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Renault Scenic
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I managed to rent a Scenic EV with Esprit Alpine Trim at Brussels airport for 5 days and drove it across Belgium and Germany, roughly about 1500 km. The car is spacious. We were 5: 2 adults, 2 teen and one 8 years old with booster and we didn't feel crammed. The boot is large and because my family does not travel light we managed to squeeze in 2 large suitcases, 4 small and some backpacks, all without obstructing the central rear-view mirror. It is one of the deepest trunks I have seen in EVs. The car feels very well build and felt smoother than the model Y. A bit noisier but that can be subjective. Absolutely no issue with charging, just to note that the guys from rental gave us single phase cable, so we couldn't take advantage of the 22kW AC charging this car claims to have. That was not an issue as the hotel had a bank of chargers and I was charging overningt. The charging port is located on right side above the front wheel, which is nice when using the SuC. The software is Android Auto based but I found it buggy. Few times on autobahn the navigation would disappear which at 150km/h is not the best thing to happen. I liked the interior the portrait screen maybe not so friendly with my varifocal specs but very well build overall. Car greets you with some J M Jarre tune when entering, led strips with customizable colors, lots of buttons for those who like them. The gripe I have is the fact that on the right side of the driving wheel it has 3 levers
As seen in the picture above, the top one is gear shifter, middle wipers control and bottom media control. Probably you get used with their relative position but the number of times I started the wipers instead of reversing was hilarious. I liked the adaptive cruise control, it felt refined with very smooth actions in comparison with Tesla which I normally drive at home. You'd feel safe when the car was in this mode, unlike with Tesla which is like a teen spirit. I DC charged only once at the SuC before returning the car, which was my first experience as non Tesla. Very nice and responsive. The charging speed was pretty poor in comparison with what I'm used, especially on the higher-ish SoC. The efficiency of the car was 19kWh/100km which I suppose is on the same level with many of its competitors. Range is the least important to me but it was 500km+, with GOM displaying once 588 km at full. The GOM would have a setting to show a min (for driving on the motorway) and a max (for driving in the city), along with some predicted range based on your driving.
I had to dig on the Irish Renault website and found a suggested price of 49,895. A lot of money for a lot of car. I must say I like it. I'm not in the market I'll be driving my Teslas for a good wile now but bar few niggles with software and charging speed I think this is a very good family car.
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Well since the other thread for the Scenic is not working I decided to start a new one. Hopefully the mods can fix the old one and join this to it when they do.
So the Renault Scenic has been voted Best Irish medium SUV 2025
and Irish car of the year 2025
Both well deserved. Its a fantastic car.
Post edited by liamog onLive long and Prosper
Peace and long life.
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