![]() ![]() ![]() There is a good amount of space in the boot, and folding down the rear seats would provide quite a bit of extra room for those bigger purchases, just like buyers of these sorts of vehicles are looking for.īut if you care about driving, this is where the benefits of the Captur come to an end. So if your toddler decides to deposit his lunch on the back seat, simply remove the cover, wash, and refasten it. Keeping with its practical focus, one of the neat features of the Captur is removable seat covers, fastened with zippers. Kids will be comfortable in the back, although adults would be find it rather confining, especially if the front-seat passengers are tall. ![]() Materials feel pretty good overall, and nothing rattles or sounds cheap when you’re bouncing around on bumpy roads. For my height, however, I needed to put the seat all the way down to give myself enough headroom. The front seats are supportive and can be adjusted in a number of ways. Whilst the steering wheel is comfortable to hold on to and well-positioned, again, for a taller person, the gear stick feels a bit out of reach. Tachometer, speedometer, and fuel gauge are clear and easy to read, but could be positioned a bit better if you’re over six feet tall, you will have a bit of trouble seeing them. Controls are well laid out, and the touchscreen infotainment unit is easy to use, though a bit laggy. The cabin of the Captur is not an unpleasant place to be. Clearly Enterprise, who I hired the car from, wasn’t concerned about style, however, as this one was optioned with one of the worst exterior colours I’ve ever seen on a car, and a fairly plain charcoal-coloured interior. Indeed, Renault plays up the range of customisable options in its marketing scheme, offering a large array of colour combinations, both inside and out, to increase the chance that yours will be unique to the one down the road. It’s the sort of thing you would want to take kids to school and football practice and when you need to get some bigger things from IKEA, as it is a relatively comfortable and stylish way to get those tasks done. Pitched as an ‘urban crossover’, you get small car underpinnings and efficiency with more usable interior space. ![]() But I suppose that if you’re in the market purely for practicality, the appeal of something like the Captur (and it’s sister car, the Nissan Juke), can make sense. I seem to hold a minority view, however, as crossovers sell by the boatload. So being handed the keys to the Captur this weekend was a bit of a disappointment (‘keys’ being a figurative term – the Captur has a card that locks and unlocks the vehicle based on your proximity, and operates with a start/stop button). Adding height and weight to an otherwise good car – in this case, the Renault Clio – does not make any sense to me, not least because it is guaranteed to reduce its drivability. I confess to being predisposed to review a car more negatively simply because it is a crossover, which is a segment I just do not understand. ![]()
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