RENAULT is going from strength to strength in this country with an increasingly more appealing range of affordable alternatives to the long-reigning Japanese, German and South Korean brands.

But in the hot-hatch world, the French have long been right at the apex, defining and then redefining what a fast and fiery small car should feel like.

So does the radically modernised Clio RS 200 EDC – with a turbo but no manual gearbox – follow on from its illustrious forbearers?

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