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2013 Frankfurt Motor Show: Renault Megane Line Gets Facelifted
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TTAC Staff
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Published: September 9th, 2013
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The Mégane Renaultsport that our E.I.C pro tempore liked so much is going to get a new look along with the rest of the Mégane lineup. The idea is to harmonize the Mégane, one of Renault’s core models, with more recently introduced cars like the Clio, to strengthen brand identity. The changes include the larger grille that is used on the company’s latest models along with a new bumper, hood and elliptical headlights.
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Published September 9th, 2013 10:19 PM
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It's hard to tell from the pics but I'm not sure I like the styling. It's got that weird, artificially high hood. It looks like a Honda. I liked the one two generations ago that looked like a squat Aventime. The 4-door not the 2-door.
These strike me as being very attractive modern Volkwagens -- just swap out the Renault logo with the VW, and voila, a Golf with styling that references the original without being a Challenger-like throwback to it.
Reg; "Boy talk about gluttons for punishment." If you can't appreciate the unique flavor of Renault's, Citroen's, and Peugeot's, your really missing out, and your gear head cred is... suspect. Take another look, or wrangle a drive in an old or new, French car. In the early seventies I acquired several nice new European_German/English cars, but the ones that I really wanted were a Citroen SM and the Renault Alpine.
I love cars as mobile art. With that said, I'd love a Megane RS or Citroen DS3 for myself and a DS5 for the wifey. French cars still have that Gaellic funky pop-art styling. Even here in middle-America OKC I see artsy types driving around in Deux Cheveaux'.