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The Mégane Renaultsport that our E.I.C pro tempore liked so much is going to get a new look along with the rest of the Mégane lineup. The idea is to harmonize the Mégane, one of Renault’s core models, with more recently introduced cars like the Clio, to strengthen brand identity. The changes include the larger grille that is used on the company’s latest models along with a new bumper, hood and elliptical headlights.
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It’s a real shame Americans don’t get to put this car on their shopping list.
Raise the ride height 6″, stick some plastic body cladding and a roof rack on it, and make it AWD and it would sell very well here as a CUV. Obviously we don’t have enough of them yet.
Isn’t that called the Dacia Duster?
I agree. This is some beautiful sheet-metal. I’d even take it as a rebadged Nissan hot-hatch…
Not enough front overhang. Otherwise it would be a real success over here. Bwahahahahaha
Look at how the far back, the back wheel sits! Frees up space for back seat passengers and makes the car handle like a cart :-)
Any body work in front of the front wheels is purely crash protections and styling plastic…
Yeah, your post makes sense, so long as you accept the engine as part of the body work and wallowing mass in front of the front axle as a go-cart handling trait.
The engine sits on top of the front wheels. I am fairly sure that there is not enough wallowing mass to matter…
Modern design and all.
It’s a shame most people pronounce its name with only 2 syllables.
People pronounce “Renault” with two syllables because it has two syllables. Same goes for “Mégane”, and come to think of it the entire Renault range.
Am I missing something?
I thought the same thing.
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Reg; “It’s a real shame Americans don’t get to put this car on their shopping list.”
It is at times like this, that I wished I had bought that old shack/villa near Nazar’e, Portugal, and built a nice garage for some of the cars I can’t get here. Most would be French or Italian, though, a lowered and worked Merc 280 SE-3.5 coupe would have to be part of the collection.
@3Deuce27
If you like the French and German cars watch the original version of Taxi that was filmed in Marseille.
I can’t remember the Mercs in the movie, but it was quite a good movie.
Mercedes W124 series 500E sports sedan, the result of a cooperation between Mercedes and Porsche.
Those are easy to find in America on opposite day.
Yes, that would be a good rig for high speed continental travel, but for over there, I would have to track down a late E60 AMG.
But, if I were to spend any significant time over there, an Audi RS sport wagon would get the nod for utility use and continental leaps, with an early NA 1.6L MX-5 for daily use, just like I do here.
It has always irked me, that some of the great long roofs available in Europe, never cross over to NA.
Well, I just like cars, no particular affinity for any, except maybe Maserati’s, Jaguar’s, BMW’s, Opel’s, Merc’s, Porsche’s, Ruh Noll’s, Auburn’s, Packard’s, Cadillac’s, Lasalle’s, Buick’s, Oldsmobile’s, Studebaker’s, AMC’s, Chrysler’s, _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ , _ _ _
Thanks for the heads up on that Movie. I see a lot of great old cars late night on TMC.
Are you talking about that crazy movie that a had a taxi with James Bond/Inspector Gadget gizmos all over it? That movie was on a flight from London to Dallas once and I could barely watch it because it was too silly.
It’s hard to tell from the pics but I’m not sure I like the styling. It’s got that weird, artificially high hood. It looks like a Honda. I liked the one two generations ago that looked like a squat Aventime. The 4-door not the 2-door.
The hoodline is probably driven by the Euro fixation with shaping cars that pedestrians can bounce off of. Not so bad. I do wish they would consider bringing their product to the US. They’re just different enough that they’d sell a few. The European market isn’t going to improve any time soon, an extra market couldn’t be a bad thing. Why not share showrooms with Nissan dealers?
Because the last memory of Renault people have here is the Alliance and Le Car. Oh, and subsequently the Eagle Premier/Dodge Monaco.
It wouldn’t go over well at all.
Citroen on the other hand, nobody remembers when they were here because it was too long ago.
I remember my parents having an Renault Encore/Alliance hatchback and an Alliance GTA.
Boy talk about gluttons for punishment.
They have a Peugeot estate as well? lol
They must have bought them for $12 a piece. My first car was an Audi 5000, so something terrible runs in my family. Hopefully, when my daughter turns 16, I can buy her something equally ridiculous.
LOL me too, but I bought it myself!
Light steel blue, blue velour.
I bought the 5000 when I was 16, with money I had saved for years. My parents did have to help me pay for all the electrical evils that eventually occured.
Me too, age 16. Had been working as a cashier at Kroger for 2 years to save up enough. Something like $2400.
These strike me as being very attractive modern Volkwagens — just swap out the Renault logo with the VW, and voila, a Golf with styling that references the original without being a Challenger-like throwback to it.
Reg; “Boy talk about gluttons for punishment.”
If you can’t appreciate the unique flavor of Renault’s, Citroen’s, and Peugeot’s, your really missing out, and your gear head cred is… suspect. Take another look, or wrangle a drive in an old or new, French car.
In the early seventies I acquired several nice new European_German/English cars, but the ones that I really wanted were a Citroen SM and the Renault Alpine.
So it sounds like they’re the same whether old or new? Good advancement since the 70s eh?
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I love cars as mobile art. With that said, I’d love a Megane RS or Citroen DS3 for myself and a DS5 for the wifey. French cars still have that Gaellic funky pop-art styling. Even here in middle-America OKC I see artsy types driving around in Deux Cheveaux’.