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Hyperfacts!
Car : Renault Clio GT Line
Engine: 1.2 liter 4 cylinder Turbo/Direct
Fuel-Injection
Max Output: 120ps at 4900rpm
Max torque: 190Nm at 2000rpm
Transmission: 6 speed EDC
Text & Photos: Faz
A sedated but still ever more lively
Renault hatch
With the festivities in full swing nowadays the overwhelming theme in
the suburbs would be the masses of moms and pops both old and young,
together with their children in tow (some of them ought to have ‘potential
hazard’ signs hung around their necks I mean really) getting all festive-vy
and unhinged, feeding on their family-fuelled holiday cheers and unleashing
their excitement at their ‘neighborhood households’. Indeed for any
outsiders who’re new to the Malaysian way of life, the seemingly perpetual
festive mood; with one ethnically exclusive holiday seasons after another
does give the impression of being in a permanent state of bliss.
The suspension - MacPherson style up front, torsion beam at the rear
– has had some proper Renaultsport attention, something the Clio is
only too happy to advertise with various badges. Its dampers are 40 per
cent stiffer than standard. An ‘RS Drive’ button icks between Normal
and Sport modes, altering the engine and gearbox responses, steering
weight and stability control settings.
Why I chose to start off on this for a prim and proper car review stemmed
from one quintessential consumer practice slash rights slash freedom
– the three major quality notches namely luxury or high end, premium
and/or expensive, and nally cheap and affordable. As different as these
three distinctive classes corresponds to, they’re essentially the same
product affronting similar traits. In other words despite the three distinct
aforementioned categorizations an apple is basically still an apple.
As such this Renault Clio GT Line is undoubtedly a prim and proper Clio albeit
minus the urgency and the rapidness of the benchmark Clio RS – the range
topper the GT Line imitates. While the full strength Clio RS 200 uses a 1.6-
litre turbocharged petrol engine with 197bhp, the GT Line makes do with a
dinky 1.2 motor still blown too, though, it makes a respectable 118bhp and
140lb ft, its torque gure available nice and low, from 1750rpm.
With considerably lower mass as a whole the Clio GT Line hustles from
0-62 in 9.9sec, with a little under 200km/h top end. The engine is mated
exclusively to the six-speed twin-clutch paddleshift gearbox used in the RS
200, known as EDC, though it gains different, more economy-minded ratios.
Fuel economy is rated at 54.3mpg, while CO2 emissions of 120g/km.