![]() Superminis normally have around 300 litres with the seats up and less than 1000 litres with them down, so you can see what a step up the Captur is. The Captur’s boot is big – as large as 455 litres with the seats up, extending to 1235 litres with them folded. There’s certainly more space in there than the larger Renault Megane family hatch: it’s no wonder young families like the Captur so much. There’s loads of headroom and, with the sliding rear bench slid right back, a huge amount of legroom, further aided by lots of foot room beneath the front seats. The back seat is soft and sofa-like, providing great comfort – and more importantly, it’s extremely spacious, much more so than a conventional supermini. In the rear is where the Captur really excels. Deep windows and a large windscreen ensured good visibility, relatively compact dimensions made it easy to manoeuvre and it was generally easy to see why this type of car is so appealing. ![]() Certainly in left-hand drive test cars, we found plentiful adjustability and the seats were comfortable. ![]() The driving position feels a step up from a normal supermini, with a more commanding seating position that feels a lot more confident. Renault Megane 1.6 TCE 205 GT Nav (2016) reviewĬaptur fundamentals have sensibly been left in place.2016 Renault Scenic review: can MPVs be sexy?.The 2017 Renault Zoe electric car does 250 miles on a charge.Prices start from £21,405 for the 1.2 TCe 120 petrol – and Renault expects it to be popular because, so far, buyers have rather taken to posh-trim Capturs. Above this sits Signature X Nav, with a grip-boosting drivetrain, plus the new Signature S Nav, which has heated Nappa leather seats, Bose audio, Android Auto-compatible infotainment system and, outside, more chrome and gloss black. New Captur prices open at £15,355 for the Expression+ model, but most people buy either a Dynamique Nav or Dynamique S Nav. Chuck in new seat trims and LED interior lighting for a fancier-feeling interior: existing Captur owners looking to swap into a new one will in particular notice this. Most significantly, the Clio-look dashboard now has a higher-quality finish with soft-touch plastics and, on top-spec variants, a stitched leather-look surface like you get in Range Rovers and Bentleys. The steering wheel feels nicer, and the gearlever is new. Inside, more has been done to make it nicer to sit in. Choose from three new body colours (Desert Orange, Ocean Blue, Amethyst) and a new metallic grey contrast roof colour. The front skid plate has been toughened up, matched by one at the rear, while tail lamps are also new (they contain a C-shaped LED pattern: C for Captur, said Renault. At the front, there’s a new grille that mimics the larger Kadjar SUV, distinctive C-shaped LED running lights and, on upper-spec models, full LED headlights. Engines and chassis of today’s cars are identical to those of this revised one, due in showrooms from July. After driving it for two hours feeling for any changes, and failing, a Renault boss admitted there weren’t any. Perhaps that’s why Renault flew us out to Copenhagen for the day to drive it, rather than just emailing us some pictures. The small crossover outsells the Clio it’s derived from, which, as it also costs more than the Clio, is great news for margins. The former owes a lot to the Captur’s close-relation to the sweet-handling Renault Clio, while the latter is no doubt down to overly stiff springs designed to tame the car’s top-heavy build in the corners.Renault Capturs are flying out of showrooms. That means a surprisingly-nimble-through-the-bends chassis, coupled with a capable, if slightly firm ride quality. It’s no different to the pre-facelift model. If a car, motorbike or bicycle enters the driver’s blindspot for longer than a second, a warning indicator lights up in the relevant door mirror alerting the driver of the hazard. ![]() Keeping up its enviable car safety record, Renault has also given the updated Captur Blind Spot Warning technology – available from Dynamique S trims only. Puzzlingly, Apple CarPlay compatibility is not available, despite drivers being able to activate the Siri function on paired iPhones via the Captur’s steering wheel-mounted voice command button. Blindspot warning is offered on the Captur for the first time, as is Android Auto – compatible with the top-of-the-range R-Link media system.
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