Hooooray.... Laguna has arrived and I now have my hands on her svelt curves.....
Black mark for delivering dealer tho, 17" low profile alloys are streaked in transport gunge...junior will be earning his pocket money this w/e
So its adieu to Scenic, she has done me well, look after her whoever gets her.
Lets hope I dont sit on the keycard in my pocket!
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I always thought of a Laguna as female?
With or without phone kit?
Does the "athermic heat reflecting windshield that reflects all electromagnetic signals" let light thro or do you have to drive with your head sticking out of the drivers window? :)
pmh (was peter)
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Smart lookin' motor - not a doubt about it. Friend has a diesel estate version, which is certainly comfy for riding around in. However, I give it about three weeks before the first warning light appears on the dash...
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Smart lookin' motor - not a doubt about it. Friend has a diesel estate version, which is certainly comfy for riding around in. However, I give it about three weeks before the first warning light appears on the dash...
If it does you think i am going to admit it here?
OH NO ITS RAINING ON MY NEW MOTA
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She is, but my schoolboy french is merde.
No phone kit,
Too busy to look thro the window, playing with the toys
Phone seems to work ok.
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Ahhh the toys, toys, toys...
It's true isn't it ? Us boys never really grow up do we ?
As for the French language..
J'espere que la voiture c'est bonne et tous les 'gadgets & gizmos' sont tres, tres solide !
Hope that says what I meant it to BTW :-)
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Ahhh the toys, toys, toys... It's true isn't it ? Us boys never really grow up do we ? As for the French language.. J'espere que la voiture c'est bonne et tous les 'gadgets & gizmos' sont tres, tres solide ! Hope that says what I meant it to BTW :-)
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Yes lets hope they do, tho as i said, if they fail my pride may not let me mention it on these erstwhile tablets of stone
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Enjoy your new car.
The current TV advert makes me smile; is it really worth conning your other half to jump in a fountain while you make off with the keycard?
It would have to be very good indeed to be better than my old Renault 16TX. They don't make 'em like they used to blah blah blah ...
H.
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"It would have to be very good indeed to be better than my old Renault 16TX."
Well said H, we could do with more people like you on the what is the most comfortable car thread ;-)
(Hawkeye = formerly DK? or have I got that wrong?)
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Tres bon, je pense que je vais moi aussi parler français. j'espère que vous êtes content de votre nouvelle Laguna. est-ce que c'est une fille ou un garçon??? moi je pense que c'est un fille!!
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Moi, je ne pense pas qu'il s'agisse d'UN fille ; mais je sais que c'est une erreur d'orthographie qu'a fait Martin !
La famille Renault, je vous souhaite bonne chance avec votre nouvelle bagnole ; j'espère qu'elle durera aussi bien que la mienne, qui reste performante et confortable après 14 ans !
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Moi, je ne pense pas qu'il s'agisse d'UN fille ; mais je sais que c'est une erreur d'orthographie qu'a fait Martin ! La famille Renault, je vous souhaite bonne chance avec votre nouvelle bagnole ; j'espère qu'elle durera aussi bien que la mienne, qui reste performante et confortable après 14 ans !
Well its certainly comfortable, and powerful enough, I dont think our affair will last 14 years tho...........
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Petits criminels. J'espère du fond de mon coeur que M. Blunkett ne va pas decouvrir que vous parlez une langue étrangère en Angleterre. C'est defendu non?
I suppose I should write in Spanish given that I drive a Ka, but that's well beyond me. Lets hope we don't have to write in the language of the people who made our cars .... eeek.
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>>Petits criminels. J'espère du fond de mon coeur que M. Blunkett ne va pas decouvrir que vous parlez une langue étrangère en Angleterre. C'est defendu non?
Perhaps he would throw me in an assylum centre for starting a french thread. Never mind I enjoy a good bonfire.
Right time for a German thread for all the BMdubyas and vorspung durch technique owners? (Vdubya owners exempt as theirs could come from anywhere in the world - they can moan about recent schlechte Bauvorschriften)
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I hope we will be content, we have a 4 year affair ahead of us, and yes I know its a girl and should have been Ma instead of Mon
O level Francais was a looooooong time ago
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Monsieur Le Renault Family,
Apologies for the implied criticism of your French, I am only an expert in Franglais and would have missed the extra e anyway!
It generated a nice bilingual thread tho'. Maybe we should go for a wholly foreign thread at some time in the future, any one with a new Yaris out there? Dont they make them in Poland nowadays?
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pmh (was peter)
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>is it really worth conning your other half to jump in a fountain while you make off with the keycard?
They must have lost the spare key card (and at 70 quid for a new one - thats cause for argument)
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I have also gone against much doom laden advice and ordered a Laguna 1.9dCi Initiale, following a most enjoyable weekend test drive - just waiting for a delivery date (6 weeks or so?) - and I too shall keep my gob firmly shut on here if/when anything goes horribly tits up!
What swung it was the good engine (you were right - no need to get the 2.2), plenty of room, ample toys (I am a kiddie, I admit it!) and, quite importantly given that mars andy has jacked in work for a year or two - the fact that my employer will pay me £75 a month to drive it...
Managed to persuade the lease co to buy it off a local dealer though, so if there are any issues I'll know who to talk to...
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that's 'mrs andy', by the way - I don't live with a gay intergalactic traveller.
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You wont regret it Andy, its every bit as comfortable as I remember, the 1.9dci is real beaut, and the 6 speed box feels like a well oiled switch.
Re the leasing co, you were lucky, a lot of dealers wont work with them. My leasing co forced a 28% discount out of the dealer (according to the paperwork anyway)
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We get a quite extraordinary deal on some makes - Renault, Ford and Vauxhall particularly. This Laguna's £21 grandish, and yet a £3k cheaper audi costs £50 a month more over 4 years, presumably because they don't have to discount so heavily.
I think they're still quite keen to work with us because we buy a lot of cars - the dealer this is coming from sells half a dozen cars a month to us (my firm negotiates the discount, the leasing company manages it, apparently.
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All cars are feminine in French because the French word for car - la voiture - is a feminine noun.
Therefore one would say Ma Laguna est arrivée , ma Rover est arrivée etc.
Matthew Kelly
No, not that one.
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Unless it's un monospace (masculine), so un Berlingo and un Espace. Of course, it would also be mon Astra, because it starts with a vowel even though the car is feminine!
Oh and ostrich is autruche, not to be confused with Austria (Autriche )
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Well, I learned that particular piece of French grammar before MPVs and their ilk were invented, from a French teacher who hadn't been back to France since getting caught up in the Paris riots of '68 and taking a good whacking from the CRS.
Take your point on the models starting with vowels.
Matthew Kelly
No, not that one.
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For all the French pedants
at first pass this title looks wrong but am told it is correct!
I wish I had had this eye for detail when I was trying to learn French at school, I might have managed a better grade!
:)
pmh (was peter)
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And the Toyota MR2 changed its name for the French public ... to MR since you ask.
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Sad, I know, but I was looking back through the discussion board archive and this one caught my eye.
I bought the same car as you a couple of months earlier. 6,000 miles later and so far so good. How's yours doing? Are you going to trust the 18,000-mile oil change interval? Even for the first change?
My last car was an XR2 which I ran from new for 14 years and 220,000 miles with hardly a problem. I a firm believer in frequent oil changes, even in these days of improved oils. Once out of warranty it never saw the inside of a Ford workshop. I am very suspicious of main dealer workshops and although the dealer I bought from was very good for sales I will not be using their servicing facilities to maintain the warranty. Can you, or any other contributors, recommend a Renault garage anywhere?
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Well, its done 2000 miles now and all is well. The build quality seems quite good (went over it with a fine tooth comb). The panel gaps seem consistent, everything under bonnet seems clipped, tied, screwed and bolted where it should, and it has no rattles or squeaks. Engine is still tight, but is not using any oil and is averaging between 43-53mpg. All in all this does not feel like a Vendredi car, so all i can say at this moment is "Merci des ouvriers de Renault"
AS for 18000 miles for its first service - wooo thats too long. If it was my money it would get three oil changes in that time.
AS far as Renault dealers go, the best (of an average bunch it has to be said) in my area is SMC, Wych Hill, Woking. They do find and fix problems (if you prod them in the right place and ignore the "no problem found sir" syndrome), they find bits and spares quickly, dont leave greasy hand prints anywhere, wash and valet the car, and if you book early and ask for it, you get a courtesy car (with no petrol in it). Always forget to phone and tell you its ready tho.
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come on now RF, be honest, are you really sure no little bits have fallen off yet ? Oh... and BTW are the panel gaps consistently good or consistently bad ? :-)
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Honestly? Nope nothing dropped off, No squeaks or rattles, No sniff of a potential gremlin either. Panel gaps? they seems as good as any other car its parked next to, with the exception of the rear hatch where they appear excessive, but even both sides -
and along the bottom.
Having said all this its ECU is probably devising a Gaelic plot as I speak.
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Let's hope not !!!
Honestly, you just can't trust the French can you!
Good luck.
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Ahhh.. the French - They go on strike all the time, smoke camel dung, block our ports, burn our lamb, ban our beef, facilitate the safe passage of asylum seekers to our fair shores and to cap it all, entice us to buy cars which, when they go wrong, could bankrupt a third world economy !
Still you've got to love them haven't you :-)
ps. better not show this to our French student or she'll hit me - she's a feisty young thing !
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Its jealousy. We cant get away with the things they do. At times I would love to ignore offialdom when it doesnt suit me and use it when it does.
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Gaelic?
Jeez - now i AM impressed! LOL!!
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Why would it be hatching a Gaelic plot? I can imagine a Laguns hatching a Gallic plot, but surely a Gaelic plot would be in Welsh?
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Or Irish
Of course i should have said Gallic plot.
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I know I'm sad and pedantic, but these little things are important (like spelling Laguna not Laguns)
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To be totally pedantic Welsh is only connected to Gaelic in that it is a Celtic language and is certainly not Gaelic, I could bore you about P and Q type Celtic languages.
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Hmmm, not much motoring discussion going on here. Where's me edit button?
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