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Paul J said:
I don't think that any of these are feasible.
Jeremy Townsend said:
White colour option. Easy.
Dark anthracite Cup racer rims. Easier.
Revised gear ratios to extract at least 182 performance. Less easy.
10mm lower setup. Easyish.
Cup racer rear spolier. Easy.
Weight saving. Thinner glass, less sound deadeding material. Not easy.
Hydraulic PAS. Not likely.
Thanking you kindly :approve:
Personally, I'm keeping my Cup another 18 months, until MOT time. Then I might start looking at upgrading. Based on Renualts past history, we should be on Trophy 3 by then. Got to hand it to them for always striving foward with motorsport and road going verisons with sporty pretensions :approve:
Jeremy Townsend said:
Lowered ride height by around 10mm.
The option of pearl white paint (i.d) that comes with Anthracite wheels (this alone IMO would shift ALOT more 197s)
Recaros as std with the cup packs
Thin Front glass
Alloy Bonnet
Xenons, Climate, and recaros AS std (with the option to delete)
A even more sporty cat to get the car to 200ps
Revised gearing.
Chances of that happening............NIL lol I do think white paint would sell the car though. Look at the integra and the golf gti. People want white cars lol
So would I lol , pretty much go to renault and buy one now lol
TBH i would buy the current car as it is, if pearl white ID paint and antracite alloys option came out LOL
I test drove a 197 & walked away in dismay at how slow it was. I was ready to order ! I will now be ordering something else with similar performace to my 182.
From what the sales person told me I was the 20 person to test drive the car . He had only managed to get 1 order & that was from someone who did not drive it.
He said he had had lots of people in with 172's & 182's looking to upgrade but they all just told him it was too slow compared to what they already had & nobody ordered.
When will Renault address this problem ? It needs a Turbo to shift the Flab ! The car is already a bobby basic spec out of the box copared to a 182, so how can they make a significant impact to the weight ? It just looks as though after years of buying fast clios i will be left sorely dissapointed ! No more pennies of my money will be going into Renaults pocket until another fast clio is launched ! & they 197 is just not it .
From what the sales person told me I was the 20 person to test drive the car . He had only managed to get 1 order & that was from someone who did not drive it.
He said he had had lots of people in with 172's & 182's looking to upgrade but they all just told him it was too slow compared to what they already had & nobody ordered.
When will Renault address this problem ? It needs a Turbo to shift the Flab ! The car is already a bobby basic spec out of the box copared to a 182, so how can they make a significant impact to the weight ? It just looks as though after years of buying fast clios i will be left sorely dissapointed ! No more pennies of my money will be going into Renaults pocket until another fast clio is launched ! & they 197 is just not it .
Megane is getting old now, it could really do with pentioning off & the engine dropping into the clio. I would deffo order a clio if it had the megane power unit. But not with its current detuned 182 unit !
cock mobile.
How is it a detuned unit? It's producing more power from the same block; therefore it's a more tuned engine.
There is bound to be a Cup version.
The car is deffo slower
0 - 100 18.7 sec for a 197
0 - 100 17.0 sec for a 182
30 - 70 7.3 sec for a 197
30 - 70 5.8 sec for a 182
That is a boat load slower & it feels it, it just has not got enough torque to shift its flab.
The power is not the problem it low on torque & too heavy.
