Test drive by Renault Scenic 2003 - 2009 Minivan

Rubber mood

Renault’s serious attitude to the Russian market and the Russian buyer, of course, pleases. This is not even about the opening of the Autoframs factory and the launch of the Logan model for the production of the Logan model, although this step is eloquent like no other.
 

We are talking about such trifles like catalogs of accessories and a service for service, which provides a list of work performed during planned work with an accurate indication of their value.

 

And that's not all. Recently, the branded technical assistance service of Renault Assistan Truth began work, so far only in Moscow and the Near Moscow Region. The service works around the clock, seven days a week and at strictly fixed tariffs. Moreover, it is said that one of the partnership companies Renault completes the preparation of electronic maps of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and French cars will be the first with the navigation systems fully functioning. For complete happiness, only an exclusive lending program is not enough (which operates in relation to the Vsevolozhsk Fords), but Renault is working in this direction.

  

It turns out that the purchase of Renault is justified than ever, the evidence of which is the obviously increased number of these cars on the streets. The market with amazing enthusiasm even met the second Scenic, despite the fact that compactwenes in our country are still far from the most popular variety of four-wheeled. How does he seduce the conservative minds of Russians?
 

To begin with, Scenic looks good. Not bad! It has the sharpness of the lines inherent in the current Renault style, but there are no solutions embarrassing the mind like the stern of the Megane hatchback. The appearance of the car is as modern as it is harmonious: nothing superfluous. Without twist. In addition, a well -tailored compactwane looks really compact in visual sensations, it is unlikely to be larger than Peugeot 307. Well, maybe a little taller. Little bit.
 
The interiors of French machines are known for their deliberate plasticity, there is not even an attempt to distract from this material, to disguise its distress. Scenic is in some way an exception: all attention here is automatically attracted to an elegant liquid crystal dashboard, put over the central console for public display. There are no words, spectacularly, for passengers is clearly, only the driver is inconvenient to constantly mow right.

There are other funny things in the scenes. The usual key is replaced by an electronic card, respectively, launches and dramatizes the current, fashionable start-stop-keywide. Add here the electromechanical handbrake, which turns on, turns off itself, and the futuristic appearance of the steering wheel switches. Agree, already something. However, the most important thing in this machine is the fitness for the transportation of all kinds of little things: I have never met so many hidden containers! The dreamer's dream, a headache of a customs officer!

  

Consider yourself. Reminent boxes of 6 liters each under the front seats and three under the rear. 3.5-liter compartments in the floor in front of the front seats and 11-liter in front of the rear. The sliding console between the front chairs with a bread of 15 liters, a 17-liter glove compartment. Decent pockets in all doors and another recess with a lid in a driver's armrest. The folding pocket to the left of the steering wheel. UV-F-F seems to have forgotten anything.

As you can see, Scenic copes with the role of compactwane brilliantly. Any of the three seats of the second row is regulated in the longitudinal direction and along the corner of the back of the back. It can be turned into a table, you can put it with a book, you can even remove it. In the face of the prospects of frequent transportation of long -termers, you can order a separate opening glass of trunk lid. Everything is thought out, everything is organized. And the driver even has an additional panoramic mirror to observe what is happening in the rear of the cabin.

  

How well is the driver personally? Not to say, so that very much. The geometry of landing is at least strange. Numerous adjustments of the steering column and chairs provide at best the pose of the driver of the trolley: I sit high, I hold the steering wheel below. You drive up to the steering wheel resting your knees into the front panel, you move not to reach the steering wheel. True, this is adjusted for my 189 centimeters. I would like to hope that people will not encounter such problems with such problems.
 

High landing, coupled with the far-standing lower edge of the windshield, create a feeling of controlling something very long and bulky. Perhaps a minibus. But the outside Scenic seemed so car! In addition, the driver in this position more acutely perceives the rolls, even if in fact they are insignificant. In general, with the settings of the chassis of this compactwane, everything is just wonderful: the car is very excellent, and it dives deftly, not annoying the excessive desire to slip the front axle. On our roads, the suspension behaves absolutely in French without a trace without a trace, but reacts harshly to those that turned out to be larger.

 

When the car is said about rubber, they are transparently hinting at its extraordinary spaciousness. This colorful epithet is quite applicable to the stage with all its tricks and hiding places. But during the trip there are rubber associations of a completely different sense. It is so plastic, stretched the machine reacts to the commands of the steering wheel and accelerator, which makes the impression of the unnecessority of feedback on these governing bodies. From the same opera long gear: even twisting the previous one, you will not receive the proper pickup on the next. Now you can imagine how Scenic dictates a steppe, family driving manner. And he does everything possible to make the temperamental riding a shade of unnaturalness.

 

Probably so it is necessary. After all, Renault Scenic is really a family car, convenient and safe. A bunch of pillows, five stars in the EURONCAP ranking. We ask the street racers not to worry.
 

The car is provided by the Petrovsky Autocenter.
During the test, the car is insured by Rosno.
 

Autography
Renault Scenic II
Predecessor Megane Scenic (1996)
Premiere March 2003
Standard and elongated Grand body
Engines 1.4-2.0 l (80-136 l.
Production France
Expected replacement 2011
 
Text: Leonid Klyuyev
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 92/2005]