RENAULT MAY HAVE WRITTEN
the rule book on smaller, more
affordable MPVs (not to mention
totally dominating – at least for a while – the
sector it helped to create), but it didn’t take
other car makers long to cotton on to a
patently imaginative idea. Since the Scenic
arrived on the scene, rivals have flooded
into (and out of) showrooms thick and fast.
Not least among these are the roomy
Citroën Picasso, Vauxhall’s seven-seat
Zafira and the controversially styled,
six-berth Fiat Multipla, the last two stumping
up a seat or two more for the school run
than the Scenic’s sum-total of five.
Renault hasn’t rested on its laurels,
though. Of late, the ever-popular
people-carrier has undergone a Phase II
facelift, together with a recent expansion
and renaming of trim and equipment levels.
Along the way, Renault has also quietly
slipped a 1.8-litre version into the Scenic’s
multi-valve petrol engine line-up, which
now spans from a 95bhp, 1.4-litre “starter”
to the brisk 140bhp two-litre. This is
supported by a pair of 1.9 turbo-diesels,
the newest being the 105bhp,
common-rail dCi.
The 1.6 16-valver we sample here
serves up a 15bhp boost over its
eight-valve predecessor. But despite this
and modest overall gearing, acceleration
remains more adequate than ample
compared with this engine’s livelier, more
frugal performance in the lighter, less lofty
Megane hatchback.
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