CARS GLOBALMAG August 2016 | Page 46

EVEN MORE AGILE higher grades, the design of the seats is more enveloping for superior lateral support. Thanks to its new customisation programme, New CLIO can be purchased in more than 30 different colour combinations. Customers are invited to choose from: • five roof decals (graded design or single colour) and painted door mirrors for a twotone effect, • four exterior customisation packs: front grill bars and side protective mouldings. New CLIO offers two new interior ambiences, namely Florida Red, Smoky Grey. The colours selected for the dashboard are no longer dictated by those of the seat fabrics, allowing the customer greater freedom when it comes to customisation. its chrome is subtler, with less gleam, and the colours inside the cabin are more refined. The steering wheel has been redesigned, with the discarding of some of its plastic components giving it a more upmarket feel in keeping with the rest of New CLIO’s cabin. In higher-end versions, it is trimmed with full-grain leather. The gear lever, as well as the door panels, have been redesigned for a greater impression of quality. Now in a single housing, the armrests are more aesthetically pleasing thanks to a new grained finish. The seat fabrics are of a higher quality across the board and, in NEW EQUIPMENT THAT PROVIDES AGILITY AND CONNECTIVITY New CLIO is firmly in tune with the times courtesy of R&Go®, a simple yet ingenious system that instantly connects the vehicle with its user’s smartphone. With their smartphone placed in the universal cradle, and thanks to a special application, users can easily and intuitively access the car’s most frequently employed functions which have been separated into four different areas: Navigation, Phone, Multimedia and Vehicle. Mid-range versions of New CLIO come with Media Nav Evolution, a comprehensive multimedia system that offers the best benefitcost ratio on the market, as evidenced by the wealth of features it incorporates.