Faults:

A rear electric window has failed.

Squeaky brakes.

Front passenger seat panel fell off.

Gear knob has faded from silver to a dingey yellow.

General Comments:

This car is quite quick for a 1.4, and it sticks to the road like glue when you go around corners, thanks to the extremely wide tyres.

Mechanical reliability so far has been faultless.

Quality of interior plastics is excellent.

Car feels substantial when you drive it.

The car is extremely comfortable, with loads of kit for the cash and great seats.

Much quicker than a similarly powered Golf/Focus.

Electrics sometimes are a bit scary.

Best looking car in its class by miles and miles.

Lovely ride.

Faults:

Had to replace battery.

General Comments:

I really like the styling, it looks so good. Quite sporty in apperaance, despite being a station wagon/estate.

Interior feels good, great to touch and feels like it is of higher quality than in my previous Laguna Ph2 from 1999. Colours are easy on the eye, controls and ergonomics great.

Equipment level is high, with automatic wipers, cruise control and speed limiter, climate control, electric windows in all doors. Standard stereo seemed a bit poor at first, but when I added the Renault original iPod adapter, the sound that comes from my iPod through the factory stereo is simply great.

Seats are well formed and driver's seat has an adjustable lumbar support. They are not as soft as french seats used to be, they feel comfortable when on a long journey.

Riding and handling is great, it runs smooth and I like the relaxed and stable steering. It's not so communicative, but then this is not a sports car. I enjoy driving this car, I feel relaxed.

The 1.6 16V petrol engine has enough power for fast overtakes, but I am a bit disappointed with sound levels. It revs 3000 rpm in 100 km/h and that is a bit high, so the motor is a bit noisy - but road and tyre noise is very low and the car feels very solid built together.

Interior space is average for this size of car, neither better nor worse than the competition (Focus, Stilo MW, Opel Astra).

I like this car, but I would welcome a 6th gear or a higher gearing to the 5th - to lower the engine sound at motorway speed.

Faults:

Airbag faulty light flashing only months after purchasing.

Rattles in passenger door and hatch lock.

Electric window broke earlier this year.

Recalled by Renault earlier this year due to possible brake malfunction, all clear given.

Currently in garage with engine management light flashing and loss of performance.

General Comments:

A good car to drive and comfortable.

Dealer support poor (two local dealerships closed within 18 months)

Bought a nearly new car to avoid costly and time consuming faults, but buying this one has been a mistake.

Faults:

Window dropped on first day when locking the car. Upgrades have been done to window electrics, but rear window which is never used drops by itself. Renault deny faults are inherent with car. We believe they are inherent as many upgrades have taken place. The windows drop for no reason and costs £350 per window to fix. Renault will not accept bad design and bad quality control as cuse to failures.

The same problem of window failure is common on Clios. The regulatour just fails and snaps through bad design. We are on our third drivers window regulator.

Anyone else suffered with window regulator failure.

General Comments:

Good car apart from French electrics.