Renault Megane RS Mk3: 250, 265, 275 and Trophy-R specs and values

The Renault Megane RS Mk3 is the Renault Sport version of the third-generation Megane coupé, built from 2009 to 2016 as the 250, the 265 and the 275: a front-wheel-drive hot hatch with a 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol four-cylinder engine of 247bhp to 271bhp. Its 265 Trophy and 275 Trophy-R editions each took the Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record for a front-wheel-drive production car, the Trophy-R with 7min 54.36sec in June 2014. More than 30,000 were built, and the last left the line on 6 July 2016.

Renault sold it in Sport and Cup forms, the Cup with a stiffer chassis and a mechanical limited-slip differential. The French Gendarmerie chose it as its motorway pursuit car in 2010. Used prices in the UK start at about £5,000 for a tired early 250, according to evo in October 2025, and a Trophy-R with more than 10,000 miles is worth about £30,000.

History of the Renault Megane RS Mk3

The Mk3 Megane RS replaced the Megane R26 and the stripped-out R26.R: a new body and a stiffer chassis over developed versions of the old car's engine, gearbox and PerfoHub front suspension, as evo describes it. Renault showed the Megane Renaultsport 250 at the Geneva motor show in March 2009.

The 250 of 2009

Renault UK's press release of 15 October 2009 priced the 250 Cup at £21,995 on the road and the better-equipped 250 (the Sport) at £22,995, with orders from 1 November and first UK deliveries in January 2010. Its 2.0-litre turbocharged engine gave 250hp (247bhp) and 340Nm of torque. Even the Cup had cruise control, Bluetooth, rear parking sensors and eight airbags. The car was offered only as the three-door Megane coupé.

The 265 Trophy and the 265

The 265 Trophy of June 2011 was a limited run of 500 cars with 15hp more, and it took the Nürburgring record from the R26.R (see below). For 2012 its engine replaced the 250 unit across the range, giving the Megane 265 in Sport and Cup forms. Autocar's used-car guide notes that the 265 still started in a 247bhp map: the full 261bhp came only when the driver pressed the ESP button for Sport mode, which evo notes also relaxes the stability control slightly.

The 2014 facelift and the 275

In 2014 the Megane range was facelifted with a new nose, a larger Renault badge and new lights, and the RS took the same face. The 275 Trophy was revealed on 14 May 2014 with an Akrapovič titanium exhaust and 271bhp (275hp), and the stripped two-seat 275 Trophy-R followed in June 2014 with the second Nürburgring record. The last model was the 275 Cup-S of 2016, which put the Cup chassis and 271bhp into a cheaper car with fewer comforts.

The end of production in 2016

The last third-generation Megane Renault Sport, a 275 Cup-S in Liquid Yellow, was finished at the Palencia plant in Spain on 6 July 2016, Car Enthusiast reported. It went on sale at the Arnold Clark Renault dealer in Dundee at £31,930, of which £7,995 was options, against a list price of £23,935. Jeremy Townsend, Renault UK's communications director, said the UK was "one of the biggest markets in the world for Renault Sport models". The next Megane RS, based on the fourth-generation Megane, was shown at the Frankfurt motor show in 2017 with a 1.8-litre engine and five doors.

Is it the Mk3 or the Mk2 Megane RS?

Both names are in use for the same car. It is built on the third-generation (Mk3) Megane, so most UK magazines and sellers call it the Megane RS Mk3; it is the second Renault Sport Megane, so PistonHeads calls it the gen-two RS. The first RS Megane (the 225, 230, R26 and R26.R, from 2004) is based on the Mk2 Megane, and the 280 and 300 sold from 2018 are based on the Mk4. PistonHeads also lists the names the car has been sold and advertised under: Renaultsport Megane, Megane Renaultsport, Megane Renault Sport and Megane RS, with Renault itself writing R.S.

Design and engineering

The Mk3's engineering gains are in the chassis. Evo's report from the 2009 launch in Spain lists them: a new front subframe three times stiffer than the standard Megane's, beefier damper housings and shafts that double the strength of the struts, and a closed-section rear torsion beam to cut flex.

PerfoHub front suspension

Every Mk3 RS has Renault Sport's PerfoHub front end, which separates the steering axis from the strut so that the steering and the suspension work independently, reducing torque steer. The layout was first used on the Superproduction R21 Turbo racing car at the end of the 1980s, Renault Sport's N4 release of December 2010 noted, and evo's 2009 launch report records that the previous Renaultsport Meganes had it too. Ford's Focus RS used its own version, the RevoKnuckle.

The F4Rt engine and the gearbox

The engine is the F4Rt, a 1,998cc 16-valve four-cylinder with a twin-scroll turbocharger, driving the front wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox (the PK4). PistonHeads gives the redline as 6,500rpm and puts the 265's extra power down to more boost from the turbo; the 275's came from a remap and the Akrapovič exhaust, which also saved 4kg.

Sport and Cup chassis

The Cup Suspension Pack added a mechanical limited-slip differential (LSD), stiffer springs, dampers and anti-roll bars, grooved discs, red Brembo calipers, Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tyres and satin black 18-inch "AX-L" wheels, according to the 2009 release. Evo reported the springs as 35 per cent stiffer at the front and 38 per cent at the rear; its 2025 guide gives 28 per cent at the rear. On the 250 the Cup was a model of its own and £1,000 cheaper than the Sport version, which had leather, heated seats, keyless entry and dual-zone climate control; the Cup pack and Recaro seats could be added to a Sport for £1,950. From the 265 onwards the Cup became an option at about £1,350.

RS Monitor and the cabin

RS Monitor, new on this generation, is a data system built into the infotainment system's screen: a G-meter, lap timer, acceleration timer and a choice of throttle maps, with track-day data that could be downloaded, PistonHeads notes. The tachometer has a yellow face, and Recaro front seats were an £850 option on the 250 Cup. Unlike the R26.R and the later Trophy-R, the standard car keeps its rear seats.

Renault Megane RS Mk3 specs and performance

Every variant of the Mk3 Megane RS shares the 1,998cc turbocharged engine and six-speed manual gearbox; the power rose in three steps from 247bhp to 271bhp, and the Trophy-R saved about 100kg.

Sources: Renault UK release (2009), evo (2009, 2011, 2025), PistonHeads (2020), Autocar (2014), GoAuto (2014) for the Trophy-R, Auto Express (2014, 2016). Sources give the 250's top speed as 155mph (PistonHeads) or 156mph (evo, Top Gear). Official combined CO2 was 195g/km for the 250 and 174g/km for the 275 Trophy.

Megane RS Nürburgring lap records

The Mk3 Megane RS set the Nordschleife record for a front-wheel-drive production car twice: 8min 07.97sec with the 265 Trophy in June 2011 and 7min 54.36sec with the 275 Trophy-R in June 2014. Renault Sport's development driver Laurent Hurgon drove both.

Sources: SkiddMark (June 2011), Renault Sport (June 2014), Autocar (May 2014), Honda (March 2015), Autocar India (May 2017).

The 265 Trophy's 8min 08sec lap of 2011

Renault teased the R26.R's successor on 1 June 2011 with a video that ended on Renault's new RS Monitor iPhone app, covered by an engineer's hand before the lap time showed, and asked fans to save the date of 17 June 2011. A SkiddMark report of that week recorded that the R26.R had carried an "8:17" Nürburgring sticker for its 2008 time of 8min 16.9sec. The 265 Trophy lowered the record to 8min 07.97sec, just under nine seconds better, on the road car's Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tyres and new 19-inch wheels; SkiddMark reported that Hurgon set the time on the car's second lap. Most magazines, and Renault's own later releases, round the time to 8min 08sec.

The 275 Trophy-R's 7min 54sec lap of 2014

Seat's Leon Cupra 280 had taken the record at 7min 58.4sec, an average of 96.8mph, and Renault's "Under 8" project took the new car to the Nürburgring to win it back. Renault Sport's announcement gave the Trophy-R's time as 7min 54.36sec, 14 seconds quicker than the 2011 Trophy, on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres made for the car. Top Gear put the gain over the R26.R at 23 seconds.

Who took the record next?

Honda announced on 3 March 2015 that a Civic Type R development car had lapped in 7min 50.63sec. Honda's release said the lap was run in May 2014, before the Trophy-R's, in a car with a roll cage and without air conditioning or a passenger seat. Volkswagen's Golf GTI Clubsport S lowered the mark to 7min 49.21sec in May 2016, Autocar India recorded, and it held the record when the last Mk3 Megane RS was built.

Megane RS Mk3 variants and special editions

Beyond the 250, 265 and 275 in Sport and Cup forms, the UK had five main limited or special editions of the Megane RS Mk3: the 265 Trophy, the Red Bull Racing RB8, the 275 Trophy, the 275 Trophy-R and the 275 Cup-S.

Megane 265 Trophy (2011)

Evo's report of 10 June 2011 gave the Trophy's UK price as £27,820, £600 more than a 250 Cup with the Recaro package, with access to all of Renault Sport's UK track days in 2012. It had the Cup chassis, Recaro seats with yellow belts, 19-inch black Speedline wheels with red rims, Liquid Yellow paint (or black) and red "Trophy" decals on the front blade and doors. Fifty of the 500 came to the UK; SkiddMark reported UK order books opening on 20 June 2011 and first deliveries due in late July. PistonHeads gives the price as £27,620.

Red Bull Racing RB8 (2013)

The RB8 celebrated Renault's engine partnership with Red Bull, and Sebastian Vettel's Formula One titles in Renault-engined cars. It was a 265 Cup in Red Bull colours, with dark blue paint and platinum details, gloss black 19-inch wheels, smarter seat materials and a TomTom sat nav, with no engine changes, at £28,245 according to PistonHeads. Top Gear says 30 came to the UK in 2013, with the Cup chassis, Recaro sports seats and an early version of RS Monitor.

Megane 275 Trophy (2014)

The 275 Trophy cost £28,930, PistonHeads reported on 17 June 2014, with the Cup chassis, Akrapovič exhaust, Recaro seats and a full set of seats and comforts. Ohlins Road & Track adjustable dampers were a £2,000 option and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres about £1,000 more. Autocar's report of 14 May 2014 said it would be sold in 20 countries, and Auto Express counted 100 for the UK, each with numbered door sills.

Megane 275 Trophy-R (2014)

The Trophy-R is a two-seater: the rear seats make way for a strut brace and luggage nets, and the fronts are fixed bucket seats from Recaro (the polycarbonate Pole Position), which save 42kg, Renault Sport said. The sound deadening, radio and air conditioning are deleted; a lithium-ion battery (16kg lighter) and 350mm steel and aluminium front discs (3kg lighter) came in the optional Nürburgring Pack in the UK, and Renault put the total saving at nearly 100kg. Evo's 2025 guide gives the seat saving as 22kg. It has the Cup chassis, the Akrapovič exhaust, one-way adjustable Ohlins dampers with composite springs and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres. Renault built 250 for 15 countries; evo reported 30 for the UK from £36,430. Car magazine's review listed a £1,995 Nürburgring Pack with the battery, the big brakes, harnesses and tyre covers, and a £500 option to put the radio back.

Megane 275 Cup-S (2016)

The Cup-S was the run-out model, from about £24,000 with the Cup chassis and 271bhp but without the sat nav, touchscreen, DAB radio and dual-zone climate control. Buyers could add the Trophy-R's parts as options: Ohlins dampers at £2,000, an Akrapovič exhaust at £2,500 and Potenza tyres at £1,000, PistonHeads listed.

Editions for other markets

Renault Japan sold a limited Megane RS Gendarmerie edition of 20 cars in 2014, painted a darker Bleu Roi than the French police cars, according to L'argus. Australia, which Renault Australia called the second-largest Renault Sport market in the world in 2014, paid A$61,990 for the Trophy-R, GoAuto reported in December 2014.

The Gendarmerie Megane RS

The French Gendarmerie Nationale ordered 70 Megane RS cars in October 2010 to replace the Subaru Impreza WRX of its Brigade rapide d'intervention (BRI), the motorway pursuit units, with the first car due before the end of 2010 as a training car and the rest in service from 2011. A SkiddMark report of October 2010 recorded that the Gendarmerie had chosen the Cup chassis for its high-speed handling, its limited-slip differential and its brakes, that the engine was adapted to the force's needs for acceleration and speed, and that Renault had earlier supplied the Gendarmerie with the Alpine A110 and A310 and the Renault 21 2-litre Turbo.

The tender

The Gendarmerie's tender asked for at least 260ch, no more than 26 seconds for a standing kilometre, under 10 litres per 100km and under 240g/km of CO2, Caradisiac reported on 22 October 2010. Subaru's Impreza STI missed the last two at 10.3 litres and 243g/km; the 250 was rated at 8.4 litres and 195g/km but had to be tuned past 260ch. The contract was worth €2.1 million before tax for 70 cars, about €30,000 each, of which €5,000 was the equipment fitted by Durisotti, and it was part of an order for 900 Renaults.

How many served, and what happened to them

L'argus, writing in August 2021, counted 64 cars delivered from 2011, remapped to about 255–260ch and painted Extreme Blue from the standard colour chart, with the flashing lights moved from the grille to behind the windscreen. The car now in the Gendarmerie museum joined it in spring 2021 with nearly 400,000km on its odometer. Seventeen Seat Leon Cupras replaced the Meganes from the end of 2020.

The Megane RS Mk3 in competition

Renault Sport Technologies turned the Mk3 RS into a Group N rally car, the Megane Renaultsport N4, announced in December 2010 and sold to private teams as a kit of parts. The Megane Trophy racing car of the same years shared only its looks with the road car.

Megane Renaultsport N4 rally car

Renault Sport's release of December 2010 described an asphalt rally car with 265hp and 470Nm from a recalibrated engine, a five-speed H-pattern gearbox, three-way adjustable Ohlins dampers and the PerfoHub front end, in a line of Group N Renaults from the 5 GT Turbo and R11 Turbo to the Clio Renaultsport. A SkiddMark report of that month gave the kit's price as €57,500 (£48,250) and its tyres as BF Goodrich on 18-inch wheels. L'argus drove it in December 2010 and gave 270ch, 355mm front discs and a hydraulic handbrake; with the road car and the fitting, a ready-to-rally N4 cost more than €100,000. Manu Guigou, the rally driver who developed it, told L'argus it was already about half a second per kilometre faster than his Clio R3 Maxi.

The Megane Trophy V6 race car

The one-make Megane Trophy racing car wore a Mk3-shaped composite body over a spaceframe chassis with a 3.5-litre V6, PistonHeads notes; these cars were assembled at Dieppe and sold to racers at £126,000 each, while the road cars were built in Spain.

How many Megane RS Mk3 cars were made?

More than 30,000 third-generation Megane Renault Sport cars were built between 2009 and July 2016, Auto Express and Car Enthusiast reported when the last one was finished. Renault gave no breakdown by model in the sources read here; the 275 Trophy's door sills and the Trophy-R's build plate carry each car's number.

Sources: evo (2011, 2014), PistonHeads (2020), Auto Express (2014), Autocar (2014), Renault Sport (2014), Caradisiac (2010), L'argus (2021).

Megane RS Mk3 prices, new and used

New, a Mk3 Megane RS cost from £21,995 for the 2009 250 Cup to £36,430 for the 275 Trophy-R. Used, evo's October 2025 guide put values at £5,000 for scruffy early cars to more than £14,000 for the best later ones, with the Trophy-R at about £30,000 with more than 10,000 miles and £50,000 or more under 1,000 miles.

UK prices when new

Sources: Renault UK (2009), evo (2011, 2014), PistonHeads (2014, 2020), Car Enthusiast (2016).

What is a Megane RS Mk3 worth today?

Evo's guide prices a 250 from £5,000, a 265 from £6,000 and a 275 from £8,000, and a fully optioned Cup-S at up to £20,000. Options carry value: a car with Recaro seats carries about £2,000 more than one without, and the same goes for the Ohlins dampers and Akrapovič exhaust on 275s. The table below lists every Mk3 Megane RS sale on the Collecting Cars auction site from August 2024 to January 2026 held in the price records we read, in US dollars as those records give them.

Sources: each car links to its record: classic.com vehicle records of the Collecting Cars sales, and for the 250 Cup Trophée, whose price comes from The Classic Valuer's records, the Collecting Cars lot page (mileage and location). Read on 28 October 2026. The Trophy-R sold in May 2025 and the one sold in January 2026 are the same car, resold after 812 more miles; the January 2026 Collecting Cars listing gives it as number 210 of 250.

Buying a Megane RS Mk3: reliability and known faults

The Megane RS has a strong engine and a reliability record PistonHeads called "not at all bad", but it needs its cambelt changed on time and many cars have been driven hard or on track. The faults the buying guides list most are gearbox bearings, suspension joints and top mounts, and oil leaks.

Engine and cambelt

Autocar's guide gives the cambelt and water pump interval as six years or 75,000 miles; evo advises five years or 70,000 miles for the timing belt and three years for the auxiliary belt, because a snapped belt can wreck the F4R engine. Check for oil leaks at the rocker cover and sump, and for blue or black smoke at start-up. Autocar specifies 5W-40 fully synthetic oil. Engine and gearbox mounts wear, and evo names the upper gearbox mount bolts.

Gearbox, clutch and differential

The PK4 gearbox can suffer noisy bearings, often after leaking driveshaft seals have let the differential bearings wear; PistonHeads budgets about £1,200 for a rebuild, adds that clutch slave cylinders and dampers leak, and warns that some transmission noise is normal but a whine at certain speeds is not. The dual-mass flywheel can start clicking after 60,000 miles, Autocar says, and evo warns that the limited-slip diff on Cup cars can grumble.

Suspension, brakes and tyres

Top mounts split, anti-roll bar drop links knock, and worn lower swivel joints creak on full lock; Autocar says a bad case makes the car undrivable. Evo adds worn hub pivots. In PistonHeads' 2020 guide many suspension, steering and drivetrain faults appear at 40,000 to 50,000 miles, front tyres last about 8,000 miles and cost £150 to £200 each, and front brake discs cost about £200 each.

Body, interior and electrics

Rear wheel arches collect stone chips that turn to rust if left; blocked scuttle drains leave the footwells damp, and the driver's seat bolsters split. Evo names the key card as troublesome, and faulty seat sensors can light the airbag warning.

Running costs and tuning

PistonHeads reported normal services at £200 or less and fuel economy in the low 30s mpg on the motorway and mid-20s in town; some owners, it adds, think the cars made more than their stated power from new and see no need for a remap. Floyd Hollinshead of the specialist RS Four Ashes told Autocar that a Stage 1 remap and panel filter to 300bhp cost £349, and a K-Tec Racing Stage 2 pack to 350bhp £4,500 fitted, with brake and suspension upgrades needed.

Rivals

The Megane RS was compared in its time with the Ford Focus RS Mk2, the Golf GTI and Golf R from Volkswagen, the Seat Leon Cupra and the Honda Civic Type R. Top Gear called the 300bhp, five-cylinder Focus RS its toughest rival at launch and said the Megane weighed about 100 kilos less. By 2014 PistonHeads set the 275 Trophy against the Leon Cupra, Golf R and Audi S3, each with, in its words, "more power, prestige or driven wheels", and Auto Express found the 275 Trophy too firm for daily use beside a Leon Cupra or Golf R. PistonHeads noted that a Golf GTI cost £3,500 more than a 2016 Cup-S. On the Nordschleife the Megane's rivals were the Leon Cupra 280, Civic Type R and Golf GTI Clubsport S (see the records table above).

Reception

Evo's first 250 Cup review, of December 2009, said: "the Megane 250 is a good hot hatch, but a great one? I'm not sure." The same review found that "on the smooth stuff the Megane is blistering". Of the 275 Trophy in 2015 Henry Catchpole wrote that it was "extremely hard to fault", and evo's 2025 guide called the car "arguably the defining hot hatch of the 2010s".

When the last car was built in 2016, Top Gear said the seven-year-old Megane still offered "the most raw and exciting hot hatch driving experience on sale", ahead of the Civic Type R for thrills. Evo's James Taylor found "buckets of bite on turn-in, chewing-gum traction on exit" in a 265 Cup. Car magazine compared the Trophy-R's induction and titanium exhaust noise to "Darth Vader trapped under the bonnet". The common complaints were the hard Cup ride, the R-Link infotainment and the cabin's ergonomics: evo's James Taylor found the gear lever a stretch and the steering wheel "an oddly flat angle, like a kart's".

Questions

Is the Renault Megane RS Mk3 four-wheel drive?

No, it is front-wheel drive. Every Mk3 Megane RS drives its front wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox. The Cup chassis adds a mechanical limited-slip differential, and the PerfoHub front suspension limits torque steer.

How do you get the full power of a Megane 265?

Press the ESP button to select Sport mode for the full 261bhp (265PS). The 265 starts in a 247bhp map, and holding the button longer switches the stability aids off, according to Autocar.

How fast is a Megane RS 275?

The 275 Trophy and Cup-S were quoted at 6.0sec for 0–62mph and 158mph flat out from 271bhp (275PS). The two-seat Trophy-R is quoted at 5.8sec to 100km/h.

Does the Megane Trophy-R have rear seats?

No. The 275 Trophy-R is a two-seater: a strut brace and luggage nets take the place of the rear seats, and the fronts are fixed Recaro Pole Position buckets.

Where was the Megane RS Mk3 built?

At the Palencia plant in Spain, where the last car was finished on 6 July 2016. The earlier RS Meganes were assembled at Dieppe in France.

Can you remap a Megane RS 250?

Yes. The RS Four Ashes specialist told Autocar that a Stage 1 remap and panel filter gives about 300bhp for £349, and a Stage 2 pack about 350bhp for £4,500 fitted, with brake and suspension upgrades needed.

What is RS Monitor on the Megane RS?

A data system in the Megane RS infotainment screen with a G-meter, lap timer and acceleration timer, which also lets the driver choose between throttle maps. It was new on the Mk3.

Sources

• Renault UK, "Megane Renaultsport 250" press release, 15 October 2009 (as published by Cars UK): UK prices, Cup and Sport specification, colours, on-sale dates.
• What Car?, "Megane Renaultsport 250 launched", 15 October 2009: Cup equipment, order and delivery dates.
• Evo, "Renaultsport Mégane 250 Cup review", 17 December 2009: chassis changes, spring rates, prices, verdict.
• Evo, "Megane Trophy 265 details and pictures", 10 June 2011: 265 Trophy power, performance, equipment, price, UK allocation.
• SkiddMark, "Renault readies its R26.R successor to be revealed on 17th June", 1 June 2011, and "Megane RS 265 Trophy sets new FWD lap record of the Nürburgring", June 2011: the teaser, R26.R time, lap details, tyres, UK order dates and price.
• SkiddMark, "France's Gendarmerie select 70 Megane R.S. for pursuit fleet", October 2010: the order, Cup chassis, earlier Gendarmerie Renaults.
• SkiddMark, "Megane Renaultsport 250 spawns a rally car", December 2010: N4 kit price, tyres, specification.
• Caradisiac, "Les Renault Mégane RS de la Gendarmerie seront préparées à plus de 260ch", 22 October 2010: tender requirements, contract value, Durisotti equipment.
• L'argus, "Renault Mégane RS gendarmerie. La BRI revient aux sources", 28 August 2021: cars delivered, power, livery, museum car, replacement, Japanese edition.
• Renault Sport, Megane Renaultsport N4 press release, December 2010 (as published by Autoblog): N4 specification, PerfoHub history, kit sales.
• L'argus, "Essai rallye : Renault Megane N4", 29 December 2010: power, brakes, kit and finished-car cost, Manu Guigou's comments.
• Complete Car, "New Renault rally car", 9 December 2010: N4 gearbox, brakes, kit price.
• Autocar, "Renaultsport Megane 275 Trophy revealed ahead of Goodwood debut", 14 May 2014: 275 power, torque, CO2, markets, Seat's record.
• Renault Sport, "7m54.36s: new lap record at the Nürburgring for Mégane R.S. 275 Trophy-R", June 2014 (as published by cliocup.fr): lap time, production, weight savings, specification.
• Evo, "Renault Megane 275 Trophy-R reclaims Nurburgring FWD record", 16 June 2014: driver, UK allocation and price.
• GT Spirit, "Renault Megane RS 275 Trophy-R sets new Nurburgring record", 16 June 2014: the 2011 time to the hundredth, Seat's time.
• PistonHeads, "Megane Renaultsport 275 Trophy: driven", 17 June 2014: 275 Trophy, Trophy-R and 265 prices, options.
• Auto Express, Renault Megane RS 275 Trophy review, 28 July 2014: UK allocation, performance, ride.
• GoAuto, "Renault Megane RS 275 Trophy-R arrives", 8 December 2014: Australian price, performance, Renault Australia's market claim.
• Car magazine, "Renault Megane Renaultsport 275 Trophy-R (2014) review", 26 January 2015: Nürburgring Pack, options, verdict.
• Honda, "New Honda Civic Type R throws down Nürburgring gauntlet", 3 March 2015: lap time, date and car.
• Autocar India, "Nürburgring categorised lap records: a rundown", 20 May 2017: Golf GTI Clubsport S and Civic Type R records.
• PistonHeads, "Renault Megane R.S. (Mk3): PH used buying guide", 2021: the fourth-generation Megane RS of 2017 (Frankfurt show, 1.8-litre engine, five doors).
• Top Gear, "The last mk3 Megane RS is built", 23 August 2016: the model history, Trophy-R gain over the R26.R, rivals, verdict.
• Auto Express, "Last ever Mk3 Renaultsport Megane is on sale now", 23 August 2016: production total, last car, timeline.
• Car Enthusiast, "Last Megane RS", 23 August 2016: last car's build date, plant, options and price, Renault UK quote.
• PistonHeads, "Renault Megane RS 250/265/275: PH used buying guide", 22 September 2020: naming, specification, RB8, Cup-S, faults, running costs.
• Autocar, "Used car buying guide: Renault Megane RS", 6 May 2019: model history, Sport mode, checks, specialist comments.
• Evo, "Used Renault Megane RS (Mk3, 2009–2016) review", 3 October 2025: engineering, RS Monitor, specification table, values, faults, quotes.
• classic.com vehicle records and The Classic Valuer's records of Collecting Cars sales, 2024–2026, with the Collecting Cars lot pages, read on 28 October 2026: the auction results table.