A new nose is all that’s required to keep the Renault Mégane as fit-as-a-fiddle and at the top of its game at the Frankfurt International Motor Show. Renault revealed the update just days ahead of its official debut at the biggest motor show of the year. No news is available yet on new engines and specifications, although we assume calling it a facelift means the chassis and underpinnings are all identical to the current Mégane.
Adapting the French manufacturer’s ever-changing corporate look, it’s most noticeably the c-segment hatchback’s front-end styling that has changed the most. Nevertheless, the small transformation has created an extraordinary effect and has left a profound impact on the way the new Renault Mégane range looks.
The new Renault Mégane facelift offers up a distinctive grille and new elliptical-shaped headlights that put one immediately in mind of the well-received Renault Clio 4. With a much more prominent Renault diamond logo on the front grille, the facelift is completed with a new front bumper and these same styling tweaks will be applied to the Megane Hatchback, Sport Tourer (a model Renault South Africa doesn’t offer locally), as well as the Coupé and GT models.
Both RenaultSport and GT Line offerings further benefit from a more purposeful-looking stance and new headlights with premium-looking gloss black internal surrounds. Overall though, the new styling is meant to pull all models together under Renault’s ‘unity policy’. The facelifted Renault Mégane joins the crossover Captur, b-segment Clio and Koleos SUV.