![]() “The supermini crossover class is the fastest-growing in UK and across Europe currently. Those things in mind, the Renault Captur looks a strange decision.Īpparently not. ![]() And its last SUV-type car, the Koleos, was so staggeringly average that nobody remembered it existed, nor was bothered when Renault quietly withdrew it from sale after only a couple of years. I wonder why? I mean, Renault practically invented the MPV market with the first Espace (some beg to differ, I know), and continues to be synonymous with the format. It caters to the ‘budget’ (read: young) end of the buyer demographic with regards price, build and running costs - it takes its styling blueprint from a naturally bigger type of car, then shrinks it down.īut it’s the last of those things that’s also the key differentiator, because when maximising the Clio this time around, Renault chose to miniaturise not an MPV, but an SUV. It’s based on the Clio but made taller to carry four-and-a-half people more comfortably. I bring this up because the car I now find myself running is, really, a Modus. His honesty was surprising enough to make this my only resounding memory of the whole experience, because he wasn’t pointing at a rival car, as you might expect. During a conversation about my budget, he pointed at a particular car and dismissively suggested that, despite it being well within reach financially, it wasn’t for me. Nothing unusual there, but what he did next was. While pacing the used forecourt, wearing my best ‘please do not disturb me, salesman’ face, I was disturbed by one. I don’t recall much about the ownership experience (which is high praise, I suppose, by virtue of it being a second-hand French hatchback), but I do remember a detail about the first visit to the dealership. The Renault Megane was twerking a decade before Miley Cyrus was. ![]() I also liked how the Megane was famous primarily for its billboard-happy behind. I bought it because we had a baby on the way and my Clio Extreme was neither big nor especially extreme. ![]() But is it really just a new Modus?īack when I was a skint student, as opposed to a skint grown-up, I bought a Renault Megane. Our newest contributor Mark takes delivery of our newest arrival, the Renault Captur. ![]()
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