Drive Report, Renault Kadjar: Late Bloomer

Renault has renewed its compact SUV Kadjar, which has found since its launch three years ago, more than 450,000 buyers, technically, and a little to the body retouched. In the middle of January 2019, the New 22.490 Euro.

The 4,49-metre-long Renault gets a new front fascia with a larger grille and lots of chrome and new headlights graphics with LED-technology. The wheelbase (2.65 meters) and the boot capacity from a minimum 473 and maximum of 1478 litres remain the same. In the interior is the redesigned centre console and the seven-inch Touchscreen.

For the heading, two new turbo gasoline engine of 1.3 liters of displacement and two turbo-diesel with SCR-Kat. All meet now at last, a standard of Euro-6d-Temp. Better late than never, in September of 2019 you would have become compulsory. With the exception of the Top-Diesels, which can be ordered starting in February, driving all the engine versions with front-wheel drive and can be ordered with a six-speed manual or seven-speed dual-clutch transmission for 1900 euros extra.

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The four-cylinder gasoline engine to purify the exhaust gas with a particulate filter. 140 or 159 HP is the power. In the case of the diesels, the 1.5-litre modified engine is easy, he is now making 116 HP. The 1.7-litre Diesel has 150 HP and the previous 1.6-litre replaced the unit with 130 HP. The standard consumption of the petrol engines between 5.6 and 5.9 liters, for the small Diesel 4.4-Liter, are listed. The first sample was taken on trips with the 159-horsepower gasoline engine with dual-clutch (29 590 Euro). Here, there is a maximum torque of 260 Newton-metres at 1,750 rpm.

The sprint from zero to 100 km/h is done in 9.3 seconds, the top 210 km/h. Positive the front seats, which are not only comfortable and ample lateral support, but now, with extendable thigh support are equipped to provide are noticed.