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Go back a decade or so and you'd find showrooms full of hardtop convertibles. There was the
Pontiac G6,
Chrysler Sebring,
Volkswagen Eos,
Volvo C70,
Cadillac XLR,
Lexus SC430 and so many more. Though there still are some on the market, by and large the trend has abated. Heck, even
Mercedes-Benz, which (with apologies to
Mitsubishi) almost singlehandedly brought the trend to the forefront with the original
SLK, is preparing drop the folding hardtop from the next
SL after three generations with. Nobody seems to have told
Renault, though.
The French automaker has been making a Coupé-Cabriolet version of the
Mégane for over a decade now, and while rivals like the
Peugeot 308 and
Opel Astra have long since dropped the drop-tops from their lineups (replaced, in the latter case, by the soft-top
Cascada), Renault presses on. Redesigned to more closely resemble the rest of the range, the new Mégane Coupé-Cabriolet is capped by a folding panoramic glass roof that Renault claims is the largest in its (ever-shrinking) class.
With a 3,500-pound curb weight, that also makes the Mégane CC a good 700 lbs heavier than, say, a similar-sized (but fixed-roofed)
Honda Civic Coupe, or about as much as a small crossover like the
Toyota RAV4. To pull all that weight, European buyers can select from a range of gasoline or diesel engines with as little as 97 horsepower or as much as 130, mated to a manual, automatic or continuously variable transmission. As a result, the best a Mégane CC will do even in the top spec is 0-62 in about eleven seconds... but at least you'll have the wind in your hair, when you want it to anyway.
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