Yahoo Autos Scrapyard Gem: 2007 Renault Mégane Coupé Cabriolet
During the first decade of our current century, plenty of European car shoppers fell hard for hardtop convertibles based on cheap compact cars. That means that those cars are now easy to find in the scrapyards of the United Kingdom, so I headed over to northern England to document some of them. We've taken a look at a 2006 Peugeot 307 CC and a 2005 Vauxhall Tigra TwinTop from that trip, and now it's the turn of the open-air Renault Mégane
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The Mégane first hit showrooms as a 1996 model, with the first generation based on the platform of the Renault 19. For the second-generation Mégane II, which debuted as a 2003 model, the same Renault-Nissan platform that underpinned the Sentra and Rogue was used.
The Coupé Cabriolet version of the Mégane II shared just a few of its front body components with its hatchback sibling.
The rear half looked so good that BYD copied it for its S8 convertible, which got a snout lifted from the Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class for good measure.
