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Official presentation in Cannes
Ladies and gentlemen, this is no rendering at all. Hours prior to the official reveal of the Renault Mégane Coupé, its official pictures have leaked in the internet, anticipating the beautiful lines of this French car. Carlos Ghosn, Renault CEO, would be the first one to present the car to the public in Cannes, but the World Wide Web has given World Car Fans an overview of what, according to the Spanish site KM77.com, will be available to the Europeans by the third quarter of 2008.

As images may worth a thousand words, there is very little to say about the car that you cannot figure out for yourself, but the rear end has kept the same ideas presented by Laguna Coupé Concept, as well as most of its lines. Other features, such as hidden door handles and LED headlamps, have not made it into the production version. The engine the concept presented, a 3-litre V 6 turbodiesel that generated 235 bhp, has not been officially confirmed so far (it is a matter of hours), but CarScoop states it will be available, as well as the 2-litre four cylindre petrol engine already used by Laguna and a 3.5-litre V6 petrol motor delivering 240 bhp. Official information will come out very soon. Stay tuned!


worldcarfans

Modern Renaults are ugly, this is the one exception.

finally a new french sport coupé with fluent lines
the new generation is definitly going to look better - the spy shots of the new megane are very promising

Wow, too much Aston Martin!

^ yeah, the lights look good but the car is to squashed and tall!

AMV8 inspired rear end. The car could have been a stunner but the snout-like shape of the boot lid ruined it a little, they over exaggerated. Worst of all is the shaping of the side windows around the C-pillar. The window doesn't flow will the rest of the car at all and distorts the overall design. They should have gone with a similar shape of the rear side window like Audi did with the A5:

Agreed, first thing that poped in my head when I saw the rear was:
"wait a minute, they ripped AM"

... nonetheless, a pretty coupe.

I think exactly the opposite... The A5 would have been much better if they didn't botched the rear side windows...

It looks like they were out of ideas to make it look less like an A4 and not too much like a TT.

For the Renault... the front is way too much like Peugeot... But with an AM grill...

not to bad

Good looking but the front could have been much better without this ultra ugly grill.