Test Drive Renault Scenic since 2009 Minivan

Renault Scenic 1.6: Scenic image

The first Scenic appeared 13 years ago, and since then it is rightly called one of the most futuristic minivans in the market. However, as they managed to make sure whether it was not strong in practicality.
Space! Pretty space! How angry outside, the same smooth inside, Scenic simply discourages the mass of unusual solutions. The electronic scoreboard referred to the front stack, and even exactly in the middle of the panel, initially alarming inconvenient, return the arrows and dials! But after a pair of tens of kilometers, I adversely read readings without problems, and from the road was not distracted to translate the gaze to the right, under the windshield safely, than to look at my nose.
The visibility in Renault Scenic is generally above all silence side glazing is simply aquarium, and the rear racks almost do not interfere with the review, this largely compensates for children's size of side mirrors. It will be used to get used only to the invisible edge of the hood, and a frankly bus planting in a simple profile of the chair.
But the fact that the short process of turning on the rotation signal is aligned with the light regulator, the solution is not the best. The latter hangs on the axis, and you can turn it on-off involuntarily, barely hit. On the right of the steering wheel, on the column, there is a whole brood of the buttons and regulators of the audio system to handle them to the touch will have to learn.
The quality of the salon assembly spoils the plastic of low quality. The steering column casing will come forward to the steering wheel, then when lowering the glass, the trimming of the vector would not be noticed, it would not be noticed, to manage Renault Scenic need extremely powerively.
What is the steering wheel of a little informative? Coupling Dame? Brakes first wadded, and you press a little stronger so the pads are dead gripped into the discs? Leave, the same Scenic is the most good-natured of all venons with a mini prefix on Earth. He demands that it is accustomed to him, and do it slowly. On the course of the rez. Although sports in the character of Scenic is not in mom.
But as a gadget on wheels, there is no equal. Let, unlike the Germans, who are struggling for the logical use of each cubic centimeter of the car, French engineers did not endorse the Scenic of a large trunk. Its volume is eaten by a complex stern profile. But in the cabin already 17 different boxes, gloves, compartments and tables are folding, and the rear sofa is not solid, but with a separate adjustment for each of the three passengers!
You will not deceive the image of this car. Family minivan, who knows how to ride inappropriate, but comfortably, and requires addiction in terms of design quite acceptable option even for everyday operation. Scenic is not so technological, as, say, Ford C-Max or VW Touran, but maybe it is more important - the car from France is positive and more interesting in solutions. Boring among this set will not be accurate.

Posted by: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Stunnin

 
 

A source: Magazine "Wheels" [July 2009]