Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 10:17
Greybeard - Well despite wearing a Renault badge, the Koleos is actually based on the Nissan X-Trail and uses all the X-Trail mechanicals.
Nissan and Renault have been sleeping together for years, so I guess you'd have to expect some bastard offspring from the mating.
To add to the confusion, it's built in South Korea, anyway - making it truly a global vehicle.
To the Koleos' credit, it's reported as being a reasonably satisfactory vehicle, with none of the European design or maintenance problems that comes as standard with most European products - particularly when they're built for Europe and not Australia.
In motoring reviews, the Koleos' off-road ability is quite satisfactory, but it's been noted the OEM tyres are less than satisfactory in rough going.
The drivetrain is noted as being reliable, but the CVT is described as being sluggish, and behind the 8-ball as regards crisp performance.
Maybe jacnden could make up a global name badge for their Koleos, something like NiReKo, to create interest, and avoid the viewers recoil, from the blatant Renault logo?
A mate has just bought a (used) Renault tandem drive prime mover, it's got to be the ugliest thing I've ever laid eyes on. I think he only bought it, because he got it cheap.
Cheers, Ron.
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