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  • Renault Koleos dCi 175

    May 03, 2008 12:38 PM

    What is it?


    The Koleos is Renault’s first bespoke 4x4. No, the Scenic RX4 doesn’t count because it’s muddy version of the Scenic and not a start from scratch model.


    Why has Renault left it so long? Good question. At the launch press conference a French PR man spouted some baloney about the tortoise and the hare fable, but the truth of it is that Renault eventually saw that the crossover market in Europe is now up to 5 per cent and the line on the graph is rising.


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  • Re: Renault Koleos dCi 175

    May 03, 2008 12:48 PM

    "Lack of low ratio combined with a slight shortage of low down torque limit it’s ultimate ability."

    John, John: please don't do Renault the service of even countenancing the possibility that anyone who buys this sort of needless, irrelevant crate is slightly interested in its offroad ability.  If I became Prime Minister tomorrow and could put every example of any car in the world into the crusher, this would be the first model I dropped in.

  • Re: Renault Koleos dCi 175

    May 10, 2008 12:32 PM

    theoriginalshoe:
    John, John

    Sorry Colin.

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