While they didn't quite invent the concept, French carmaker Renault do take their hot-hatches rather seriously, so much so that it operates a separate division – called RenaultSport – to build them. That's where the RS initials come into play in the RS 265 badge, with the numbers representing the hiked horsepower figure for the 2012 Megane RS, a model that first came out in 2009 as the RS250.
But at the same time, the above facts do not make the Ford Focus ST the newer, outside contender either. It isn't a set of wheels without its own lineage as the Blue Oval have produced a number of memorable fast small cars since the 1980s. What the two have in common in the present is that they are both after a clientele of moneyed geeks who love motorsports tech in their daily driver, and also the ability to take that car of choice to a track day meet every now and then.
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