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Your point makes no sense. If you lease a car depreciation is irrelevant, it will never be your problem.

The car speaks for itself?
Think you've been watching to much knightrider!

Not entirely sure you know what leasing a car means...

FRENCH!!

Mileage allowance?

Bloody renaults

The car speaks for itself?
Think you've been watching to much knightrider!

Not German with chrome and masses of led lights...cold...for most!

However, great drivers car - makes your bum hurt a bit on poor roads :-)

Sacrebleu!

Can't comment on long term ownership. I've had a go in an older version of this and loved the way it felt - direct steering, plenty of feel and lots of grip. Exceptional for a hatch. But agree, I'd avoid Renault if parting with my own cash!

​same goes for vauxhall. Ugly dull poorly made cars with terrible quality and awful chassis and handling. But they sell loads, probably due to deals... But do buyers test them beforehand

Very true

​absolute nonsense. Had a megane in Spain last year as a hire car was a really nice drive. Also had a focus hire car in Ireland and a Leon courtesy car after an accident and although they are all very different inside ride quality is very similar. My favourite of the 3 was the Leon but that was only due to it being fully specced out.

Not really - The Wheel, Seat and Pedal are all out of alignment with each other. Couldn't drive for more than an hour to an hour and a half without having to stop and get out. The i40 that they replaced it with I can do a 4 hour trip to Glasgow none stop in it. Also my previous Octavia I could easily do a 4 hour+ journey without having to stop and no doubt it will be the same for my Golf R when I go away in that as that is one of the most comfortable seats I have sat in (bar an Old Vauxhall Omega Elite which was unbelievably comfortable!)

Not sure I'd lease a French car they depreciate like crazy, is a lease really worth it on a Renault? I guess it makes more sense than buying one, you'd lose a shedload of cash if you did.

How do people see out of these things?? Seriously, I hired one in France and the 'A' pillar is so thick and steeply inclined that it was really hard to place on twisty roads. Ok, I'm tall, unlike most French drivers, I guess, but it was a menace. The blind spot on acute junctions was easily big enough to hide a motorbike. Do the designers ever leave their CAD screens and actually drive them on real roads? Took the hire car back after a week and exchanged it for a Polo. *So* much better ...

P1ssing your money away with this one

EVO rate this as their best hot hatch

Have either of you ever owned a Vauxhall VXR8? I have and you cannot call that a dull, poorly made car with terrible quality and awful chassis and handling .MPG was somewhat poor but it is to be expected.

But that's a Holden built in Australia

Lump of rubbish.

Splitting hairs, its a Vauxhall in the UK.

For the people who like the look of this car probably another £100/month for insurance.

Great deal. Great motor.

I'm just waiting for that one guy who frequently trolls these deals with 'only idiots lease cars. I bought my first car with cash because I got paid £45k a year as soon as I left uni' etc etc

Hardly. It's got a vauxhall badge. That's it.

It's neither vauxhall or built by them. I have driven a 1970s holden v8 though :wink:

They had one on long term test 12 months plus and rated it their best hot hatch.

Also this is a lease deal... you don't own the vehicle.

Most of the Vauxhall range aren't really Vauxhall if you want to be techincal it's a UK brand for Opel or is it General Motors?

Anyway, isn't this actually a Nissan?

Not that I care, I still own a bullet proof German built Astra and an Audi, or is it a Skoda, VW, SEAT, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley or Bugatti?

I give up... It's a blue car.

Cold. I can buy a used XR3I for less,better performance, turns more heads, and mine to keep

I hope Nissan don't find out about Honda. Could ruin the alliance.

We get it. Lots of you don't like Renaults, and hot Meganes in particular. This car is not for me, but I would consider it if I had no sprogs and would respect drivers more than those lacking a bit of soul in their very good hot Golfs and S3s. Hot...

Does it come with a black and white stripy t-shirt and a string of onions as standard?

Can you share where you got your info from?
Never heard of Honda sharing anything with Renault

You?

Probably the same place that he got the info that an 18 year old could insure a 275hp car for £100 a month. :smirk:

I didn't think anyone much over 18 would be liking the look of this car, not till their mid-life crisis anyway :smiley:

I originally thought you were 24, however after that comment I'm convinced you're 92.

Shame there's not a Rover 75 deal on here for you.

20 years ago you could pick out a car

this body appears to be the same for Renault vauxhaull and Nissan

wonder if they worked out how to make them water tight in this version.

my mrs' big ar*e 55 plate megane leaked really badly. rain water in door pockets and in footwell. 3 of the 4 electric windows failed due to water ingress. alarm would go off randomly.

(and yes, she does have a big ar*e too!)

yes my mistake, I meant to say Nissan not Honda but the point still stands.

As for the 18 year old comment, its clear you are not familiar with sarcasm. My point being that this car won't be anywhere near £100 a month to insure for most of those that would buy it.

Renautl? Is that a typo or a cheap knockoff made in China?

Not so sure. I'm 33 and just insured a brand new golf r for £200 a year. I know plenty of 20 somethings with high powered cars paying less than £500 a year for insurance (focus St, civic type r, 135, etc etc)

​Took the words right out of my mouth :smiley:

​It was designed by holden in Australia.

Speaking of car insurance, my first car was a 20-year-old Ford Fiesta with no power steering, drum brakes from the Stone Age and a manual pump for the window washer. I paid £200 for that car in about 2003. It cost me over £100 per MONTH to insure, and the stereo system was worth five times that of the whole car.

What a beast she was, too. All 25 horse powers of her!!!

good deal for those who want the most fun car on the road, really does make you smile when you drive it over the twisties. At least its better looking and less bland than the golf r or s3 and will return over 30mpg unlike the other two just mentioned. I've had nothing break on my rs250 in the past 15 months so can vouch for Renault being fairly reliable.

someone please please please explain how leasing works in dummy language.
What are the disadvantages? Isn't this same as car hire?

VX220?

Friend has the turbo one. And knows how to drive it. (Former racing driver)

Felt pretty rapid to me!

​So? Who wants to buy a car that'll spend most of its life in a garage?

What a lot on uninformed tosh on here.

I just sold my Megane RS250, after 4 years of ownership, in that time it went wrong NEVER. It was my second Megane RS as well, and that one went wrong NEVER.

In 4 years it depreciated from £17k to £13.5k, with me adding 28k miles on it.

I'm also 6ft 3 and never had a problem with the A pillar

I also used to regularly drive it the 250 odd mile trip to Lincolnshire to see my parents and my bum never hurt, and the kids were happy in the back, and the dog could lay in the boot.

Also neither of mine leaked water.

If I hadn't just leased a car, I would snap this up.

People who know nothing about cars or leases need to go back to the burrows and stop commenting on things they know nothing about :smiley:

Wow that is big bucks for a type-r. I am in my late 30's and pay £360 a year for a modifed Impreza WRX and thats with all mods declaired and covered like for like with business use and the wife on the policy. I have had the car for 10 years and even when i was 29 it only cost £750 a year.

Oh I definitely do, but you have to have fun sometimes, what fun is a lease thread without an inane comment or two? :smiley:

​I get 30.4 mpg out my rs250 with bluefin. evo doubted the economy on there test golf R which was reading 41mpg on the trip. manual fill and calculation over a tank showed 25mpg in reality. seems VW are fudging figures again!

Doubt that very much on the evo part. I filled up my first tank and Fuelly said 28mpg (VW gave me a full tank but I guess it wasn't quite full and left running for hours on end whilst they prepped it) and my Trip counter said 27.6mpg so I would say that is pretty much spot on. Trouble with the R not living up to its mpg expectation is wanton need to hoon it everywhere :laughing: I am sure I will calm down over the next few tanks and a real test for it will be when I go to Goodwood FOS to see what a motorway cruise can achieve although it will have a stage 1 by then!

Seems it's worse than I thought, Unless you drive a Golf R like a grandad, you ain't going to get 40mpg!
Golf R Manual 6 Speed 4wd
Auto Express econ (mpg/mpl)/range 26.8/5.9/324 miles
Govt urban/extra-urban/combined 30.1/47.9/39.8mpg
As expected, real world figure 10-15% worse than manufacturers!

I did a 20 drive down an a road last weekend, free flowing doing 60 all the way and got 41mpg. This is a car with 250 miles on the clock. Would say it's pretty easy to obtain the book figures once run in and I've got used to the car.

Book figures I could never reach in the megane, and I mean driving like a granddad I was still 25% off their figures and I know how to hyper mile. Similar story with the hyundai I have. Think that quotes 72 or 67 mpg and have never bettered 55mpg.

Fuelly and the like are good indicators to real world figures anyway no magazine tests. They're always much lower as the usually have multiple drivers, loaded with equipment, thrashed from new and it's scientifically proven that if the driver ain't paying for the fuel then the car gets a lower mpg :wink:

Quote from vwroc.com forum owner of a Golf R - Southall87

"That been said I recon 40mpg is achievable down hill with a tailwind while driving like miss Daisy " :smile:

Yes I reckon it is better. It's a better engine.

Proven by the fact my old heavy 2.0 170 brake dsg octavia vrs used to get higher mpg than my 1.5 megane with all this eco guff tech. Used to get 52 mpg all day long without trying. 47 mpg in my eco megane.

You do the math. See fuelly. Real world, not forum world figures. I'll stick to my German engineering instead of the French fag packet engineering thanks.

French are renowned for awful cars. Fact.

As I said, free flowing road doing 60, not miss daisy. Few over takes too.

I currently have golf r lease, runs out in a couple of months. Will test drive this rs weekend and give feedback

I Currently have a golf r on lease that runs out in a couple of month so I've booked in for a test drive on this rs. Be interesting to see how it compares. I'll come back with feedback.

The Renault Megane Renaultsport has exceptional reviews.

60mph at constant speed making 40mpg.

And you think you'll see 35mpg mixed driving when it's run in?

Not on your nelly - 30mpg mixed and 35 on a run is what you'll get. Under 30 if you're not leaving town.

Evo mag said the trip computer was lying. Trip computer tells you what you want to think it's doing MPG wise, but in reality it's 10% worse. So 30mpg on round trip ain't that great. I would be interested to see what the new Focus RS does mpg wise, that would be the car to go for lease wise at the moment. I own my car, so got to keep it for a while longer. I had a Megane RS before this one which got written off, so great I had to have another one. You got to have the leather Recaro's though, best seats ever in a road car!

as I said in a previous comment, I compared it on my first fill up and it was pretty much spot on with the trip computer.

Don't believe everything you read. No manufacturers cars in magazine long term drivers ever get near their mpg figures, as I said before, they have different drivers, probably normal fuel and are usually full of equipment as they are usually kit cars for the main event photoshoots they do. Also most of them spend their time in London sitting in traffic.

As i also said, look at fuelly if you want proper figures.

Seems like somebody is lying.
This post seems to show a Golf R only doing 25mpg out of several tank fills.

http://www.vwroc.com/forums/topic/13113-how-much-to-fill-a-tank-and-how-far/page-2

I'm bored with this game now.

Go check out this rant by Richard Hammond on the Megane 275 Trophy.
He even makes this comment at the end :

Volkswagen Golf R: Delivers plenty of performance thanks to 300bhp but can’t match the Renault for thrills. £29,990

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/car-reviews/renaultsport-megane-review-richard-hammond-4087758

Yeah must be the calibrated Tesco Momentum pump at my local garage lying to me :confused:

Beyond boring.. Have had a Megane, I know what they are like and how appalling they are. Guessing you have had both to comment...oh no, forgot, just a keyboard warrior quote magazine and tabloid articles instead of going out and driving one....Or just rely on actual real life figures:

http://www.fuelly.com/car/volkswagen/golf/2015/daveflave/391741

I can only find one british Megane RS on Fuelly and unfortunately it is from 2011:
http://www.fuelly.com/car/renault/megane/2011/redbox/168880

Seriously, anyone saying a Megane RS250/260/275 is apalling has never owned one or even driven one.
So that makes you a lying son of a bitch.
No other car has won best hot hatch 5 years in a row. It looks great, drives great and is reliable.
Enjoy your boring Golf R, could have been so good. Shame about the wheels, headlamps, tailights, styling, or lack of should I say. I use to be Mr Average, but then I realised I wanted the best handling hot hatch. I loved the look of the Astra VXR GTC, but knew it handled poorly and did not put the power down. Once I had driven a Megane, that's it I was sold. Just like the time I went to look at a Boxster. Don't do bland anymore, which is why my next car will probably be a Cayman S.

Ah right, so when you run out of 'facts' to back up an argument you turn to insults. That's about right.

I've had a megane, not the rs but a megane all the same. Couldn't spend more than an hour a time in it without being in agony. So unless they've moved the physical position of the seat, the pedals and the wheel it would be a similar story in the rs.

Standard wheels on the golf are awful, that's why I ordered it with the 19s and the dynamic chassis control. Everyone I know (and that's a real critical bunch) loves the car, the subtle styling and especially the wheels, the double U headlights and the super smoked tail lights.

I can also reach the sat nav too without having to undo my seat belt :laughing:

If the golf is so boring and bland.. then why does it win every group test going for the last two years, with only the new focus rs giving it any hint of competition?

I mean, who wouldn't want 275 horses just through the front wheels!

Enjoy your plastic toy :smirk:

If i didnt already have a liquid yellow r26 id be all over this.
The renault sports are built at a different factory in dieppe and tend to have better build quality.
Brill car for shopping trips & trackdays..