Category: Large Family 
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Quiet, smooth engines, good interior design and materials.
Not dynamically the best, quality and reliability concerns, short service intervals for 130bhp diesel.
Average car in a competitive class - good at most things, but outstanding at none.
Since its launch in 2001, Renault's Laguna has been an average car in the competitive upper-medium class, good at a few things but outstanding at nothing save occupant safety, and that's an area where rivals have since caught up.
Dominated by fleet sales and with demanding users, large family cars like the Laguna, Vectra, Mondeo and Passat are some of the biggest-selling cars in Europe, but the market has come under increasing pressure recently, as customers opt for MPVs, sports coupes or off-roaders instead, or downsize into increasingly refined and comfortable lower-medium cars like the Golf, Megane and Focus.
For 2005, Renault has extensively revised the Laguna, making alterations to the design, suspension, interior and some mechanicals - there are two new engines - and hopefully lifted the quality and reliability, too, an area where the previous Laguna came in for criticism from consumers. The revisions certainly make the Laguna more competitive, but it's still not a class leader.
