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You wouldn't automatically assume that the Goodwood Festival of Speed would be the right place to launch a car as prosaic as an updated Dacia Duster, but that's exactly what Dacia is doing. While Bugattis, McLarens and Ferraris zoom and zing up the hill past Goodwood House, Dacia will use the Moving Motor Show element of the festival to show off the new Duster. And when you think about it, there's probably more than a few owners of historic, priceless racing cars who also have an affordable, sensible Duster hanging around the place somewhere...
On the outside, the Duster gets mildly revised styling (the grille and lights are new) and inside you can now spec it would a touch-screen for the stereo. There's a new 'Prestige' trim level, which sits above the current top-rank Laureate and which includes 16-inch alloy wheels, the seven-inch touch screen, and a rear parking camera.
DAB radio is now standard (well, it is in the UK and so we assume it will be here, too) and you can now spec the interior with some more upmarket trim finishes.
There's also a new engine choice, a turbocharged 1.2-litre petrol TCe with 125hp, 205Nm of torque, claimed fuel consumption of 46.3mpg (for the front drive version) and Co2 emissions of 138g/km.
Renault will be celebrating both its racing history and its hot-hatch future. The new 275hp Clio RS16 will make a public debut at Goodwood, complete with its eye-searing Liquid Yellow paint job, its 60mm wider body and gloss black 19-inch wheels. "Our aim was to produce a concept car with genuinely outstanding performance credentials", explains Patrice Ratti, Managing Director of Renault Sport Cars and project leader. There will also be a less extreme, but still hardly slow, 220hp Clio Sport Trophy EDC on show.
There's also one of the new cars of 2016 that we're most waiting for - the Twingo GT. No mad power outputs here; the 900cc three-cylinder turbo engine has been tweaked up to just 100hp but Renault is promising a total chassis, suspension and steering makeover and it looks cooler than a polar bear's dangly bits.
At the more mature end of the spectrum lies the new Renault Megane Sport Tourer, making its debut in estate form. It'll be shown off in sporty GT form, with a 205hp turbo engine. For families being dragged around Goodwood by a motorsports-mad relative, there's the relative sanctuary of the new Renault Scenic, which will be making its UK and Ireland debut at the event.
On the historic front, Renault has had a good rummage around the back of its cupboards, and will be bringing a phalanx of classic racing cars, stretching from a 1909 Type AK to the current RS16 F1 car. Other highlights include the 1979 RS10 F1 car that was the first turbo car to win an F1 race, the 1956 Etoile Filante land speed record car with its turbine engine and 1985 Renault 5 Maxi rally car. Star drivers on hand will include current F1 driver Jolyon Palmer and legends of the sport Rene Arnoux and Jean Ragnotti.
As if all that weren't enough, Renault's revived sporting brand, Alpine, will also be out in force at the Festival, showing off its future (the Alpine Celebration, a very lightly disguised concept car version of the brand's upcoming new mid-engined road car, a rival to the likes of the Porsche Cayman and Alfa Romeo 4C), its present (the Signatech Alpine A460 LMP2 race car, which just pulled off a dramatic class win, and sixth place overall, at the Le Mans 24hrs) and its past in the varied shapes of the first Alpine ever (the 1954 La Marquis, a go-faster Renault 4CV which will be part of the Cartier Style Et Luxe Concours d'Elegance) and the 1978 A442B, which won the Le Mans 24hrs outright in the hands of Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud. There will also be a bevvy of the beautiful little A110 coupes, in both rally and road form, on show not least because that's the classic Alpine model that has most closely inspired the new road car.