RE: New Renault Sport Megane spied on the Nurburgring

[Simon Owen]

DoubleD said:

Apparently you have a girls shopping car and the manufacturer is laughing at you.

Oh dear.

The bugger with Renaultsport at the moment is that if you want a manual you have to go for the big hot hatch rather than the small one !!

Pity as the Clio would do it for me in terms of size but I didn't want an Auto hence didn't really give it any consideration.

[oilspill]

DoubleD said:

Apparently you have a girls shopping car and the manufacturer is laughing at you.

Well yeah, given the hot hatch only came about due to a laugh and most of us rarely use the other 3 seats and trunk, they're certainly useless in the driving experience, the cost could go towards better suspension for our increasingly stty roads. Then again the 'laughing' manufacturers would probably charge more to spec it without seats and stick another letter on the back or a bit of carbon somewhere.
A cheaper to produce 'hot' car could have evolved with perhaps the stering wheel in the center less seats and a less generous luggage hatch, a lighter weight better feeling vehicle but that would have involved risk and double the dev costs of just tacking hot parts to the chic little shopper and got forbid the somehow offensive 5-door version.

Edited by oilspill on Friday 23 June 02:33

[oilspill]

nickfrog said:

Yes and as soon as said blokes jump in a 3-door, they suddenly look very different and women throw themselves at their feet.

If you squint a bit the 3 doors blend and almost look like a Formula Ford car and make you feel more racey. Turn a blind eye to the extra seats and huge hatch for the shopping though. It's too costly to redesign those now we've fallen for it.

[DoubleD]

oilspill said:

DoubleD said:

Apparently you have a girls shopping car and the manufacturer is laughing at you.

Well yeah, given the hot hatch only came about due to a laugh and most of us rarely use the other 3 seats and trunk, they're certainly useless in the driving experience, the cost could go towards better suspension for our increasingly stty roads. Then again the 'laughing' manufacturers would probably charge more to spec it without seats and stick another letter on the back or a bit of carbon somewhere.
A cheaper to produce 'hot' car could have evolved with perhaps the stering wheel in the center less seats and a less generous luggage hatch, a lighter weight better feeling vehicle but that would have involved risk and double the dev costs of just tacking hot parts to the chic little shopper and got forbid the somehow offensive 5-door version.

Edited by oilspill on Friday 23 June 02:33

Im not going to argue with you as you appear to be drunk.

[nickfrog]

DoubleD said:

Im not going to argue with you as you appear to be drunk.

Or we simply have (yet another) new troll...

[MustardCutter]

Porsche911R said:

I just see balding over weight dads in 5 doors lol a Hot hatch has to be 3 for me sorry , stuck in my ways.

For me a Hot hatch is about freedom, young single men enjoying cars, not over weight dads who have a bit of cash and need a 5 door and a baby seat, it's a bad look lol.

we all know it's to cut costs but 5 door Hot hatch's look st.

Edited by Porsche911R on Thursday 22 June 17:03

Surely the free, young and single men enjoying cars should be in convertibles or coupes rather than practically shaped cars with impractical points of entry/exit. I imagine women would still lust over the diet coke man if he drove a five door hatch and the three door version wouldn't turn John Merrick into sex on legs...