Renault Laguna test drive since 2007 hatchback

Compromise or symbiosis?

The station wagon from Renault changes the image - Laguna II is now not a utilitarian Brack, but a sports tourer.
We are champions!
Any car is a set of compromise solutions: between power and efficiency, comfort and a sense of road, running and freight qualities. By giving preference to one, you almost automatically lose others. Meanwhile, the designers and marketers of Renault are in full seriousness: the new Laguna station wagon - convenient, functional, economical, comfortable, roomy, beautiful, and even with a sharp sports character. Imagine what this is a compromise?!
Outwardly, an elegant swift sport tourist far from traditional ideas about the heavy cumbersome universal. Well, who is brave here? Come out! Hands on a thick wheel of the steering wheel, the start button is pressed - yes, no keys, everything is like a real racing car! 140 horses that have revived under the hood allow you to accelerate to hundreds in less than 10 seconds and provide a maximum speed of 210 km/h. The low-profile 17-inch tires of the continental-sport-contact are literally sticking to the asphalt, and the most powerful brakes with 308-mm ventilated discs were simply scared at the first moment-I was inadvertently stomping on the pedal, I literally hung on seat belts. For several minutes, he rustled the transmission of the new lagoon, before he came to his senses - there is not a racing highway around, but the lively streets of the center of Paris. People sit at the tables of cafes, walk along the boulevards, rush about their business. Well, I felt the racer, now it's time to try on the role of the clerk of the clerk ...
Service Service
Perhaps it should start with the fact that the pocket does not protrude the bunch of keys with the signaling key fob - their role was taken by a small magnetic card, the size of a credit one. It is conveniently placed in the pocket of the wallet, and in order to turn on the ignition, you need to insert it, as into an ATM, into a slot on the central console. By the way, in case of the death of the battery or a complete refusal of electronics in the card there is a thin sting of an ordinary key.
Now we’re leaning the silver took the shield - under it, away from immodest eyes, two standard Din -Ov boxes for audio equipment are hidden. Meanwhile, the inscription on the dashboard lit up on the dashboard and its exact value in all four wheels - on the left side by one tenth more, in the expectation that the driver more often drives alone.
It’s spacious behind the wheel, ladies may not be afraid for the safety of a lush hairstyle. However, a tall big man, moving far back, risks risking his shoulder into the body rack, and a massive console is slightly crowded. Summary of the speaker (four more are called Otentik, express, led and initial) is very rich: numerous electric drives, climate and cruise control, parking sensors and much more. Scattered will evaluate the lock button when the transmission is turned on and unexpressed clutch. A powerful motor is undemanding in the choice of transmission, as it provides confident craving in a wide range of revolutions - if you have nowhere to rush, after starting you can immediately go to the third gear and forget about the box until the next traffic light. Some stinginess of external mirrors compensates for a large internal one - by the way, with automatic obscure.
 
A special display shows the pressure in all four wheels

Instead of the key - a magnetic card, the engine is launched by a button, two standard Din -OV slots for audio equipment in the parking lot are closed with a special shield
   
To free rein, in pampas
So the weekend came up - I want to go to the mountains, wife to the sea, children in Disneyland, and the dog is just to nature. Well, hold on, Tourer ...
Roof religions are ready to take up to 70 kg of cargo - five sets of ski equipment do not weigh even half. For bags, suitcases and dogs, a spacious hold of 475 liters is designed - you can load it by opening a whole huge fifth door or lifting up only glass. If necessary, add a split (60/40) rear seat, increasing the volume of the cargo compartment to one and a half cubic meters. The smallest passengers are seated in children's chairs, fixed directly on the body of the car using the ISOFIX system. It is not necessary to mess with children's lock, excluding the opening of the rear doors from the inside - it turns on the key on the driver’s armrest. Eternally interfering with the hands of small things, we pushing through a variety of boxes-peaks-stations, which have numbers here. Soft head restraints of the original design are simply invited to take a nap on the long run. And for boring comfort, you can fence off from the whole world with a curtain stretching from the door.
Gas station? Thank you, do not - a 70 -liter tank on the highway is enough for more than a thousand kilometers. Firstly, the system of direct fuel injection into the cylinders, which allowed the engine to work on an extremely poor mixture, and secondly, good aerodynamics, took care of this air.
 
For the first time in Europe
The F5R 2.0 16V IDE engine is the first European power unit with a direct injection of gasoline into the cylinders. It is characterized by high efficiency and satisfies the strictest EURO IV toxicity standards, which will become mandatory in 2005. Adjustable inlet route and phases of gas distribution allow you to develop at least 85% of the maximum torque in a wide range from 2000 to 5650 rpm.
 
We draw conclusions
Evening - I turn on the headlights. Yes, ah, with illumination, they clearly missed-the windows of displays flashed with milk on the dark, cut their eyes and interfere with the readings of the devices. And the screen of the navigation system - it is included in the initiation of the Inisia, which I happened to meet later - in general it turned out to be a big original: in the afternoon it demonstrates the usual card on a white background, and at night the background becomes black! Try to get used to this efficiency of security systems we will not check - we will take a word. Recall only that according to the results of the testing of Euro NCAP, the lagoon received the maximum rating - five stars. There is a full gentleman's set, starting with ABS and stabilization systems, ending with pyrotechnic tensioners and numerous pillows. By the way, the driver's original know -how was used - at a significant rate of collision, additional pyropatrons are triggered and a special explosive seam allows the pillow to inflate to a larger volume. So - safe, economical, roomy, comfortable, fast and very nice. Compromise, say? Well, I agree to one, although it seems to me that the definition of symbiosis is more suitable for a two -liter sports tan - it is so good in each of the qualities.
 
Renault Lagun II with a body of hatchback not only looks more dynamic, but also demonstrates more accurate reactions on the road. Her trunk, of course, is slightly smaller - 430 liters - and the ceiling is not so high in the rear seats area
   
 
There are many little things in the cabin that make the trip pleasant: a mirror with automatic obscure, an eyebrow above the driver’s head, a retractable box in the door

Even the minimum volume of the trunk of a tourer, limited from above, is 475 liters

  
 
Renault Laguna II Sport Tourer 2.0 16V
general information
 
Body
5-seater station wagon
 
Equipped mass, kg
1370
 
Complete mass, kg
1920
 
Length x width x height, mm
4695x1772x1443
 
Base, mm
2748
 
Front/back, mm track
1525/1480
 
Maximum speed, km/h
210
 
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, with
9.9
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
6.0/10.5
 
Fuel supply, l
70
 
Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
4-cylinder in order with two upper camshafts
 
The number of valves per cylinder
4
 
Cylinder diameter /piston stroke, mm
82.7x93.0
 
Working volume, SMZ
1998
 
Compression ratio
10.0
 
Power, L.S. (kW) at rpm
140/5500
 
Torque, kgsm (nm) at rpm
20.7/4250
 
Chassis
 
Transmission
front-wheel drive with systems of track control and stabilization
 
Transmission
5-speed mechanical
 
Suspension:
Spring with stabilizers of anti -resistance stability
 
front
Independent type McEferson, collected on a subframe
 
behind
longitudinal levers connected by an elastic transverse beam
 
Steering
REMENCH with hydraulic power steering
 
Brakes:
Hydraulic disk with a vacuum amplifier and ABS,
in front - ventilated
 
Tires
225/45 R17
 
Yuri Nechetov, photo Yuri Nechetov
 
 

A source: Magazine "Limousine" [01-02/02]