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The i30 N鈥檚 suspension feels the most unsettled cruising along such roads, and it struggles to deal with large dents in the road surface that the GTI copes well with and the RS just dismisses as if they didn鈥檛 exist. Credit here, no doubt, to the Renault鈥檚 damper-within-a-damper hydraulic bump-stops. For freeways as well as country roads, the Megane RS and Golf GTI feature useful adaptive-cruise systems that can maintain a distance to the vehicle ahead where the i30 N will only maintain a set speed. The previous Megane RS鈥檚 interior was one of its few let-downs - looking somewhat bland with its lack of inspiring design and materials. There鈥檚 improvement for the new model, including vastly easier access to the rear seats, of course. While some budget-price plastics from the standard Megane are still evident, there鈥檚 plenty of squidgy surfaces - including padded door sections featuring a pattern that mimics the black zig-zag weave of carbon fibre.
1190) Alcantara upholstery with red 鈥楻S鈥?headrest logos. Either way you go, the front seats offer excellent support with their deep bolstering while allowing a good degree of freedom. Those seats contribute to a sporty cabin ambience, along with a liberal use of red stitching - including on the beautifully chunky smooth/dimpled leather steering wheel (which also features a red RS logo and the RS-traditional red top-centre strip). The Renault鈥檚 dash is dominated by a vertical slab of black plastic that鈥檚 thankfully made more interesting visually with an array of dials and buttons, and most notably the 8.7-inch portrait touchscreen. As with Teslas and Volvos, this format has its advantages - the two most obvious being reduced scrolling and the ability to see more of a highlighted route on map guidance. The touchscreen鈥檚 response is quick, though page loading can sometimes have a slight delay. Switch to the i30 N and you get a sense that almost the entire budget for the car was spent on engineering, as the cabin presentation doesn鈥檛 match the exhilaration of the driving experience.
The front seats and steering wheel are suitably sporty, though otherwise there鈥檚 really only the Hyundai WRC light-blue Drive Mode and N Custom buttons on the steering wheel trying to tell your friends they鈥檙e not in a regular i30. That鈥檚 not to suggest there鈥檚 nothing contemporary, as the Hyundai鈥檚 鈥榝loating鈥?touchscreen infotainment system is sufficiently up with the times, while neither the RS nor GTI match the i30 N鈥檚 wireless charging pad. In every other respect, though, the Golf GTI brings the most sophistication - stepping up another notch for MY19 with VW鈥檚 configurable digital driver display that is now standard rather than optional. It鈥檚 the perfect complement to the Volkswagen鈥檚 group-benchmark infotainment system, which is the smartest to look at and the smartest to use. 2300 Sound & Style package (fitted to our car) that upgrades to the 9.2-inch version with non-touch page-swiping Gesture Control and a 400-watt Dynaudio Excite system (plus the bigger, 19-inch wheels). 3900 Luxury package (also included on our test car), unless you consider leather seats (with heated fronts and electric adjustment on driver鈥檚 side) and a panoramic sunroof as must-haves.
