SCOOP CLIO REBORN

REVEALED Renault’s sixth-generation Clio hatchback will get a clean look and hi-tech kit, while sticking with petrol and hybrid power

Phil McNamara

NEXT year’s Renault Clio will launch the brand’s curvy, new “Latin” look, rebooting the supermini’s sporty, iconic status in a bid to keep it riding high in the small-car sales charts. Our exclusive images preview how the new model could look. Reviving two “legendary icons” – the electric Renault 5 small hatch and 4 SUV – has given the French brand the opportunity to modernise the designs of its “future icons”, Renault Group’s design director Laurens van den Acker told Auto Express. And the Clio – launched 35 years ago, and about to enter its sixth generation – is one of Renault’s three icons, along with the Scenic and Espace, which together popularised the multi-purpose vehicle in Europe. “Our intention is to produce design icons – though that will only…

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