FOLLOWING ITS UNVEILING at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, Renault has today issued a raft of details and images for the 2010 Renault Megane Renaultsport (RS).

The new Megane RS comes in two guises: Sport and Cup. Both receive the same 184kW turbocharged 2.0 litre engine and driving through the front wheels.

The Cup, [...]

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RENAULT HAS ANNOUNCED that the stylish all-new 2009 Renault Megane Estate will hit European showrooms this month, offering a range of petrol and diesel engines.

The Renault Megane Estate, which shares its face with the regular Megane (due in Australia in 2010), adds a longer wheelbase, longer rear overhang and sporty wagon styling, while the profile [...]

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French motoring blog L’Auto Journal has come across this shot of what is clearly the 2009 Megane Coupe, loitering somewhere in the French capital, ahead of its reveal at the upcoming Paris Motor Show.

Unlike the images in our 2009 Megane Coupe post earlier this week, the model snapped above is most likely to be the [...]

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Renault has announced that its all-new Koleos will soon be available from Australian showrooms, bringing along its own unique Gallic flavour to the SUV segment.

The Koleos is Renault’s first 4×4 crossover vehicle and was developed jointly between Renault, Nissan and Samsung Motors, making the mid-size SUV French in name only. Still, if you were never [...]

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Perhaps prompted by last week’s leaked press shots, Renault has now released a whole slew of photos and pages of information on the new third-generation Megane. The styling of the Megane III is a marked departure from that of the preceding model, with the rather, ahem, pronounced posterior of the current Megane hatch [...]

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Press shots of the up-coming 2009 Renault Megane III hatchback have found their way online thanks to km77.com, and the team over at Jalopnik were kind enough to share the love with a full gallery of images. No grainy spyshots here ladies and gents, these are the real deal.

The ‘09 Megane is going mainstream, swapping the quirkiness of [...]

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You can’t accuse Renault of being wallflowers when it comes to hot hatches. They may look a little ‘unusual’ but the reputation this manufacturer enjoys (and is building on) in the hot hatch arena is one to be envied. Not content with the ‘standard’ Megane F1 Team R26 - a stonking [...]

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Renault launched their Mégane RenaultSport dCi in late 2008 and proving that sometimes good things do come to those who wait, has recently announced the hot diesel hatches imminent arrival in Australia.

The Mégane RenaultSport dCi is powered by a 2.0-litre common-rail diesel that boasts some very impressive output figures. How does 127kW/175hp and 360Nm [...]

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Renault have upped the ante with their new Megane R26-R hot hatch, which takes a distinctly ‘no frills’ approach to performance motoring.

The R26-R is based on a standard Megane Renault Sport 230 F1 Team R26 (what a mouthful), but rather than add performance by increasing engine power, Renault have elected to instead throw out all [...]

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The good folk at Renault have been busy putting the finishing touches to their 2009 Megane, only to have French car rag Auto Plus reveal all, well ahead of any official debut.

Renault have clearly toned down the styling for the 2009 car in an effort to help it appeal to more punters. Far more [...]

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Renault unveiled their new Megane Coupe Concept at this years Geneva Motor Show. The stunning looking concept features unique doors that open in two parts.

Renault are keen to come up with something special for their Megane Coupe production car, unfortunately the concept is a little too wild for much of it to make it [...]

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For those in the know, the ‘real’ hot-hatch heroes sport the Renault diamond. Raw, edgy and fast, Renault Sport have breathed some serious fire into the Clio and Megane hatches. This time around, they have turned their tuning attention to the diminutive Twingo hatch and while the name may not be raunchy, in Renault Sport [...]

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