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Monday, November 23, 2009

Renault Megane Renaultsport 250


It's added a catechism of whether 'they're' any acceptable rather than 'it', because back the Mégane Renaultsport 250 (RS250) hits dealerships in January there'll be two versions to accept from: Sport and Cup. To explain, both cars attending identical (the Cup's red anchor callipers aside), but the Cup is a harder, added disciplinarian focused car, set up with clue enthusiast types in mind. It has beneath accepted kit, so it's £1,000 cheaper than the £23,000 Sport version.

The closing is loaded with equipment, including covering sports seats, dual-zone altitude control, and automated wipers and lights. But the axiological aberration is with the chassis: the Sport has a softer, added bendable bureaucracy that makes it a adequate circadian driver. There is, however, a £2,000 'Cup pack' that adds the anatomy bureaucracy of the Cup car (which we'll get to) and a admirable brace of leather-wrapped Recaro brazier seats.

It's added than aloof a gimmick too, because there's a apparent aberration amid the two cars. Let's alpha with the aggregate actuality aboriginal though. Adeptness comes from a heavily revised adaptation of the 2.0-litre turbo agent begin in the aftermost Renaultsport Mégane, affiliated to a six-speed chiral gearbox and active the advanced wheels. The brakes are massive Brembo units that accommodate neck-craning endlessly power, which is a acceptable job because the RS250 hurtles from blow to 62mph in aloof 6.1 seconds. Best of its 251lb.ft of affairs adeptness is accessible from beneath 2,000rpm too, which makes it feel accelerated and flexible, although the barking babble from the agent lacks the appearance of some rivals.

But the best absorbing affair about the car is its cornering ability, which is actual acceptable in Sport guise and aberrant in Cup. The above bureaucracy is adaptable abundant to absorb up best alley chastening finer - alike on the alternative 19-inch auto of our analysis car - and that makes it a adequate cruiser. However, the Cup anatomy is 15 percent stiffer, which makes a actual aberration to its council feel and the acknowledgment it transmits from the alley into the cabin, additional it has a bound blooper cogwheel for bigger achievement on the clue and in 'more enthusiastic' cornering. Both cars accept bulk of grip, but the Cup is allegedly the bluff of the two. The accommodation for that, though, is a harsher ride that ability abrade during the circadian boredom of actuality in cartage jams and such like.