Renault Megane Coupe Concept Car
Renault design of this century, has not exactly met with universal approval. The Vel Satis, but radical, was widely unloved. The Avantime lasted only a few years in production. And even own employees admit the Megane is a polarization: either you love or hate.
So the next version of the Megane is not enough to take on traditional rivals such as the Ford Focus, Opel Astra and Volkswagen Golf. It must repair battered image Renault too. It is crucial to Renault fortune in the mass market to more than one. The Megane Coupe Concept is a first glance at this car.
As for the current Megane, the new model will be available in several body forms a small monospace, estate, a five-door hatch and a three-door version designed to appeal to fans of sports car and compete with the new Volkswagen Scirocco . This gives us a few tips on what this car look. Indeed, according to Francis Leboine, the man responsible for its exterior design, this car is very indicative of the production model to be unveiled this September at the Salon de l’Automobile Paris. “A couple of things will change,” he said. “The proportions are slightly different, but graphics will be largely the same.” This means that the athlete will remain high shoulder, as close DLO.
The preliminary design will be finished much like the concept too. Unlike the last Laguna, which was derided for “eye to eye, the emergence of its projectors, lights ahead of this concept are in the same proportion. The cover also seems to have had more thought put into it that the Laguna de boring affair and the passage of the preliminary success with wings added disguises the amount necessary to pass stricter legislation pedestrian.
The rear, while having a family resembles the current Mégane, is cleaner and light play the convex curve of the rear bow less complicated. The taillights on withdrawal, however, though stunning, will not succeed in automobile production. Neither the doors. They are called “Dragonfly”, because the glass separates from the door of the section looks like an insect wings at the opening. Although too impractical (and expensive) production, electric opening these are not just beautiful, they take place in both front and rear seats as easy as a classic Gullwing door would.
Once there, the cockpit has a minimal feel to it. The red lacquered carbon fiber seat shells, dashboard and center console give it a look of a kitchen design: a certain quality seepage, but not particularly soul. The little buttons on the centre console are embedded in the dashboard because they are tactile. And there’s one line before the driver. This reflects a steady speed analog digital with a unit of the Interior. The rev counter is a vertical line attached to his left, a line for the radio is his right.
From the Megane Coupe concept is simple. You unlock a mobile phone with Samsung, this slot in the dashboard, press the center console-mounted button Start / Stop and the two-litre turbo fire. The engine sounds gruff, because it is because this car is essentially a concept without sound deadening. However, you sit low, feeling good in the cocoon nubuck covered seats as you would in a sports car and the general feeling is that you’re in a real driver of the car. The six manual gearbox feels tight and snappy and controls are very direct. It is impossible to say if the engine pumping was declared the 200bhp in our driving test but in the sweeps of the CERAM test track in northern France to his opinion, and willing to respond, turning the corner strongly and with minimal body roll.
Only the journey crashy proved a let-down inside the vehicle. But this will be worked. And with a silhouette universally regarded as research on the spot for a three-door derivative of a new Megane, the Coupe Concept seems to prove that Renault designers have indeed found their Mojo.
