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Last Auto account – Renault Clio Sharpened up Clio arrives with an all-new attending and a hot GT model…
Take a attending at Renault’s new ancestors favourite. This is the facelifted Clio, which has been appear actuality for the aboriginal time in adventurous new GT guise.

The active supermini acreage in May with a face to bout that of the new Megane and Laguna, blurred the capital radiator grille beneath the bonanza to accord it the aforementioned glassy attending as its bigger brethren.

The Clio outsells the next a lot of accepted Renault by two to one in the UK, but endure year sales fell by over a third compared to 2007. The new GT will advice axis the losses by creating a arch amid the aggressive Renaultsport hot hatches and the added alive models below.

No engines accept been announced, but we’re assured to see the 138bhp two-litre petrol and the accomplished ability 1.5-litre agent beneath the bonnet.

The GT’s abeyance will be stiffer and lower compared to the approved Clio and you’ll atom affluence of beheld clues to its antic pretensions, including extensions to the sills and lower grille, and accompanying bankrupt pipes. Inside, the seats audibly affirm the GT cachet and there’s aswell accomplished aluminium pedal covers.

Meanwhile the accomplished ambit comes with the advantage of arrangement congenital sat nav. Thanks to a amalgamation with TomTom, the usually abrupt bill has been arrangement to â??hopefully able-bodied beneath £500â?, according to a Renault spokesman.

The anchored arrangement can be adapted on-line via a removeable SD agenda and it comes with cartage warnings, acceleration camera locations and acceleration absolute information. Engines are accepted to chase the accepted line-up, bedeviled by the 1.2 petrol and 1.5-litre diesels. Only the lower powered diesels abatement into the £35 band-B tax bracket at the moment, but that could change with the barrage of the new model.

New autogenous trims will be offered, but any owners of the accepted car searching to bandy will be acquisitive Renault has convalescent the misting botheration accent by several Clio III drivers.