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Renault Talisman (Laguna replacement)

  • 12-08-2016 12:36PM
    #1
    Stallingrad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭


    Saw one in Spain flesh recently, very handsome car. I can see why Renault may baulk at bring it here and the UK after the Laguna years, but I could see this stealing sales from Hyundai/Kia and Ford quite easily. Pity we are not getting it.


    New-Renault-Talisman-0004.jpg


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  • #2
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Yeah, there was a recently revived thread about it here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=97959799


  • #3
    robbiew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭robbiew


    I have to say that colour looks well.


  • #4
    GavMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭GavMan


    Considering a Skoda Superb next year and I have to say, If this was available I'd consider it seriously. My old man has had Renaults for the last 15 years or so and his current Fluence has been bullet proof


  • #5
    Stallingrad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭Stallingrad


    Renault finally making desirable cars again. The interiors look really good too.

    Renault-Talisman-dashboard.jpg


  • #6
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,471 ✭✭✭ofcork


    The problem is the whole saloon sector is being overtaken by the suv type motors.


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  • #7
    maddness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭maddness


    ofcork wrote: »
    The problem is the whole saloon sector is being overtaken by the suv type motors.

    Unfortunately you are dead right.


  • #8
    maddness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭maddness


    ofcork wrote: »
    The problem is the whole saloon sector is being overtaken by the suv type motors.

    Unfortunately you are dead right.


  • #9
    maddness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭maddness


    Twice, you're right twice!


  • #10
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,617 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    It's genuinely nice in the flesh. Pity we don't get it


  • #11
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,812 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    ofcork wrote: »
    The problem is the whole saloon sector is being overtaken by the suv type motors.

    Makes me sick to be honest.
    Nothing against suv however I feel they are a bit of a cashcow for the manufacturers - typically charging passat money for what generally are a class behind in terms of quality.


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  • #12
    Casati
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Casati


    Thats a nice looking car, do they have an estate? The Laguna seemed to sell well and seemed to have a good name for reliability so I'd be surprised if this didn't sell reasonably well. Plenty of folk inc myself avoiding the suv route at all costs


  • #13
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    Anyone else see that it looks like a mishmash or a VM Passat, Opel Insignia and Ford Mondeo?


  • #14
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,541 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Casati wrote: »
    Thats a nice looking car, do they have an estate? The Laguna seemed to sell well and seemed to have a good name for reliability so I'd be surprised if this didn't sell reasonably well. Plenty of folk inc myself avoiding the suv route at all costs

    Genuinely not sure if you're being sarcastic here. So awful was the early Laguna 2s reputation for reliability that it effectively killed the name. Which was a pity as the Laguna 3 was actually a really decent reliable car.


  • #15
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,706 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    It's genuinely nice in the flesh. Pity we don't get it

    I get it! :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • #16
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Casati wrote: »
    Thats a nice looking car, do they have an estate? The Laguna seemed to sell well and seemed to have a good name for reliability so I'd be surprised if this didn't sell reasonably well. Plenty of folk inc myself avoiding the suv route at all costs

    Take.a look at the link in the second post, it's so much nicer than the saloon.

    maxresdefault.jpg


  • #17
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,666 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    On looks I love it, I'd need two years on release to buy one based on realiablility concerns.


  • #18
    grogi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭grogi


    mickdw wrote: »
    Makes me sick to be honest.
    Nothing against suv however I feel they are a bit of a cashcow for the manufacturers - typically charging passat money for what generally are a class behind in terms of quality.

    But the clients want to pay that crazy money for bigger wheels...

    Can you blame the supply for taking advantage?


  • #19
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,812 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    grogi wrote: »
    But the clients want to pay that crazy money for bigger wheels...

    Can you blame the supply for taking advantage?

    No. Don't blame them at all. What annoys me is the people buying them thinking they have a large 'jeep' when in reality they have a high 2 wheel drive car with the quality of a mid range hatchback.
    I know a woman who went from buying nearly near 5 series to now buying a new tucson. They must regret that choice surely.


  • #20
    alias no.9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,381 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    mickdw wrote: »
    No. Don't blame them at all. What annoys me is the people buying them thinking they have a large 'jeep' when in reality they have a high 2 wheel drive car with the quality of a mid range hatchback.
    I know a woman who went from buying nearly near 5 series to now buying a new tucson. They must regret that choice surely.

    You're presuming that anything other than the BMW badge was important on the 5 series and anything other than the new jeep (small j) is important with the Tucson


  • #21
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,471 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Its too like the new megane anyway.


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  • #22
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Pity it's not being made in RHD, but the Irish market is just too small to justify the expense of developing it. It looks like a massive improvement on the Laguna, inside and out, and recent Renos are much more reliable than before.


  • #23
    GavMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭GavMan


    captainspeed wrote: »
    Pity it's not being made in RHD, but the Irish market is just too small to justify the expense of developing it. It looks like a massive improvement on the Laguna, inside and out, and recent Renos are much more reliable than before.

    It is being made in RHD. Its sold in India and Australia as far as I know


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