For those drivers with 2.4 children and who refuse to be brow-beaten into buying an MPV, there remains the estate car. And while some people will see estates as about as cool as stonewashed jeans, companies like Renault and Vauxhall are pushing their new estates as ‘sport tourers’.
There’s much more to the Megane than that, but we’ll grant you that storage, stowage and a network of nooks and crannies are likely to be high on the list of any of the Sport Tourer’s potential customers.
On that alone this car has much to recommend it with a load length of over two and a half metres with the front seat folded - albeit not entirely flat - and 1600 litres of space with the rear sets folded. Remember, this is based on a family hatch.
It’s fairly easy on the eye, especially in comparison to your average bloated MPV. The roof tapers dramatically to the rear and our 2.0-litre dCi 160 came in Dynamique trim, with a sports kit that boasts front spoilers and extended sills and 16-inch alloy wheels.
Inside, our test car was a sombre vision of black cloth, black rubber dashboard and black switchgear offset by just a small swathe of lovely carbon-effect plastic metal. But if you want to read more about this model, I suggest you to get it from Stephen Worthy
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