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Taxidermy: is the French performance car stuffed?

FRANCE HAS TAKEN ANOTHER SWIPE at the performance car, with its already-severe CO2-based taxes in some cases more than doubling for 2021. The increases will result in a new Renault Mégane RS costing its first owner as much as €10,488 in CO2 tax on top of its €40,700 price tag.

These latest increases will most certainly kill off the hot hatch and the wider performance car sector as we know it

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