Category: Hot Hatchbacks 
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Race car looks, Recaro seats, sharp handling, incredible value.
Needs air conditioning, engine needs to be worked hard, lack of steering feel.
The most focused, hardcore, best-driving hot hatch money can buy.
The fact that Renaultsport has binned the standard car's curtain airbags, as part of its intensive weight-saving programme, means that the Clio Cup, if it were to be retested in isolation, wouldn't receive the standard car's full five stars for adult occupant safety.
However, to its credit, the Cup does retain the standard switchable ESP.
Protecting against theft, the Cup has a Thatcham Category 1 approved alarm plus a Cat 2 engine immobiliser as standard.
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wrote on 28 08 2007