Check Out The New Renault Clio's Giant, Tesla-Like Tablet Screen
9.3 inches for an infotainment display screen: that’s the sort of thing you’d expect in a mid-to-upper-spec Audi, isn’t it? And yet, the once humble Renault Clio is about to get exactly that.
We say ‘once humble’ because Renault seems to be rather keen to nudge its supermini a little more upmarket to cater for the wants and needs of today’s tech-obsessed new car buyer. That’s why in these new interior images of the incoming fifth-gen Clio, it all looks very posh.
The infotainment screen looks especially large in its Tesla-like vertical position, protruding up and out of the dashboard. It’s slightly curved, angled towards the driver, and takes away many physical controls to de-clutter the dashboard. But don’t worry, you do still get tactile dials for the climate controls, by the looks of it.
This screen teamed up with a 10.1-inch display that forms the instrument binnacle, giving the Clio “the largest screens in its category,” Renault boasts. The 10.1-inch screen is optional, however - as standard, you get a more modest seven-inch setup. We’d assume it’ll be a similar case for the multimedia screen, but this hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Inside the Clio, you’ll also find new seat designs aimed at improving knee space for those sitting in the back while holding those in the front more snugly thanks to an “enveloping shape”. If you don’t like the look of the grey-heavy cabin you see here, the chances are you should be able to spec it to your liking: there are eight “design schemes” available in total.
The car will make its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
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Why Tesla, why?? Y u make big screens and bully us??!?!!
Yeah because French cars are legendary for their electrics to work
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Trunk opens when you open a rear door. That’s part of the 2009 Peugeot 308 SW experience.
200.000km and nothing has happened in mine.
And a wheel becoming flat
Wait is that a manual?
YAYYYY
Literally every hatchback has a manual
My grandad has a 120 tce double clutch and it is a great car.
It is a supermini hatch and not a racecar so it works.
Not only do I not like the tablet-glued-to-dashboard trend, there’s a huge drawback to using them in a cheap hatchback such as the clio. The problem is: people buy basemodels of cars in this segment, and basemodels of this segment always come with single dins, not fancy touchscreens. And if the dash is designed with a tablet in mind, it’ll look AWFUL the second you adapt it to a single din.
Pictured are two examples: Current Clio and Current Fiesta. C3s have the same problem, so do a lot of other cars.
People that want a cheap clio buy a Dacia Sandero. In our Renault dealer, the clio is seen almost as a premium car
Mercedes started this tablet screen thing, on base models cars they have a huge ugly bezel around the screen. On the W213 e class the 8.4 inch audio 20 head unit there is a large flat bezel an it’s horrible.
That cheap Ford Fiesta interior is only available on the entry trim which is like 10% of models sold. Every other trim got a 6.5 or 8 inch touch display.
It has always been like this, it’s the same phenomenon that gave us blank buttons.
The top one is a base clio.
The touchscreen cars dont have normal radios.
I have one.
I had a Peugeot 208 hire car a few weeks back and the problem affects those too unfortunately :/
Those screens ruin an otherwise good interior.
fugly
What is this screen addiction with new cars nowadays, its ridiculous imo
Looking forward to the new Clio RS. I’m quite sure it’s going to be fantastic. The only thing I wish is that it will have a manual gearbox like the old ones. I’m OK with DCTs in high-powered heavier cars (such as the BMW M4), but a small, light sportscar really needs a manual gearbox.
idk, I like the DCT on my grandads 120 tce.
I feel like the best thing they could give us would be a way to disable all stability and traction controls.
The old ones were simple, just take out a fuse and it is done. Now it is so complicated.