumphant return to the F1 grid it might seem weird that I've put this as the second best livery on the grid.

For years F1 fans have been crying out for McLaren to go back to an orange livery, but Ron Dennis» obsession with being straight - laced and corporate meant that for year after year we got variations of silver and grey.

The greatest and most successful privateer F1 team of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Moss.

To make matters worse, McLaren's livery for the Indy 500 turned out to be absolutely awesome, with many wishing that the team had gone with that design for its F1 car.

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes (who are sponsored by Vodafone) shocked the world by revealing that their new MP4 / 28 had a chrome livery, whilst Ferrari shocked no one by calling their car the F138, so called because it's the 138th different naming convention they have used for their F1 cars.

The Mastercard Lola team was one of the worst F1 teams in history and to make matters worse, their livery was incredibly messy.

In F1 there's more to liveries than just good or bad ones.

Also whilst it was pretty ugly compared to some of the other liveries around at the time, if it cropped up on a modern F1 car it'd probably go down as a classic.

One of the most iconic and influential of all F1 cars, made even better because it had the classic black and gold JPS livery.

While this Force India livery might not be their best one ever, the smart maroon, gold and white livery certainly would have stood out on the F1 grid.

It wasn't the first time though that an F1 team launched a kick ass testing livery only for the main one to be no where near as awesome.

With Force India going for a striking pink livery this year, F1 2017 should throwback 25 years to the last time we saw a pink car in F1 - the 1992 Brabham BT60B.

Graphic designer Daniel Crossman has put some classic colour schemes from towards the end of the tobacco livery era on some modern F1 cars and, well, they look great.

Some of the most iconic liveries in F1 history were thanks to tobacco sponsorship and these designs show they'd still look good today

There have been some brilliant liveries in F1.

There's just one disappointing thing about the Group C / F1 crossover liveries... that there aren't more of them!

Ferrari's classic red livery looks good on any F1 car, but the F2007 is arguably the most beautiful in recent years.

Some of the most iconic liveries from motorsport are from the Group C era, and they've now been zapped into the modern age on current F1 cars.

Group C not only produced a lot of awesome prototype race cars but it also featured some epic liveries — which look very, very nice on F1 machinery

This year you'd be excused for thinking that F1 teams got some kind of bargain on black paint with the amount of monochrome liveries that are around.

First up, Wright — from his website Get Wright On It (love the name)-- created an X-Wing livery based on this year's Ferrari F1 car.

Stuck had a reasonable F1 career in the 1970s and went on to win Le Mans in 1986 and 87 driving a 962 with the classic Rothmans livery.

It's fair to say they look absolutely stunning on a current - spec F1 car, and some — such as the Peugeot 905 Evo 2 — have the aggressive, edgy vibe that modern liveries lack.

Graphic design genius Sean Bull has created this brilliant mash - up, to see what Group C's famous liveries look like on 2017 F1 cars.

It also just goes to show how awesome Le Mans liveries from the past are, compared to current F1 designs and colours.

Martini's white livery with red / blue stripes has added a touch of glamour and nostalgia to the F1 grid.

McLaren went all out for its 1997 F1 car launch, with the Spice Girls — at the time, one of the biggest music acts in the world — performing at London's Alexandra Palace for the unveiling of the new MP4 / 12, signalling a new livery direction with the black and silver West colour scheme.

The Audi to F1 rumours are constant, it seems there are new murmurings every week or two about the car maker joining the grid in some capacity (and more excuses to use Sean Bull's concept liveries).

There's also a revised livery on the Ferrari for the 2017 F1 season, with some more flashes of white in comparison to last year's machine.

The Swiss outfit also has a brand - new livery for the up - coming F1 campaign, ditching yellow in favour of gold, adding more white and retaining the striking blue from past seasons.

Well, with the rule coming into force for this weekend's Spanish GP, several F1 teams chose to unveil their minor livery updates on Wednesday and Thursday before the on - track action begins.

It's safe to say the RA107's livery remains one of the strangest in F1.

But what would it be like if an F1 car featured the livery of individual characters?

Now we've had our first look at the very orange livery two - time F1 champion Alonso will run at the world - famous IndyCar race, following on from McLaren's move to the bold colour in F1 this year.

Graphic designer Sean Bull has taken some of these more obscure teams and put their liveries onto a 2018 F1 car.

With the freshly revealed McLaren MCL33 adorning the striking papaya livery as homage to its past, the question on the lips of fairly new Formula One fans might be: Why is papaya so significant to the McLaren F1 team?

From the design process to paint application and even weight saving, a lot goes into putting together the livery for an F1 car

There's only so many times you can see the same old McLaren Marlboro livery on a modern day F1 car but these designs from Sean Bull have been done the other way around.

The FW14B from the 1992 is undoubtedly a fan - favourite, partly because Nigel Mansell drove it to his one and only F1 title and also because it was a stunning car with a super-classy livery too.