#RENAULT MEGANE TROPHY DRIVER#
You can stick it in “comfort” and drive it like a family hatch or opt for one of the “racing” driver modes and fight to keep from ending up in the hedge. To drive it’s a curious blend of wild-eyed performance and perfect manners. The RS 300 has a lot to shout about: it has 300hp (hence the name – actually, it’s 296hp, but who’s counting?) a tuned chassis with limited-slip differential a four-wheel steer system a thumping Bose sound system with seven speakers front and rear lights that look like they’ve been pinched from a nightclub pin-sharp “bi-material” lightweight brakes aluminium pedals Recaro bucket seats trimmed in faux suede ceramic ball bearings in the turbocharger… The list goes on. It’s as if you’ve prodded some slumbering beast and it has shaken itself in readiness. When you get in, before you press the ignition, it wakes itself up with a four-second welcome routine – throbbing engine noise underlaid with a baseline heartbeat. It’s then been further boosted to become the range-topping RS 300 Trophy.Ĭommand centre: the smart cockpit of the new RS 300 Trophy. It’s been given the full-on, hardcore, race-centric treatment to become a RenaultSport Mégane.
It’s not just an everyday Mégane that’s been zhuzhed up. Sometimes the three-letter word “car” doesn’t do justice to the multi-layered, aero-engineered, all-encompassing sensory experience offered by a vehicle like this. You’ll find yourself so involved in piloting it along the unspooling grey ribbon of tarmac that you’ll have to remind yourself to blink. On the other hand, it’s so absorbing to drive that your attention is never likely to wonder. If ever there was a car that dangled “behave like a prat” in front of you, this is it. It’s particularly apposite to the car I was driving that week: the Renault Mégane RS 300 Trophy. And Granny will definitely take a dim view of dorkish behaviour, such as texting, speeding or generally being a prat at the wheel. The idea was inspired by young men saying that they drove better when carrying a “precious cargo” in their car – like their gran. They are the most at-risk group for being in an accident.
In fact, the M74 message is part of a new campaign launched by Road Safety Scotland aimed at 20- to 29-year-old motorists.
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