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Fish mouth at the front...LOL...I've heard that more than a few times today already. Colour? I've found these pics which are as close to real life as I've seen...

With the ST-2 you can opt for Smoke Grey or Molten Orange seats...nil cost option...but I don't think you can have orange interior with all paint colours. Really? I know I'm still very much in the honeymoon period and it is brand new, but it feels far more substantial than my 200. Some...

​Yep, that's perfect, that is exactly what it looks like.

Why did i get this over a 200T? One word, Renault. Reinforced more and more as I crawl over and explore it, the way it's put together, the way things feel and work (electric windows being a prime example), the manual, everything about it generally puts Renault to shame by comparison. Lots more...

Yesterday I said goodbye to my Clio 200 after 18 months and 30k miles and hello to its replacement, a Molten Orange Fiesta ST. After just under 24hrs which has included 107 miles driven all in, one fill-up (mandatory charts and s**t to follow), 3.5hrs cleaning it of all its transit...

I'm on my way.

My 172 Cup, Ignis Sport, 200, pretty much every car I've ever driven, all of them took a few miles at a minimum to work out what's what with the controls, how they felt, how it reacted. I've only managed 70 miles so far in the ST, I've spent the last 3hrs cleaning it of all its transit dust and...

Tomorrow, 4pm. ​:approve:

I've known about it from day one...must be something in there somewhere as I'm a stickler for reading s**t like that LOL

RTFM

As said already... He may well have been speeding. He probably was speeding. Does that mean YOU are in the right if you pull out causing him to brake/plough into the back of you? No. It's a contributing factor to the incident...but the main factor is that you pulled out causing him to have to...

+1 Also, if the service history is 'MASSIVE' why not lay it out, photograph it, and stick it up on the advert?

I hear this all the time...what exactly does it mean? What exactly do they do? Do they have some miracle way of mating all of the friction surfaces together, or do they really bench run the engines through hundreds of 'miles' at varying loads?

I'm might get there...depends on if my ST is collected on Saturday or not. ​Should be a good morning.

I went past that too, looked painful.

I was very lucky, had been badgering the salesman to find me an unregistered and unallocated one and he found a dealer demonstrator car in Dagenham that he managed to blag for me. Then the customer's car you see above is delivered to the dealership and they notice the side skirt paint issue...

Well, the wait for the ST was killing me (still another 7 weeks to go minimum) so I've cancelled my order for the Spirit Blue one and have managed to jump the lengthy queue and secured one in this colour instead... All going well I should have it next weekend :D

Me too, so I can have a play with it and get the back moving. From the Chris Harris video, it seems it allows you to do just that.

Unlikely, the engine is a Nissan unit and the 'box is made by Getrag. I'm sure Fred said without too much effort they run a very reliable 350bhp on 24hr race cars. The limiting factor is the torque capability of the 'box...I wouldn't want to be the one that discovers at what point that gives up!

At what point do you try it to see where the limiter is? After 5 minutes once the needle's risen or after 20 minutes?

I would agree, yes. Does that mean just about every single other 'performance' car out there is also a complete fail as there are few others that allow total disconnection of the ESP safety net? I expect it is possible on an AMG or a Porsche RS etc. but on the Audi RS3 or Golf R? The Clio was...

Is that what it is though? I thought it was a Fiesta with a pokey lump under the bonnet. It's not been touted as the ultimate driving machine. That was always the Clio's claim.

For me the difference was circa £3k. Yes the RS Clio comes with more but I wouldn't spend money to get any of the things it includes. Navigation, auto lights/wipers, cruise control...are all of no interest to me at all. I'm quite happy turning a knob or pressing a button to do those things...I...

So long as mine arrives when scheduled (currently around 13th July) I'll be taking it around Goodwood on 10th August. Should be nicely run in then so can have a proper play and see if the ESC 'off' is intruding or if it's just the torque-vectoring trying to be clever.

Yep. I started a "Who'll be tracking their ST?" thread on STOC trying to see if there was a group of track enthusiasts and got one response I think LOL

Always off in the Clio. Never had the option in the 172 Cup so when I first took the 200 out I switched it off from the outset. Around Llandow I did leave it on at first in the wet as the surface/grip levels were unknown...it did permit a fair bit of movement but whenever it did intervene it...

From the video he didn't have any issue getting it out of shape...it certainly wasn't being snatched back on-line. He said it was still trying to 'trim' the line on occasions. I think he's feeling the torque-vectoring...and the brakes nibbling away at the front wheels on the way through a turn...

New one makes the old 200 look very very last decade to me. Would have had one if Renault got their pricing right.

Will be interesting to see what he makes of them when he drives them back to back. For now though he still has a lot of love for the Clio. I think when he does get them out together, the weight of the Clio will count against it. Or maybe it won't as the fancy dampers make it all so manageable...

Half is all my 172 Cup ever got to in 8 years and 125k miles. I thought that was pretty much normal. How do you know you're not getting onto the ''warm' map'?