ROSE-TINTED SPECTACLE

摘要

If you thought Renault building a bespoke sports coupe was admirably maverick, how about it beefing up its Supermini and replacing the rear seats with a V6? Andrew Frankel revisits the outlandish Clio V6 255. Not many cars possess the capacity to really cheese me off, which is probably a good thing. But the first mid-engined Renault Clio V6, launched 20 years ago, managed exactly that. It was like finally scoring your dream date, sitting down to dinner in a posh restaurant and then watching them launch into a stout defence of Donald Trump while casually picking their nose. Because of the enormous disparity between how you imagined the encounter might progress and how it actually did, you end up far more disappointed with your evening than had you just stopped off at the local for a swift half with a tedious colleague.