RE: Megane Trophy-R = £72k

[WCZ]

TIGA84 said:

fking hell, this used to be a place for petrolheads, now its a miserable sea of millenial fking complainers that are pleased by nothing.


Fair fking play to Renault to building it. After all, when they bring out the next Megane RS all you'll hear from the whinging pricks on here is "I bet a Golf GTi is quicker round the Ring", "They should put carbon wheels on it", "Why can't you have Carbon seats in it" etc etc.

Can you imagine the response if they brought out the V6 or the Turbo 2 again? Its just depressing..........

the other two megane trophy r's were affordable, people are disappointed that this one is so expensive

the v6 mk1 inflation adjusted is £38,000

a golf gtd with dsg is £30k these days, the v6 wasn't that expensive tbh

[nickfrog]

Leins said:

The V6 would lack torque and the Turbo 2 throttle adjustability! And both would be more expensive than some secondhand cars

You're not even exagerrating.

[nickfrog]

WCZ said:

the other two megane trophy r's were affordable, people are disappointed that this one is so expensive

You mean people that weren't even in the market anyway, what does it matter.

[cidered77]

Dave Hedgehog said:

sideshowfred said:

They didn't struggle to shift the fir Trophy-R. They only brought 30 of those into the country anyway. The R26.R was unfortunate in it's timing and yes they struggled to shift them but look at values now.

yep the timings defiantly better with the pound collapsing as we crash out of the EU and GDP about to crash 30%

there will be lots of people wanting to buy one

R26.R was also the very first example of the genre really - the first hyper-hatch. Public didnt know what to make of it, but yeah 0 was also released at the absolute peak of the credit crunch also to my memory.

I have an R26.R as #2 of my top 5 bucketlist. No word of a lie. Adore it. I bought a standard R26 just when the R26.R was released, and i'm still fuming the missus said we needed rear seats so i couldn't get the cool version. It was only a few k more! 5 times i used those rear seats in 5 years... still livid!

[Jon_S_Rally]

the_hood said:

Makes the Type R time look even more amazing if you need a £70k plus Megane to beat it!

Except that no one believes that the Type-R that held the record was anything like a production car...

[Robmarriott]

WCZ said:

the other two megane trophy r's were affordable, people are disappointed that this one is so expensive

the v6 mk1 inflation adjusted is £38,000

a golf gtd with dsg is £30k these days, the v6 wasn't that expensive tbh

The Clio V6 at ‘£38,000’ should be compared to the most expensive Clio at the time, the 172 which adjusted for inflation is just shy of £26,000, the V6 was 46% more then the 172.

Also, as an aside, the 182 Trophy was cheaper than the Phase 1 172!

Edited by Robmarriott on Wednesday 31st July 16:50

[ZX10R NIN]

Not a bad price considering the work carried out (you couldn't build it to the same standard for less) but I like most on here would baulk at the (especially as for around 8k more I could import a used GT350R)price, but I'm glad they made it.

[R400TVR]

What the hell is an accessory intake pipe???

[FourRingedDonuts]

TIGA84 said:

fking hell, this used to be a place for petrolheads, now its a miserable sea of millenial fking complainers that are pleased by nothing.

A Factory Renault Hatchback with Carbon Wheel, Carbon Seats and virtually everything in the highest grade spec they can produce, including the millions of Eur in R&D, and all people focus on is the price. Who fking cares?

You aren't going to buy one, but I guarantee they'll be gone in minutes.

Fair fking play to Renault to building it. After all, when they bring out the next Megane RS all you'll hear from the whinging pricks on here is "I bet a Golf GTi is quicker round the Ring", "They should put carbon wheels on it", "Why can't you have Carbon seats in it" etc etc.

Can you imagine the response if they brought out the V6 or the Turbo 2 again? Its just depressing..........

Oh so true.
Great post

[anonymous-user]

nickfrog said:

Leins said:

The V6 would lack torque and the Turbo 2 throttle adjustability! And both would be more expensive than some secondhand cars

You're not even exagerrating.

:thumbup;

[WCZ]

Robmarriott said:

The Clio V6 at ‘£38,000’ should be compared to the most expensive Clio at the time, the 172 which adjusted for inflation is just shy of £26,000, the V6 was 46% more then the 172.

Also, as an aside, the 182 Trophy was cheaper than the Phase 1 172!

Edited by Robmarriott on Wednesday 31st July 16:50

the 172 was really a great buy at the time! no wonder they sold so many
still, my point is that the clio v6 wasn't actually an insane amount of money in comparison to £72,000

[WCZ]

FourRingedDonuts said:

Oh so true.
Great post

why are people acting surprised that people are mentioning the high price when it's quite possibly the most expensive fwd car ever made ? it's only natural for people to discuss this

[xjay1337]

ZX10R NIN said:

Not a bad price considering the work carried out (you couldn't build it to the same standard for less) but I like most on here would baulk at the (especially as for around 8k more I could import a used GT350R)price, but I'm glad they made it.

I really think you could

Certainly if you were happy to lose bits of interior panels

It's £72k and 1306kg .

£32k for a RS300 Trophy (or at least it was) which weighed 1419kg.

You can add a few aftermarket bits -

- AST 2 Way adjustable (actual race specification with fully customisable valving and spring rates) - £3500
- Carbon buckets (loads available let's say £3000 for the pair).
- Light weight alloys and tyres - £5000 all in)
- Bit of interior stripping

And be 90% of the way there - I mean it's not a ridiculous price if you actually break it down, and the fact it's "as sold" with a warranty, but it is far beyond the reach of your average track day enthusiast... !

Like you say there are loads of other cars that would be better for the money.

[VR6 Eug]

You can buy a good car for that money

[nickfrog]

WCZ said:

why are people acting surprised that people are mentioning the high price when it's quite possibly the most expensive fwd car ever made ? it's only natural for people to discuss this

They're not acting anything. They're laughing at people who can't comprehend how expensive a road legal track car costs when this should normally be a contradiction in terms. And at those who can't understand development costs amortisation on such a small volume. Road cars and track cars are very different and resolving that particular equation for £50k is astoundingly cheap irrespective of the driven wheels.

[stongle]

Anyone blamed Brexit yet? Its the project fear of hot hatches. The next m4 will be eleventy billion quid.

[Glasgowrob]

actually breaking it down it isnt overpriced considering the components used and the fact its put together correctly by people that actually know what their doing.


they could have easily built a motor with a bit more grunt gave it say another 50-60bhp over stock and some sticky tyres but thats not renaultsports way of working. its a properly built track weapon designed to do one thing and one thing only,

[Phooey]

£72K for 296hp.

[Helicopter123]

TIGA84 said:

fking hell, this used to be a place for petrolheads, now its a miserable sea of millenial fking complainers that are pleased by nothing.

A Factory Renault Hatchback with Carbon Wheel, Carbon Seats and virtually everything in the highest grade spec they can produce, including the millions of Eur in R&D, and all people focus on is the price. Who fking cares?

You aren't going to buy one, but I guarantee they'll be gone in minutes.

Fair fking play to Renault to building it. After all, when they bring out the next Megane RS all you'll hear from the whinging pricks on here is "I bet a Golf GTi is quicker round the Ring", "They should put carbon wheels on it", "Why can't you have Carbon seats in it" etc etc.

Can you imagine the response if they brought out the V6 or the Turbo 2 again? Its just depressing..........

fking Great Post

[Panjy]

£72k for a hot hatch
I thought the world had gone mad when the A45 & RS3 pricing came out, this makes them look like a bargain.