A rounder, larger replacement launched in April 1998, sold across Europe as a hatchback and, in several markets, as a four-door saloon badged Symbol or Clio Sedan.[1] Renault kept the pre-facelift car in production as the budget-priced “Clio Campus” alongside its Clio III successor for years afterwards, which is why this entry’s production window runs to 2012 rather than the mid-2000s the Mk3’s launch might suggest.
At the top of the range sat two very different performance cars: the front-drive Renault Sport 172/182 hot hatches, and the mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive Clio V6, a low-volume halo model engineered from a one-make racing series car and built by Tom Walkinshaw Racing in Sweden rather than on Renault’s own hatchback line. Across both Phase 1 and Phase 2, Renault built only around 1,500 examples in total; this entry records the earlier, lower-powered Phase 1 as its own trim.
