The Wind of Change Hits the Highway ; It May Not Be the Weather for Open-Topped Motoring, but Roy Woodcock Still Managed to Raise a Smile by Driving Renault's Latest Sports Roadster, the Wind ...

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Every now and again you can rely on Renault to produce a car out of left field. The general reaction when you see them is that they will never work in the UK market. But you know what? The result is a breath of fresh air in an industry where uniformity and fear of failure is the name of the game.

Twice in the 1990s it went out on a limb - first with the mpv- based 2+2 Avantine and then, in a bid to reintroduce a luxury car to their range, the Val Satis. They were both idiosyncratic and weird looking. And both sank without trace over here - I only ever saw one of each driven by anyone other than a motoring journalist.

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The Wind of Change Hits the Highway ; It May Not Be the Weather for Open-Topped Motoring, but Roy Woodcock Still Managed to Raise a Smile by Driving Renault's Latest Sports Roadster, the Wind ...

But for every failure there is success. I love the coupe version of the Laguna, for instance, particularly the one with a panoramic glass roof. That's a real touch of class. And The Twingo - not exactly a supermini clone - puts a smile on a lot of faces.

Best of all, there are all the Renaultsport versions of their big- sellers like Clio and Megane, which are a real hoot to driv...

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