Best Taxi Ever? Renault's Megane Trophy V6

Would you pay triple the normal fare to get a taxi ride in this Renault Megane Trophy race car? We would...

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The Renaultsport Megane Trophy is a very serious racing car. It has a mid-mounted, 400hp, 3.5-litre V6 engine. A paddle-shift gearbox. A spaceframe chassis. It weighs just 980kg. And it is immensely fast.

It's a fair assumption, then, that the Megane Trophy would be absolutely hopeless as a road car, much less a taxi. But some bright spark thought otherwise and challenged Renault to take one to the streets of Paris and give random people lifts.

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As it turns out, the Trophy is an amazing taxi. So long as you don't mind vicious speed. And an engine noise like a very large, very angry mosquito. And a properly awesome sideways-monkey of a driver.

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Paris does actually have very nice taxis, but getting around would be so much more fun and a hell of a lot faster if Renault gifted the French some Megane Trophy taxis. Do it Renault, we dare you.

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