Renault Mégane RS 275 Trophy
Why 8.2: The Trophy tune Renault Sport sold to everyone, not just the 250 lucky Trophy-R buyers — same 2.0 turbo four with 10 more horsepower and a stiffer Cup chassis, none of the Ring-record price tag. It never crossed the Atlantic, so American interest is entirely aspirational.
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Median asking price, good condition · €35k (2015) → €19k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
Renault Sport took the Trophy-R's headline-grabbing Nürburgring record and sold a tamer, cheaper version of the same idea to everyone else: the same 2.0 turbo four tuned to 275 PS, the same Cup chassis, none of the stripped interior or the 250-unit waiting list. It launched at a meaningful premium over the standard 265 Cup, and depreciation followed the usual hot-hatch script for the first several years before flattening out as the whole 275/Trophy-R family started aging into modern-classic conversations together. It never sold in the US — Renault left the American market decades before this existed — so what enthusiasm exists here is entirely import-forum and YouTube-derived. The buyers who own one tend to know exactly what the Trophy-R did and bought the closest thing to it they could actually afford.