Renault Clio

Lettering of the second Clio

The Renault Clio , named after the muse of history in Greek mythology, is a small car produced by the French automobile manufacturer Renault since 1990, available in three- and five-door versions. A station wagon has also been offered since the beginning of 2008. The fifth generation has been available since September 2019. As of July 2019, around 15 million Clio had been produced so far.

development

The first Clio replaced the second generation of the Renault 5 in mid-1990 .

The notchback version of the Clio, available since mid-1999, is called Renault Thalia or (up to the second generation ) Renault Clio Symbol and is particularly popular in Eastern Europe.

In Mexico, the third generation was also called Renault Euro Clio . The older version was accordingly renamed Renault Clio Classic in Asia and will continue to be produced in parallel to the current generation. The second generation was also assembled as Renault Clio Grande or Renault Clio Storia .

At the end of the first and second generation, there was still the Renault Clio Campus designed as an inexpensive special model .

In Asia, South and Central America, the model generation from the 2010s is also offered as the Nissan Platina . The symbol, on the other hand, has now developed into an independent model.

The term “phase” in Renault models refers to the respective facelifts of the corresponding model series. For example, the Phase II Clio II is a second generation model with the first facelift.

The Clio IV from 2012 was the first vehicle with which Renault's new chief designer, Laurens van den Acker , converted his new design line, which was given with the Renault DeZir, into a production vehicle.

At the end of March 2020 it was announced that the small car had climbed to the top of new registrations. The best-selling car up to that point was the VW Golf . However, in the wake of the corona pandemic and the stop of VW production, the top position was lost. In February, the European authorities counted 24,914 registrations of the Renault Clio. The Golf has to say goodbye to its previous top position with 24,735 new registrations.

Sidelines

The mini SUV Captur has been produced on the technical basis of the Clio since 2013 . Likewise, the Dacia Sandero of the first generation (2008) and the Dacia Sandero of the second generation (2012) are based on the Clio (the former on the Clio III, the latter on the Clio IV). Since 2013, the Dacia Logan II MCV has been based on the second generation Sandero and thus indirectly on the Clio IV.

The series at a glance

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  Renault Clio I
  1990 to 1998

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  Renault Clio II
  1998 to 2005
  (as campus: until 2012)

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  Renault Clio III
  2005 to 2013
  (as Collection: until 2014)

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  Renault Clio IV
  2012 to 2019

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  Renault Clio V
  since 2019

Timeline of the model variants

Model variants of the Renault Clio, Renault Thalia, Renault Symbol and Nissan Platina
model	body	1990s																																								2000s																																								2010s
		0				1				2				3				4th				5				6th				7th				8th				9				0				1				2				3				4th				5				6th				7th				8th				9				0				1				2				3				4th				5				6th				7th				8th				9
1st generation (type 57)
Clio	Three- / five-door			Phase I.
Clio	Three- / five-door																		Phase II
Clio	Three- / five-door																													Phase III
2nd generation (type Clio B)
Clio	Three- / five-door																																			Phase I.
Clio Sedan / Clio Symbol / Thalia	Notchback																																			Phase I.
Clio	Three- / five-door																																															Phase II
Clio Classic / Thalia	Notchback																																																	Phase II
Nissan Platina	Notchback
Clio	Three- / five-door																																																								Phase III
Clio Campus	Three- / five-door																																																																Campus 1 phase
Clio Campus	Three- / five-door																																																																															Phase Campus 2
Clio Mio	Three- / five-door																																																																																												Phase million
Based on 2nd generation
Thalia II / symbol	Notchback
3rd generation (type Clio R)
Clio	Three- / five-door																																																																Phase I.
Clio Grandtour / Clio Estate	Station wagon																																																																									Phase I.
Clio	Three- / five-door																																																																														Phase II / Collection
Clio Grandtour / Clio Estate	Station wagon																																																																														Phase II / Collection
4th generation (type X98)
Clio	Five-door																																																																																												Phase I.
Clio generation	Five-door																																																																																																																							Phase II
5th generation
Clio	Five-door																																																																																																																							Phase I.

Clio as a racing car: Clio Cup

Brand cups have been held with the Renault Clio for years , including the Europe-wide Eurocup Clio as part of the World Series by Renault . In Germany, too, there was an independent Clio Cup from 2002 to 2007: This version of the brand cup was called the “Renault Clio Cup” until 2005 and “ New Renault Clio Cup ” from 2006 onwards . The Clio Cup Bohemia was held from 2011 to 2013, followed by the Clio Cup Central Europe since 2014 . Other countries in which Clio-Cups exist or did exist are France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, China, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland .

Master of the Eurocup Clio

season	driver
2011	Nicolas Milan
2012	Oscar Nogués
2013	Josh Files
2014	Oscar Nogués

Champion of the Clio Cup Central Europe

season	driver
2013	Dino Calcum
2014	Dino Calcum
2015	Pascal Eberle
2016	Dino Calcum
2017	Tomáš Pekař
2018	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen
2019	Tomáš Pekař

Web links

Commons : Renault Clio  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the current Clio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ adac.de from July 19, 2019, Renault Clio 2019: Test drive in the Polo competitor , accessed on October 27, 2019.
2. ↑ Renault: the design renewal strategy by Laurens Van Den Acker , January 16, 2015, interview in French with English subtitles; accessed on January 4, 2016.
3. ↑ Volkswagen is falling behind: The Golf is suddenly no longer number one in Europe. Retrieved March 27, 2020 . 
4. ^ Hungaroring - Renault Clio Cup Hungary - Race - Provisional Classification. (PDF; 86 kB) wsr.alkamelsystems.com, July 15, 2007, accessed on March 30, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Rounds 5 & 6 - Marrakech (MAR), Event timetable. (PDF; 62 kB) (No longer available online.) Fiawtcc.com, April 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 4, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Presentation. (No longer available online.) Renault-sport.fr, archived from the original on November 25, 2005 ; Retrieved March 30, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Results. In: Renault Sport Germany. Accessed November 15, 2019 (German).