Renault Megane E-Tech

More power but slightly slower acceleration, slightly less torque and likely a lot more wheelspin as it's FWD. Minor detail I know.

Slightly better in the looks department though.

Battery Life 130KM/H test on the Autobahn.

Haven't watched it all yet myself.

The poster I replied to suggested we'd only get whatever specs the UK were getting.

The point was that Renault give us models that aren't even sold in the UK, never mind different specs.

Pricing must surely be finalised/released, in the coming weeks.

I’d be expecting the same specs, as the UK’s 3 x 60kw models.

I was hoping for an idea of pricing in Kate July - now late September. As usual I bet there will be limited stock !

Confirmed that test drives will be available by the end of this month - i'm booking one in just to get a feel for whats on offer.

Fairly surprised they’re bothering to offer the 40 kWh models here, surely nobody would go there.

Curious to see one in real life, bit hard to judge the size of them in pics.

Some details on specs here

Unfortunately, people need to recalibrate what cars cost, prices have shot up and won’t be going back down (unless the Chinese manage to flood us with cheap stuff). A properly equipped ICE Megane/Golf size car is now 40k.

Manufacturers have stopped making the base model cheap stuff and electric cars cost more again. 45k is the new normal, a lot of people are being completely priced out

I considered buying a new Golf GTI a few years ago, it was 35k. My mate’s neighbour has just bought one for around 60k. Madness.

Saw it in the flesh in Paris, very tasty.

I genuinely have a soft spot for Renault certainly some of their sportier offerings, I do hope the etech is a good car, reviews etc are positive it’s just that historically a Renault has suffered huge depreciation and 3 year trade in values have been utterly insulting, I’d happily drive a renault 5 gt turbo gordini

Well at least you'll get a car made by a manufacturer that checks their output and with a decent build quality and properly put together.

To be fair they upped their game massively after Laguna 2 and Megane 2nd gen.

So 3rd Gen Megane and mk 3 Laguna were a lot better.

I actually saw a 2002 Laguna 2 this week and when I tweeted about it someone was straight in saying about the indicators coming on when you press the brakes lol.

Theres no sugar coating how much of a disaster Laguna 2 was for Renault and many of the customers that bought one...

BUT....

Just worth noting that the Laguna 2 was the first car to ever get a 5 star rating with euro ncap. And was therefore a lead player in making cars in general safer.

Far more relevant to a 2022 decision to buy a 48 k Renault or not is the fact that Renault have been doing EVs with Zoe since 2013.

Just on cars costing 40k+ now, its the way things are. I've bought a Cupra Born for 42k after grants etc, I wasn't really in the market for an electric car but a 2018/19 5 series or A6 or even 3 series which I looked at were 40k+

5 series and A6 are in the high 60s now for new ones without adding a huge amount of options, so the whole thing has shifted upwards. I've kind of gone off the whole premium brand idea for the moment anyway, I've spent my life in them but decided electric in a more mainstream brand was a better home for my money than another diesel or phev premium car.

Renault will sell their allocations of these at 40k+, as will cupra, hyundai, kia, vw and any other brand out there

Reposting some images here of spec etc. The Renault website doesn't have this information yet. Read feom bottom image up. The integration of android OS and Google is excellent.