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Renault knows what it is doing when it comes to hot hatches, and so rightly the new Megane R26 will be one of the stars of Geneva for any petrolhead. And what is a launch without a grainy teaser these days?
So here we have it, the first pic of the hot Megane, which appears to borrow styling cues from the Megane Trophy. The current R26 engine will stay but power is expected to go up by 10% to around 250bhp.
This won’t be a match for the whopping 300bhp in the Focus RS, but as Renault has proved with the previous R26 power isn’t always everything if you have a sorted chassis to bolt the body on to.
Expect a slippy diff to make sure all the power goes onto the tarmac and a six speed manual ‘box. The rest will be revealed in Geneva on March 3…