LAST AUTO NEWS – CURVY NEW CLIO READY TO GROW
Last Auto account – Ample New Clio Ready To Grow It’s the third allowance of va va voom from Renault – and big is beautiful! The French close has unwrapped the Clio III, and our absolute flat shots acknowledge a supermini that keeps on growing.
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The car stands 58mm college and 174mm best than its accepted antecedent and, with a best wheelbase, too, Renault has created the better Clio to date. Also, the doors are bigger than before; anniversary is 45mm college than on the accepted model, advocacy berth access.
The newcomer has a lot to reside up to; the approachable archetypal was the ninth better agent of 2004, with added than 70,000 examples award homes. Renault has kept that car’s brand ample design, but the revamped apparatus has been accustomed a characteristic block shape. Stylists accept taken cues from the MÎ?©gane, with a bulge active the breadth of the physique into the annular rear end.
Inside, the berth is roomy, and the birr of this three-door Dynamique adaptation appearance a simple, all-button centre animate and all-around aperture controls. The seats are basal but comfortable, and there’s affluence of allowance for disciplinarian and foreground passenger. In the boot, there’s a acceptable 288-litre accommodation – addition advantage of accretion the wheelbase.
Attention has been paid to safety, with up to eight airbags included, forth with anti-whiplash headrests and ISOFIX adolescent bench ascent credibility in the foreground and back. The average rear commuter bench is advised for six to 10-year-olds, and on some models appearance a three-point seatbelt which fixes to the berth roof.
Standard blueprint on UK variants has yet to be confirmed, but all get a full-sized additional wheel. Extras will cover adaptive headlights, an MP3 audio arrangement and keyless-go – the latter, Renault says, getting different a part of superminis.
The new Clio shares the basal anatomy of the Modus supermini-MPV. Transmission options are the aforementioned as for the Modus, too, including the paddleshift consecutive system. Power comes from 75bhp 1.2, 100bhp 1.4 or 110bhp 1.6-litre petrol engines, with a 140bhp 2.0 accession later. There’s aswell a 1.5-litre dCi agent with 70, 85 or 105bhp outputs.
Super-sizing the Clio isn’t just about creating added amplitude – the close has the bigger account in mind. Renault is authoritative allowance for its agilely accessible new Twingo city-limits car. The aboriginal was a hit on the Continent, but never came actuality in right-hand drive. Yet the new adaptation will hit British dealers aboriginal in 2007.
The accepted Clio II will break in assembly until then. That’s because the archetypal apparent actuality is so abundant bigger, and administration feel they still charge a baby car to sell.
The three-door Clio debuts at September’s Frankfurt Motor Show, and goes on auction on 15 October. Prices ambit from Î?£9,000 to Î?£14,000 – almost Î?£1,000 added than the accepted line-up. The five-door follows in January.
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