2008 Liquid Yellow Renault Sport Megane R26

[Ed Doe]

Good to see you've not got 306 blinkers

Epic engines in these, my mate I come to FCS with convoys with me in a blue one of these.

They are good cars but having seen how badly they crash, i'd never buy one.

Even my mates blue one handbrake failed, rolled down a hill into a car & it folded the front end up!

Good choice though, again not my cup of tea if I was spending £8k on a car, but its decent to see something different than the typical every day Leon Cupra's & VAG's etc.



Nice one

Cheers mate as before, I'm interested in what you'd have gone for as an alternative to the Meg? As I said to CAR, having had a bloody hard look about I couldn't find anything more suitable that I'd actually want. Sure realistically I could have spent 3k on a BMW 320d e46 tourer and got good mpg, probably good reliability and generally more refinement and a more mature car as a whole, but f*ck getting an old man's car now!

I have to say Ed, I'd have had a good Corrado VR6 and 5 grand in the bank rather than this, I hate the look of them, and I just hate Renaults in general, but I've had a go in one belonging to a mate from work and they are VERY quick and a proper laugh in the bends, and I know what you mean about the ride, very firm but somehow quite comfortable, and very well damped. They fall into that category of "a bit too fast to properly thrash on the road" for me, that was why the Skoda bored me, because to get near its limits I had to be doing silly speeds. A 205 GTI with 130bhp in 900kg is more for me. Does look like a bloody minter though, and strangely I quite like that colour...

Could you really have a Corrado as a daily though? Plus the vr6 is a wet engine for the displacement. Makes a lush noise but doesn't really go anywhere with it. Unless you turbo it or whatever. But that's getting back into a heavily modified car again that's what I'm trying to get away from, at least temporarily.

I do kind of take your point about thrashing it to the limit on a public road, the limits are higher, but then it's still fun near the limits. And the overtaking ability I'd really still genuinely surprising...

At the end of the day I was looking for a newer car with as much of the character of an older car to drive, but without the rattles, unrefined interior and ride etc. Something a bit more grown up.



In liquid yellow.....



Yeah I'll let you riddle that out! Lol!