Renault’s performance models have been immensely popular in South Africa over the past few years, with the RenaultSport sub-brand especially showing a very loyal following. The RS models are not always within everyone’s reach, though, and as Renault desires to sell cars that deliver sporty appeal at affordable prices has led to the return of [...]

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There is a new Renault Megane Coupe-Cabriolet on the way and it’s set for a Geneva Motor Show launch. Renault say that this new Megane, which is the sixth body type for the range, has the elegance of a coupe with the thrills of driving a cabriolet. Last time I checked though taking a perfectly [...]

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Konfusing Koleos
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Renault’s Koleos SUV is one of those vehicles that’s fairly easy to overlook. In fact, when it arrived we’d not only completely forgotten about the booking, we nearly didn’t recognise what it actually was!
And yet, it’s actually quite the handsome machine. We had figured it, considering the extent [...]

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I apologise. I take it all back, well most of it. I have called you surrender monkey’s, cheese eating surrender monkey’s, I have made many jokes. I have laughed that all one needs to do to cripple your military power would be to burn down the factories that make your white fabrics, because all you [...]

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French manufacturer, Renault, is set to revive Gordini, the brand that helped it achieve a string of major motor sport successes in the 1960s. The blue and white stripe decals of the iconic go-faster label will be back on two special versions of the French firm’s top-selling supermini models next year.

After being previewed at the [...]

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Size matters
I don’t really have anything against small cars. Super-minis. City cars.
They’re often pretty funky, and they certainly serve a purpose. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly hip young urbanites, largely much prettier than I am, seem to rather like them too, so who’m I to say otherwise.
It’s just that, well, they really don’t do [...]

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