yeah the car has very friendly limits - breaks grip easily at both ends and nicely adjustable if you really provoke it :-)
By the way, I find if you really get comfortable with a car's behaviour once you breach the limits you have a bit more confidence to push up to the limits during normal...
nah, just having some fun playing with the limits of the car.
Spent plenty of time driving smoothly as well but just cut together these few corners of hooliganism to show how easily the car can be thrown around :-)
Here are a couple of short videos of a recent track evening with the Clio 200.
It was my third track event with the car so starting to get along quite well with it now. Great car for trackdays :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AncDVB4fx0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHrZm8Ehfqo
Let us not argue about whether the Trophy or the 200 is better.
Let us instead be happy that Renaultsport's fine tradition of building utterly awesome hot hatches continues apace.
My Clio 200 is almost 8000km now.
I've owned a SC'ed MCS Works, a 182 FF and a Trophy but the Clio 200 is my clear favourite. It's the best looking in my opinion (though not in photos to be fair), it has the best chassis, feels the most powerful and has by far the best brakes.
It's also...
This is a new company offering driving tours through Switzerland, France and Germany.
There is something for everyone, with track driving, road tours, a Renault Alpine Rally, first class accomodation, etc.
There are long weekends and also week-long tours available.
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I was worried this post might degenerate into this sort of mud-slinging activity.
My intention here was to give a fair and honest comparison between the 200 and the Trophy.
Both are awesome cars and will provide endless hours of driving pleasure. Some prefer the Mk2's, some prefer the Mk3's...
High praise indeed! Much appreciated.
It's always difficult to be objective of course and they are both fantastic cars. Try a 200 on a good road though, and you won't be disappointed.
I loved the Trophy and thoroughly enjoyed my 12 months with it, but one lazy Saturday afternoon I read about the Clio 200's top-5 finish in eCOTY and casually trundled down to the local Renault Garage to see what all the fuss was about.
Three days later I placed my order.
There has been a lot...
Hi Luca,
I just bought one of these, absolutely awesome car.
In Switzerland that spec would cost over 40k swiss francs if you specced it all separately, I got mine for 33k with renaultsport matts, roof rails and ski rack thrown in!
Mine is Number 8 of the 50 that are being built for the...
Sounds similar to what I experienced on my test drive, minus the losing it on a pubic road [-X :D
I think it is faster than the Trophy - might not feel that much faster because it's a bit more planted and less frantic about it, but faster all the same.
I get mine in three weeks so I'll...