Growing up, I was taken to school in a string of Peugeot and Renault family cars. I still recall the baby-blue Renault 4 we had, with the dash-mounted, umbrella-handle gearchange that seemed so ...

Launched in 1998, the Clio Renault Sport 172 was the first properly hot Clio since the Williams. Those early Phase 1 cars looked a bit gawky compared with the gorgeous blue-and-gold icon, but don ...