Vehicle details
Renault Austral E-Tech FHEV Techno Esprit Alpine 5dr Auto Hybrid Estate, , The Austral is a medium-sized SUV with three trim levels but one power system, this being a 1.2-litre petrol hybrid. Although its not a plug-in hybrid (or PHEV in the jargon) the small engine packs a punch, and you get a surprisingly good amount of electric range. Great looking, with Google tech and some nifty storage, it is almost the perfect package, and a huge improvement on the outgoing Kadjar. All versions come with a head-up display, which is amazing. Lane keeping assistance is also standard, which some people like but we find intensely annoying on every single car out there on the basis its constantly correcting your path even when youre perfectly on track. Every owner also gets traffic-sign recognition and emergency braking. Adaptive cruise control, a 360-degree camera that includes a birds-eye view of the car and its surroundings, a blind-spot warning system and another that alerts you to traffic as youre reversing onto a road, plus automatic hands-free parking, are all available.
Vehicle features
- Rubber floor mats
- Heated rear window
- Privacy glass
- Variable intermittent front wash/wipe
- Variable intermittent rear wash/wipe
- Tinted rear windows
- Heated front windscreen
- Front wiper de-icer
- Electric one-touch power front and rear windows
- Automatic headlights and wipers
- ABS
- ESP
- Hill start assist
- Trailer Stability Programme
- Electronic parking brake with auto hold
- Front & rear active emergency brake assist
- Automatic emergency braking system (urban
- city pedestrian and cyclist)
- Emergency brake assist with intersection function
- E-call
- Apple car play and Android auto
- Bluetooth
- OEM internet services
- PAS
- Gear selection indicator
- Rear view camera
- Engine start button
- Eco mode
- Rear cross traffic alert
- Blind spot warning
- Rear cross traffic camera
- Lane change warning
- Lane departure warning
- Automatic high / low beam
- Front
- rear and side parking sensors
- Pedestrian alert