for the love of god talk me out of buying a Laguna,

The engine is pretty good :-p

Horrendous on fuel.

It'll probably be an auto as well... that's right, a *Renault* auto.

Avoid.

-- JackH

just like the fact there dirt cheap pack 200 bhp and if i get bored i can throw some 19's on cut the springs and take the seats out and call it a touring car rep.

SWMBO has commandeered the LCR as a daily driver (sayts its wasted sitting outside the house all day) and has proceeded give it death at every opportunity. expect a post shortly how to extract a hedge/ditch shaped dent from a funny looking golf post

Another minus - it's not an auto though being french that's probably a plus.

oh no, we aint be having any of that magical gearbox malarkey here m'lad,

it would be one of the 5 manual V6's currently on the trader :)

Yeah, get a 406 V6 instead, they're nicer to drive and Übersubtle...

I thought the engine was *fantastic*

I've had a couple of Lagunas, including a V6 manual. Bought it as it was dirt cheap. Wanted to hate it, but it was actually pretty great for the cash - good for wafting around in, but toe the loud pedal and it was perfectly capable of turning into a nutter-mobile. Averaged about 20mpg on short trips, did 30 on the motorway. Only real downside was that I don't think there was an LSD on it, as the front wheels were certainly "active".

Oh, and neither of them ever put a foot wrong, reliability-wise.

French (WOCAB), Fragile, French (WOCAB), FWD, French (WOCAB), Renault hence French (WOCAB).

They're not unusual. Yes, the V6 bit is, but the Laguna isn't.

My preference in the V6 big cars is a Xantia or C5. More unusual* and certainly in the C5, just as powerful. The Xantia is only ~195 PS as I remember.

All that french fragility, but no benefits of either high performance or fuel economy.

Thats the earlier incarnation of that engine and is to be avoided. Less power, less torque, and less mpg.

Yes; it'll be very similar to the 406 in this respect.

Yeah: R U N !!

Tom De Moor

Ok. Don't buy the Laguna.

I've done all I can here my personal experience with a Laguna spontaneously combusting are already on the net somewhere.