RE: Renault Clio 182 Trophy: PH Hero

[Bonefish Blues]

PaulJC84 said:

Mad to think a clean Trophy sold for £40k a year or so ago too.

Oh my.

[HTP99]

Bonefish Blues said:

PaulJC84 said:

Mad to think a clean Trophy sold for £40k a year or so ago too.

Oh my.

I remember dealers selling these brand new for £13k.

[Bonefish Blues]

HTP99 said:

Bonefish Blues said:

PaulJC84 said:

Mad to think a clean Trophy sold for £40k a year or so ago too.

Oh my.

I remember dealers selling these brand new for £13k.

IIRC I paid 12.6...

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182s might be cheap to buy, but they certainly aren't cheap to run going off this eye-popping article adding up the costs of daily driving a Trophy for 12k miles. Equal parts courageous and crazy.

Link

[Zarco]

AlexGSi2000 said:

Was offered a 172 by a mate in work about 10 years ago for £1,500.
Missed that one, what a plonker.

I bought a 182 (with Cup packs) for £1600 or £1700 in 2016. One owner and around 100k miles IIRC. Bits of the front undertray fell off the first time I gave it some stick, and the injectors played up, but it was generally OK. Never felt as confidence inspiring as my old 172 Cup in the wet though. Expect that was down to aging suspension and tyres.

[Networkgeek]

DSC OFF said:

182s might be cheap to buy, but they certainly aren't cheap to run going off this eye-popping article adding up the costs of daily driving a Trophy for 12k miles. Equal parts courageous and crazy.

Link

I must admit, I thought buying a Clio RS would be a cheap, but fun car to nip about in.

I was wrong.

But, when I think about it, these cars are hot hatches. Even a Civic EP3 Type R would be expensive to run, especially when things go wrong. The beauty of the Clio is that most of the parts come from its cheaper brother (aka a standard Clio).

On a side note, I haven't heard of Rush Mag before, it's really quite good

[greenarrow]

Networkgeek said:

DSC OFF said:

182s might be cheap to buy, but they certainly aren't cheap to run going off this eye-popping article adding up the costs of daily driving a Trophy for 12k miles. Equal parts courageous and crazy.

Link

I must admit, I thought buying a Clio RS would be a cheap, but fun car to nip about in.

I was wrong.

But, when I think about it, these cars are hot hatches. Even a Civic EP3 Type R would be expensive to run, especially when things go wrong. The beauty of the Clio is that most of the parts come from its cheaper brother (aka a standard Clio).

On a side note, I haven't heard of Rush Mag before, it's really quite good

Interesting. I know the Trophy has trick dampers, but otherwise its a n/a petrol engined car with little in the way of gizmos. Why was it so expensive?

My wife and I own a Fiesta ST150 (well its her car, but I pay for the bills!), which is the Clio's rival from back in the day. Admittedly she does only about 1500 miles a year but the thing costs buttons to run. Just has an annual service and it has passed the last 3 MOTs without an advisory..... I thought the Clio might be similar....

[Networkgeek]

greenarrow said:

Interesting. I know the Trophy has trick dampers, but otherwise its a n/a petrol engined car with little in the way of gizmos. Why was it so expensive?

My wife and I own a Fiesta ST150 (well its her car, but I pay for the bills!), which is the Clio's rival from back in the day. Admittedly she does only about 1500 miles a year but the thing costs buttons to run. Just has an annual service and it has passed the last 3 MOTs without an advisory..... I thought the Clio might be similar....

In my experience, these little cars tend to be driven hard and then people complain when things go wrong. I'm not saying this applies to every component failure, as things can just break, but in my experience, Clio's are reliable cars.

I would love to put into words how much I love driving the Clio, but I'm not a word-smith. So my way of summarising how the Clio makes me feel is, I also own a BMW M2 and I would rather sell the M2. The M2 is a fantastic car, I feel fortunate to own it, but the Clio makes me smile so much.

[LordHaveMurci]

greenarrow said:

Interesting. I know the Trophy has trick dampers, but otherwise its a n/a petrol engined car with little in the way of gizmos. Why was it so expensive?

My wife and I own a Fiesta ST150 (well its her car, but I pay for the bills!), which is the Clio's rival from back in the day. Admittedly she does only about 1500 miles a year but the thing costs buttons to run. Just has an annual service and it has passed the last 3 MOTs without an advisory..... I thought the Clio might be similar....

I’ve had my 172 Cup for 14yrs, it wasn’t the best example when I bought it.

It’s been very reliable & I’d sell my 996 before I sold the Clio!

Admittedly I don’t do mega miles & on a run it’s not fun but as a runabout & hooning car they are brilliant.

[greenarrow]

Networkgeek said:

greenarrow said:

Interesting. I know the Trophy has trick dampers, but otherwise its a n/a petrol engined car with little in the way of gizmos. Why was it so expensive?

My wife and I own a Fiesta ST150 (well its her car, but I pay for the bills!), which is the Clio's rival from back in the day. Admittedly she does only about 1500 miles a year but the thing costs buttons to run. Just has an annual service and it has passed the last 3 MOTs without an advisory..... I thought the Clio might be similar....

In my experience, these little cars tend to be driven hard and then people complain when things go wrong. I'm not saying this applies to every component failure, as things can just break, but in my experience, Clio's are reliable cars.

I would love to put into words how much I love driving the Clio, but I'm not a word-smith. So my way of summarising how the Clio makes me feel is, I also own a BMW M2 and I would rather sell the M2. The M2 is a fantastic car, I feel fortunate to own it, but the Clio makes me smile so much.

I can totally get where you're coming from. I've owned lots of different cars but the small nippy ones have always rewarded the most. My little Alfasud and Fiat Sportings were just so much fun. The current Fiesta ST150 we own is cut from same cloth but I have to admit when I drive it, it does not make me want to get up just for a drive like my old Mk2 MX-5, or the 205 GTI 1.9 we owned before that. I think the Clio 172/182 probably just has that bit of va va voom, which elevates it above the Fiesta which in standard guise just lacks a bit of sparkle for me.