let's face it Renault Sport fumbled the
last Clio RS so it's got a little bit of
making up to do and this car here the
new Magan RS is designed to do just that
but it's not going to have things all
its own way it arrives having to fight
with the Cupra the goal for the new
honda civic type-r no less Top Gear's
current reigning Car of the Year but
just a side note I think there's space
for plenty of hot hatch talent hot hatch
sales quadrupled in Europe since 2012
okay so the tech details under here we
have a 1.8 liter four-cylinder
turbocharged engine the same engine
effectively you get in an Alpine a110
just in a higher state of tune so 277
horsepower not 62 in 5.8 seconds which
is bang-on the Honda Civic Type R in
terms of the chassis well you can have a
sport chassis or you can have a cup
chassis that's 10 percent stiffer you
can have a 6-speed manual or a 6-speed
twin clutch auto now the Magan RS has
always been the more extreme the more
hardcore end of the hot hatch spectrum
so I suspect cup chassis and manual
gearbox is the way you want to go in
other mechanical news this 4-wheel
steering a first in the hot hatch
segment clearly the engineers decided it
was worth the weight penalty for the
extra agility in the slow corners and
the stability at high speeds and you get
a limited slip differential on the front
axle you'd have to say it's a pretty
good-looking car isn't it you'll see
it's 60 millimeters wider than the
stand-up again at the front slightly
less than that at the rear but you can
still see the arches trying to bust out
of the bodywork here the back we've got
a diffuser we've got a central exhaust
pipe at the front there's some fancy LED
lights that mimic the new Renault Sport
logo and on the inside it's pretty much
standing again apart from some superb
Alcantara sport seats basically it's
just pretty in a way that the Civic
isn't and this thing starts at around
thirty grand which undercuts the Honda
on paper then the type are should be
very worried indeed