VAVA BOOM
The Megane’s gone electric, and Renault’s knocked it out the park
WORDS PAUL HORRELL
PHOTOGRAPHY MARK RICCIONI
L ittle known fact. Renault designers did two versions of the new Megane – the regular hatch and a fancier sporty one, with widened arches and more aggressive bumpers. “The finance department didn’t think much of the sports version,” snorts design chief Laurens van den Acker. Then Renault got a new boss, Luca de Meo, and on his second day, 2 July 2020, he looked at prototypes of both and said: “Just make that one.” He was pointing to the sports variant. The ‘base’ car was shuffled off to oblivion.