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Old 26 September 2012, 07:25 PM
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Default RENAULT CLIO 2.0 16V RENAULTSPORT 197 CUP

Chaps.

Anyone have any experience of the above, good or bad? Daily runner has given up the ghost so I need to get something else. Now that I work from home my mileage has come crashing down (was doing 35k miles a year!) so a diesel is no longer fundamental in my decision.

This looks ok for example:

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/c...cup-3dr/335391

Cheers, TX.
Old 26 September 2012, 07:46 PM
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I have one I bought as a fun car , and to do some track days , mine has the Recaro's and the bolsters wear through , mine have but is an easy fix , and the mapping is crap , it kangaroo's like an idiot when its cold , and doesn't run too cleanly when its hot , apparently a live remap will sort it out , I got a superchips generic map and it still does it.

Its a very good handling car , mine is a cup , and handles very well , brakes are very good , just needs the go to match , they are quite gutless and needs reving to get it to move
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i got my wife the 197 F1 edition a few months ago great little car had no issues so far
makes me smile as much as when driving my 400+bhp scooby
the feel from the steering is great proper go kart like handling
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I had one. For about 12 months in total and I couldn't wait to sell it.
I went through 2 gearboxes in this time, had lots of warranty work done on the exhaust/undertrays and as mentioned above, the base map is poor.

As a package it is OK - but I would look at a facelift variant if you can.
The chassis is superb at handling - as fun as my Mini but invest in some brakes and some coilovers to finish it off.
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Ooh that looks nice Dave

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better off with a ep3 type r...........especially ones that have been supercharged

can be had for less than that price too
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