Megane rs trophy r1/29/2024 ![]() Be in no doubt: the Golf GTI Clubsport S remains superb, as brilliant now as it was when launched out of the blue back in 2016. It would certainly make the job of finishing this test a lot easier just say both are great and move on. So can there be a meaningful conclusion here? With one car costing twice what the other does, one still on sale and examples of the other all snapped up two years ago, perhaps not. ![]() Traction via the limited-slip diff quite frankly makes a mockery of the Golf's VAQ set up despite being stiff, which you wouldn't normally associate with great traction, the dampers are claimed to behave identically in rebound as in compression, meaning precious little disturbance between contact patch and road. ![]() Grip is superior too, even in less than perfect conditions, again presumably as the camber puts more rubber - now Bridgestone S007s, upgraded from S001s - into the tarmac. Even without the steering rear axle, turn in might be more immediate (as well as more trustworthy) thank the increase in negative camber, the reduced un-sprung mass in the wheels and brakes, and the lower ride height for that. In the right situation, the Megane Trophy has shown itself to be a decently sorted hot hatch - this R is aeons ahead. Far greater outright ability may well be selling it short, too. Within just a few minutes you're pushing far harder than you would in a standard Trophy, the R a car of far greater outright ability thanks in part to how much more confident you are in the way its front and rear end will respond. It's saved a chunk of weight (32kg), but the real advantage is in the increased confidence the driver has through both the more natural rate of response in the wheel, and the messages coming back through it. Renault will hate us for saying this, but a significant part of the new Trophy-R's transformation to properly engaging performance car has come from ditching the four-wheel steer.
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