Test drive by Renault Laguna 2005 - 2007 hatchback

Storm in the lagoon

The front of the modernization work that Renault Laguna has been exposed: a new person, engines, suspension, electronic equipment ... One groovy version of GT, which received a 20 -piece turbo engine, which took place on the roads of Italy, which is worth it!
 
While the highway helps us to pass dayly traffic jams on the road from the suburbs of Rome, there is time to settle in the cabin of an updated lagoon. The speedometer arrow froze on the trifles, but legal 130 km/h, and the control takes no more strength than watching some endless series in a comfortable chair. You don’t even have to think about the timely channel change: the navigation system will not only remind you of a pleasant female voice that it is time to turn, but also show how the turn in isometry will look.
 
The idle look slides along the dashboard, the upholstery of the salon, the central console. According to many small details. And I want to touch everything to check: do they deceive, as it sometimes happens, eyes. Not! The finish is indeed thoroughbred, and the quality of the fitting of the upholstery panels is solid. Very well.
 
... The Germans are in a hurry, even on vacation. And now: past the Bavarian engine rustled by just such a rush, which is familiar to the unlimited tariff of his autobahns. Where are you, wait. Here is an expensive roaming. He still won’t hear: only the ears are fluttering in the wind. It remains for me to follow him: how else can I try the car at high speed?
 
The two -liter engine of the GT version, for nothing that turbocharged, has a pronounced shelf of the maximum torque and perfectly pulls from three to five. Laguna GT reliably holds straight and lies on high -speed arcs. You can only complain about the not too elastic (plastic) reactive effect on the steering wheel about zero. This is really from the region of the nit -picking: the machine is perfectly adapted for long trips at high speed and with pleasure.
 
A clear (not in Lagunovsky) work of the gearbox lever, the exact drive of powerful brakes, pleasant - completely non -meter setting up the stabilization system - all these new features in the character of a familiar machine manifested themselves in a sliding flight above the narrow zigzags of a mountain serpentine. If you add here the lack of tendency to build up and tangible delays in the reaction, as well as a good level of comfort, we get a portrait of an excellent hatchback or universal (Grand Touring) of the middle class for an active person. Or families: after all, five euro ncap stars have not gone away. That would only have drummed less paces in the wheeled arches ...
 
However, there are circumstances more important than Kamshkov. Work on the cards of Moscow and St. Petersburg for the navigation complex has not yet been completed, the quality of domestic gasoline inspires sufficient fears to impose a veto for the supply of cars with this engine, and our profile is unusable for the expansion of the chassis of both the standard European and GT- versions.
 
So, the mirage was scattered over the lagoon, and its real outlines are as follows: the new car in Russia will replace the face to the portrait of a la Megane, will be delivered with engines 1.6 (115 hp), 2.0 (130 hp) and) and 2.0T (170 hp, moderate turbocharged version), on an enhanced chassis, so good and not too good a friend of the previous lagoon. However, in the framework of general modernization, reptile stabilizers will become tougher, which promises to slightly improve the running properties of the machine. All levels of possible configuration of a modernized machine from a simple Pack to a prestigious Initiale will be available to us.
 
+ Good running qualities, comfort, interior decoration
- obstacles to deliveries to Russia.
 
Technical characteristics of Renault Laguna GT
 
The body is hatchback
Equipped mass, kg - 1320
Complete mass, kg - 1950
Dimensions (length/width/height), mm - 4598/1774/1433
Base - 2748
Maximum speed, km/h - 235
Acceleration time to 100 km/h, C - 7.2
Control consumption of fuel, l/100 km:
- City cycle - 11.7
- Zagorod - 6.6
- mixed - 8.5
Engine:
- Type- Benz., Row., 4-cyl., 16-valve., with turbocharged.
- working volume, cm3 - 1998
- Power, l. With. at min -1 - 205/5000
- torque, NM at min -1 - 300/3000
Transmission - mechanical, 5th.
Tire size - 225/45R17
 
Text: Dmitry Sokolov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [05/2005]