TopGear Top Fact! The phrase “the empire on which the sun never set” was first used to describe not the British Empire, but the Habsburg Empire of the 16th century: an empire on which, you won’t fail to notice, the sun has indeed long since set. As it has on the British Empire, and every other apparently allpowerful, everlasting imperium in history.
And so to 2012’s Clio RenaultSport, the car historians will surely regard as the sundown moment on one of the greatest fast car bloodlines of them all: the Hot Clio Dynasty. Viewed in isolation, the MkIV Clio RS was... fine. Decently rapid, looked lairy enough, navigated corners without plummeting into a storm drain.