The wife's got an auto Clio - and the gearbox /still works!/
But what actually fails on them? I notice from perusing eBay that the world seems full of Clios with dead autoboxes. I know the standard cure is to replace the entire box - or bin the whole car, but what is it that actually dies?
Apart from that and the persistently leaky sunroof it's a nice little car - one of the few small autos around.