Renaultsport Clio 220 Trophy is fast, furious, French - CNET
[MUSIC] It's rare for a car company to admit it's made a mistake. Unless that car company is Renault. This is the Renault Clio, Renault Sport 220 Trophy EDC and it's sort of a mea culpa. [MUSIC] When Renault launched the Mclaren 200, they went with the decision to give it a smaller capacity turbo charged engine, and an automatic gear box. Also it came with no more power than the old naturally aspirated car, and barley anymore torque. So, the bods in charge at Renault's force have tweaked the formula a little bit and come up with this: the Renault Cleo 220 Trophy. Powers up from 197 break horsepower to 217, torques up to 192 from 177, There's an added over boost function prop it up to 206 should you want it. That's thanks to a new turbo and software changes. [MUSIC] So, the Clio is now a faster car with more power, and it can be delivered with more aplomb, but what about the transmission. Well, one of the things that was leveraged against the older version of this car was the pedal travel was a bit too long, so that's been cut By a third and the gearbox has been mapped. The [UNKNOWN] 275 [UNKNOWN] I drove in 2014 was hilarious fun, and immensely accomplished. Reni Sport wanted to make sure that the Clio was still comfy but had better corner balance, better steering feel, less roll, more. Source: www.cnet.com
