Renault Clio 1.8 16V Review

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Renault Clio 1.8 16V
3.8 stars
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spliff1star's Review of Renault Clio 1.8 16V

12th May 2005

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Length of ownership
    3 Months
  • Practicality
    3 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    1992
  • Performance
    3.5 stars
  • Reliability
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Looks like a normal clio, comfy seats, fast, good handling, buldge on the front bonet, plenty of body kits available.


Bad Points

Can suffer gearbox and clutch problems which is common. Rear arches rusting, cheap plastics and dash. All instrument dials ie: oil temp not working. Rear space is tiny and it could do with some rear head rests. Not that good on fuel. Fog lights seal always geting water inside and the fog lights themselves are expensive and hard to track down 2nd hand. £50 from dealers. Not quite Renault 5 GTT performance. Smaller arches on earlier models.


General Comments

I had a j reg Renault Clio 1.8 16V for around 3 months. It is/was a fast little car and could see off a few newer cars in the market. Complete diferent car to a nova gsi or corsa gsi. It has 137bhp the clio williams has 150bhp from its 2.0 16v but there is a big diference between both these cars. I recomend the clio williams as they are usualy better looked after, faster, rarer and hold there value more. Clio 16v's have come down a bit in price now and you can get the phase 2 16vs from £1500 which have nicer alloys, clear fogs and no crome bumper strips. A better interior than the phase 1 16v. The Renault 5 GTT is a lot faster but not as well built.

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