The long version

Never sold in the US, so import buyers are only now reaching the 25-year mark on the earliest examples, and what they're importing has a reputation for snapping into oversteer without much warning — a car that filters its own ownership pool by scaring off anyone not fully committed. Values have climbed hard as collector interest in Renault's most unhinged hot-hatch experiment grew, which makes the shrinking group still willing to drive one properly genuinely notable; most cars this expensive and this twitchy get parked instead. The ones still being driven are being driven by people who knew exactly what they bought.