Renault Laguna test drive since 2007 hatchback

Friend of the musketeer

The new Renault Laguna in the third reincarnation is made with taste. Few modern cars have such a graceful silhouette with such thinly worked out lines of windows, the edges of the hood and trunk.
 

To such things, the main designer of Renault Patrick Lesman is especially attentive. Indeed, for Europeans, the main detail in which the car brand will be accurately determined, the radiator cladding, and in the case of Laguna, also rounding of the window frame. Such a fragment is created for decades and flows from one model to another. That's the updated Renault Laguna, the excellent image, somewhat inherent only to her recognizable features and, in the applied place, a well -recognized corporate rhombus.
 

Inside is no longer minimalism of the High-Tex era. In the Laguna salon there are elements that are mostly familiar in business class cars. By the way, in Europe, typical owners of this car are successful businessmen, often managers, as well as representatives of free professions. More than half of customers are people aged. But this is there, with them. We, of course, have a buyer of these cars different. What is wonderful, the key-card remained in Laguna-3. Those who had cars with this option have already appreciated all the convenience of such electronics.
 

Moreover, Renault did not supplement the machine with alarm, hoping that it would be difficult to choose almost a hundred thousand code options.

Yes, and this model is not at all popular among hijackers.
 

Sitting into the car, drown in a deep armchair with a dense pillow and back. The head and neck protects a special design of the headrest. Landing is located on a long journey. The steering wheel and the transmission selector conveniently lie down in their hands.
 

The car has a well -tuned six -speed machine with a two -liter F4RT moderate power (170 hp and 270 nm) and the same appetite. But the behavior of Laguna on the road deserves excellent ratings. The car describes the turns excellently (largely thanks to the posterior stooping suspension). The force on the steering wheel increases with an increase in speed. Noise insulation and visibility are beautiful.
 

Having spent long hours driving, you get used to the characteristic road sensations, the noise of the air conditioner, tires, the air, the smells of hot asphalt and high -quality fuel at gas stations. The surrounding world narrows to road signs, rare police officers and signs on the highway. And it becomes clear what the new Renault Laguna is. This is a faithful horse.
 

Our experts

Nikolai Lemakhov, Head of the Renault Office of the Automir Civil Code:

I saw the new Laguna at the Renault technocenter in Paris in October last year. I can note that outwardly I liked the car very much. Compared to the previous generation, the car looks significantly more solid and can fully count on a worthy place in its segment. The manufacturer paid serious attention to pre -production tests. Protective samples (about 1000 pieces) underwent an exam for strength and durability in the most difficult operating conditions in Russia, Argentina, Australia, and Malaysia.
 

The manufacturer's plans are very ambitious. Let's say in 2009 it is planned to implement 800,000 copies.
 

In Russia, sales of new items will begin in April-May 2008, it is supposed to sell about 300 cars per month. Meanwhile, over the eight months of the year in Russia, only 727 cars found their owners, that is, about 90 pieces were sold per month. So the new Laguna will have to increase the volume of sales! And if you take into account the volumes of sales of its main competitors in Russia (VW Passat 6733, Pegeout 407 1690 pieces, Toyota Avensis 14 117 pieces, Ford Mondeo 4791, Mazda6 9668 pieces), then to achieve the set goals, you must take about 10% of this segment of the market . A very difficult task, given the achievement of competitors.
 



Alexander Pikulenko
 
 

Source: Mkobil magazine [October/2007]