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Newswheel staff :: 01 June 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, Renault, Renault Clio, Europe & UK
Hats off to Renault for keeping faith with the compact hot hatch sector when all others have forsaken it. The VW Golf has swelled beyond recognition in both size and pricing, the Polo GTI is frankly a rather feeble simulcrum of a hot hatch, Ford’s Fiesta ST lacks a certain rawness and the less said the better about Peugeot’s pitiful 206 (here’s hoping for a return to form with the upcoming hot 207). For the moment, therefore, it’s left to Renault to keep the dream alive with the Clio Renault Sport. Now on sale in the UK for £15,995, the latest hot Clio boasts nearly 200bhp as well as a number of very serious chassis mods…
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Newswheel staff :: 01 March 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, Renault, Renault Clio, Europe & UK, Trade shows
Happy happy, joy joy: At last a real, never-seen-it-before Geneva debut. The Renault Clio, er, Renault Sport looks like a pretty comprehensive effort to dominate the hot hatch sector thanks to a new 2.0-litre engine packing a Honda VTEC-matching 100bhp per litre specific output, some trick aero mods and a heavily tweaked chassis…
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Newswheel staff :: 17 November 2005 :: Filed under Hatchback, Renault, Renault Clio, Europe & UK
That’s right folks. The pathologically dreary new Renault Clio is the European Car of the Year for 2006. The Clio somehow managed to head up a 28-strong list of Europe’s finest, including the VW Passat, Alfa Romeo 159 and BMW 3 Series.
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Newswheel staff :: 14 May 2005 :: Filed under Hatchback, Renault, Renault Clio, Europe & UK
There’s an all-new Clio due later this year, and the aggressive RS variant has been cooked up specially for the British.
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