GTP Cool Wall: 1994-2001 Renault Laguna

  • Thread starter Thread starter Wiegert
  • 33 comments
  • 2,746 views

1994-2001 Renault Laguna

  • Total voters
    86
  • Poll closed .
Wiegert

Wiegert

Premium
Messages
13,409
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
1994-2001 Renault Laguna nominated by @Liquid

renlaguna_750_500_70.jpg


Body Style: 5-door liftback, 5-door estate
Engines: 1.6L I4, 1.8L I4, 1.9L I4 (diesel), 2.0L I4, 2.2L I4 (diesel), 3.0L V6
Power: 89-140 hp (I4s), 165-190hp (V6s)
Torque: 106 lbs-ft - 197 lbs-ft
Weight: ~2677 lbs / 1214 kg
Transmission: 5-speed manual
Drivetrain: Front-engined, front-wheel drive​

laguna_2.jpg

renault_laguna_a1246194018b2797031_orig.jpg
Renault-Laguna-3.0-1996-9.JPG
1200px-Renault_Laguna_rear_20071015.jpg
Laguna1p1w.jpg
 
It's clearly no Safrane or Peugeot 406 but I still think this is a car of good grace.
 
Better than its successor. And that's about it.
 
V6 keeps it out of Seriously Uncool.

Uncool.
 
Its touring pedigree can't help it in road trim. Meh.
 
You know when you watch your favorite car chase from Ronin, and you wonder "hey what are those rolling boring barricades"? It's these...the best unassuming background car in European action movies ever.

uncool
 
It will get you from A to B and not much else. The definition of meh.
 
Meh. The early ones 1994-1996~ are totally rust buckets. But the following are quite good especially facelift models 1999-2001. Second generation renault laguna was nightmare compared to these.
 
Uncool. Too bland to be anything else.

GTP_Ingram
Not cool, but I still have an urge to buy a dark green 2.0-litre, strip out the interior and pretend I'm Alain Menu on trackdays.
Click to expand...
Aleix Winelist?
 
Uncool but, as it was a great touring car, just scrapes a "meh".
 
Fastcarguy
It will get you from A to B and not much else.
Click to expand...
Yeah, if you're lucky enough to drive one that doesn't break down every so often.

Touring image and a good design are enough for Meh, IMO.
 
I mean, It's perfectly fine transport.

This just screams bland.

Uncool.
 
I always thought these were pretty neat, but what was the last midsized sedan that was actually cool?
 
Had a white 99 model with a whopping 1.6, could fit a big push chair, shopping plus room for the baby and wife, the car that said I had to grow up and be practical, uncool.
 
An RTi with the big spoiler would push meh, the rest are pure drab. Uncool.
 
Generic '90s European car #126. Meh.
 
At least it's not a Megane Saloon.
 
Oh dear, I drove far to many of these damn things when I worked for Renault. It was big inside is about the kindest thing I can say about it.

Liquid
It's clearly no Safrane or Peugeot 406 but I still think this is a car of good grace.
Click to expand...
Oh and not being a Safrane would be another plus point for the Laguna.

The Safrane was a bloody hateful car, with a manual that makes Vauxhall look like they know how to build a pleasant gearbox and an automatic that had a failure rate that was embarrassing (oh and it didn't work either - random downshifts to keep you on your toes) and was so thirsty that I honestly thought one I drove had a fuel leak.

AudiMan2011
V6 keeps it out of Seriously Uncool.

Uncool.
Click to expand...
Nope. Sorry the V6 was rubbish, the pick (and I use that term very loosely) was the 2.0 16V
 
Scaff
Oh dear, I drove far to many of these damn things when I worked for Renault. It was big inside is about the kindest thing I can say about it.


Oh and not being a Safrane would be another plus point for the Laguna.

The Safrane was a bloody hateful car, with a manual that makes Vauxhall look like they know how to build a pleasant gearbox and an automatic that had a failure rate that was embarrassing (oh and it didn't work either - random downshifts to keep you on your toes) and was so thirsty that I honestly thought one I drove had a fuel leak.


Nope. Sorry the V6 was rubbish, the pick (and I use that term very loosely) was the 2.0 16V
Click to expand...

This man knows what's up.
 
Uncool as a road car.
Sub Zero as a Supertouring Car.
 
My mom had one of these, a 98 with a 1.9L diesel. Although bland I quite like them, they're pleasent to look at. That is, if you looked at it, becuase it's just unassuming. But then the gearbox blew up, but not before snapping the clutch cable. That and all the small things that pilled up since. It's a french car above anything else.

Uncool.
 
Best car in TOCA 2 ... but that didn't make it a cool road car. Total meh material.
 
This was a cool race car, but the stock car looks like something I could pay 800 for.
 
Back