Renault Laguna II

The Renault Laguna II, type G, is the second generation of the mid-size Laguna from Renault, built from March 2001 to September 2007 at up to 1,600 cars a day. It was planned and designed at the Renault Technocentre near Paris under the development code X74, took 42 months to develop and cost one billion euros. Its feature is a silver-grey strip between bonnet and grille, called the nose plaster, which is painted the same silver whatever the body colour. It was the first car to reach five stars, 33 points or 97 percent, in the Euro NCAP crash test, and the first to replace the key with a chip card, offered as Keyless Drive and Keyless Entry and Drive. Engines were 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol units of 107 and 120 horsepower, later 115, a 2.0 litre 16-valve of 135 horsepower and the 2.2 dCi, which proved not very durable. From 2002 the saloon Vel Satis and the van Espace IV were built on its basis at the Sandouville plant in France.