LAST AUTO NEWS – MEGANE GTI BLASTS IN
Last Auto account – Megane GTI blasts in Renault accoutrements for Golf GTI and Focus ST with affronted hot hatch.
Things are absolutely hotting up at Renault. Following the barrage of the three-door Mégane at the Paris Motor Appearance endure week, Auto Express can acknowledge plan has already amorphous in ardent on a flagship Renaultsport adaptation to alter the approachable R26.
It’s set to hit showrooms in a year’s time with a amount tag of about £20,000. The ablaze hot auto will yield on the Volkswagen Golf GTI and Ford Focus ST in a area that’s accepted badly acknowledged for the French architect in contempo years.
We bent the achievement three-door around apparent at the Nürburgring chase ambit in Germany – and our absolute illustrations appearance how the accomplished archetypal will look.
At aboriginal glance, the ancestor – which was spied ability testing – resembles the approved three-door Mégane. Study it closely, however, and there’s a axial tailpipe – a brand of Renaultsport editions – while the wheels, tyres and brakes are abundant beyond than on the accepted model. The final car will accept actual advancing administration with a abysmal foreground spoiler, lots of air intakes and a abounding bodykit with artificial inserts.
Under the bonnet, the car will stick with the accepted R26′s 2.0-litre turbocharged engine, bearing at atomic 230bhp. The new Mégane weighs beneath than the approachable archetypal in accepted guise, and the hot bear will use ultra-light abstracts to
shed even added pounds.
That should advance to a 150mph top acceleration and a 0-60mph time of beneath than six seconds, additional bigger abridgement and emissions than the R26. A able electronically controlled cogwheel will advice maximise the front-wheel-drive car’s
traction; the weight abridgement will account handling, too.
Building on the activating advances fabricated on the approved Mégane, and with bigger activity and grip, the new car should be fun to drive. Inside, there will be racing-style brazier seats and blithely coloured trim with metal inserts. Although the three-door will be the bigger seller, a five-door is rumoured.
So is a backup for the accepted 175bhp dCi diesel, with even bigger abridgement and emissions. The aggregation has a continued history of bearing appropriate editions, so a Cup adaptation is aswell expected.
The Renaultsport Mégane is set to accomplish its official apple admission at March’s Geneva Motor Show, afore traveling on auction in the UK next autumn.
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