Diesel buyers should attending out for the aboriginal 1.9-litre dCi common-rail engines, which accustomed in 2000. A acceptable five-door 2001 archetype in special-edition Fidji trim will set you aback £4,000 – that’s adjoin about £3,600 for a commensurable 1.6-litre petrol.
Post-2000 cars account from best application intervals, as all engines switched to 18,000 miles. Just ensure the 72,000-mile belt change has either been agitated out, or that the amount reflects the actuality it hasn’t. One Renault banker quoted us £1,100 for this seven-hour job.


You’ll accept to be clued-up to atom the revisions to the latest Mégane, but new headlamps and a tweaked grille differentiate it from the beforehand model. The ambit includes the Renaultsport 2.0-litre turbo and a 165bhp GT, with a milder adaptation of the aforementioned engine.
There’s aswell a new 148bhp 2.0-litre agent and, from this year, a added able 173bhp dCi. Further down the range, the acknowledged 1.5 dCi engines were additional to 85bhp and 105bhp, and the 1.6 and 2.0-litre petrols appear with capricious valve timing for a bigger advance of ability – although this about-face was fabricated afore the revamped ambit was introduced.


