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The interior of the Sport Tourer is familiar Megane territory, with plenty of quality-feel soft-touch materials, aluminium door handles and ergonomically sited controls and switches. The seating position for taller front seat passengers still feels too high, though, and there is no seat height adjustment (unless you're the driver).
There's better news in the back, though, as that extra wheelbase length has freed up a quite generous 230mm of knee room. Renault says that's best in class - we stuck a six-foot-plus passenger behind an equally tall driver and they both head plenty of legroom. Headroom is equally generous.
The familiar Megane suspension layout - MacPherson struts at the front and torsion beam at the back - has been adapted for the Tourer and Saloon. We drove the Tourer back to back with the new Megane Coupe Cabriolet and, ironically, found the estate Megane much more fun to drive. It's reasonably stiffly damped, so the cornering attitude is flatter and body control over dips and crests is first rate. Performance from the 1.9 dCi was also brisk and responsive.
But while Renault is making loud claims about its spaciousness, the Sport Tourer's steeply (stylishly) raked rear hatch means that the load bay is never going to accommodate large, awkward loads.
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