NEW KANGOO EXPRESS:
COMFORTABLE, PRACTICAL AND VERSATILE TO MEET
THE NEEDS OF PROFESSIONALS
Kangoo Express has had a radical impact on the approach of professional users to their vehicle and more than 1,300,000 owners have been won over by its features since 1997. Today, New Kangoo Express stands out as even more practical and comfortable, and goes one step further to meet the needs of its users. The newcomer is the fruit of an in-depth reappraisal of the model and, in the realms of design, comfort, practicality and environmental-friendliness, makes a significant contribution when it comes to providing professionals with a comfortable, economical and reliable van.
New Kangoo Express's design is modern and expressive and notably features a short, robust front that provides a spacious cabin and a large, practical cargo area. Meanwhile, the forward-positioned, panoramic, MPV-style windscreen ensures a brightly-lit cabin.
Inside, Renault has placed the accent on space, comfort and practicality thanks an array of features and functions that are unprecedented in this segment. The high seating position ensures a broad view of the road and combines with the dashboard-mounted gearshift lever to deliver a standard of driving comfort on a par with that of a passenger car.
New Kangoo Express is equipped with several practical stowage solutions, including dashboard stowage for an A4 document, an overhead parcel shelf and a large, 15-litre lidded glovebox (depending on version). Multimedia and Bluetooth connectivity means that New Kangoo Express also doubles easily as a travelling office.
New Kangoo Express' length of 4.21m frees up an optimized cargo carrying capacity of between 3 and 3.60 cubic metres, while its interior width (1.21m between wheel arches) now makes it possible to take a standard Euro pallet. Hinged, asymmetrical rear doors and the sliding side door (according to version) facilitate access to the cargo area.
New Kangoo Express adapts to meet the needs of all professional uses. This versatility extends to the possibility of folding the passenger seat (optional) to extend carrying capacity to 3.50 cubic metres. Moreover, the design of New Kangoo Express enables a long list of specific conversions (emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles, controlled-temperature transport, pick-ups, etc) to be carried out thanks to the numerous specialist partnerships that have been put into place.
New Kangoo Express also places the accent on performance and comes with a choice of economical, environmentally-friendly powerplants that are inexpensive to service. The range includes three diesel powerplants based on the 1.5 dCi block and available in three power outputs (70hp, 85hp and 105hp), plus two petrol engines (1.6 8V 90hp and 1.6 16V 105hp). Powered by the 85hp version of the diesel engine, New Kangoo Express returns combined cycle fuel consumption of 5.2 litres/100km, equivalent to CO2 emissions of just 137g/km. Indeed, the first two versions of the 1.5 dCi both emit less than 140g of CO2/km, making them eligible for the Renault eco² appellation, while the most powerful version can be equipped with a particulate filter.
New Kangoo Express is based on the same running gear as that of Scénic – a model long been acclaimed for its dynamic performance, comfort and safety – and consequently delivers a level of performance unprecedented on the LCV market.
Its wheelbase dimension of 2.70m ensures balanced, reassuring handling. Depending on version and market, New Kangoo Express is equipped, too, with driver aids more commonly associated with the world of passenger cars (cruise control/speed limiter, rear parking proximity sensor, automatic headlamp and windscreen wiper activation).
Its active and passive safety equipment surpasses the norm for an LCV and is on a par with that of a family saloon. Features include latest-generation ABS, plus MSR engine torque overrun regulation and Emergency Brake Assist (EBA). New Kangoo Express can also be ordered with ESP, CSV understeer control and ASR traction control.
New Kangoo Express boasts a market-leading stopping distance of 40 metres (measured after 10 consecutive stops from 100kph to standstill).
The cabin of New Kangoo Express has been designed to ensure leading safety for all occupants, including a driver's side airbag, seatbelt pretensioners with load limiters and an anti-submarining hump in the seats (except folding front passenger seat). A passenger side airbag and driver's side thorax airbags are also optionally available.
Despite its long list of new features, the New Kangoo Express range will sell at prices very similar to those of the current Kangoo range.
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