As you’d expect for a car of this size, Renault Kadjar practicality is impressive. There’s more than ample room for four fully grown adults to sit in comfort, while three younger children in the back should pose few problems either.
You get a pair of cupholders in the front and the same in the rear – situated in a folding arm rest between the two outer seats. There’s a total of 30 litres of storage in cubbies dotted around the cabin. Front and rear passengers both benefit from a 12-volt socket too.
The boot measures 472 litres, extending to a maximum of 1,478 litres when the rear seats are folded down flat. That’s more than its Qashqai stablemate, but less than the likes of the Peugeot 3008, SEAT Ateca and Kia Sportage. However, there’s useful underfloor storage and an adjustable boot floor, while it’s easy to expand the load space by folding the rear seats down. This is possible via a simple lever located in the boot.
And the luggage space itself is very versatile. It allows three configurations thanks to high and low floor positions, but it’s split into two boards that can be positioned vertically across the width of the load bay, meaning you’re able to secure smaller items you don’t want flying around when you’re driving.
The Kadjar is slightly longer than Qashqai on which it’s based, but it’s no more difficult to manoeuvre and park. There are parking sensors and/or cameras available on several models to assist with this, while there’s plenty of glass to aid the view out. What you will notice is the strange sound the sensors make, but you’ll get used to it in time.
Safety
Five-star rating from Euro NCAP
Raft of active safety kit available
Surprising lack of adaptive cruise control
Renault Kadjar safety has been assessed by the experts at Euro NCAP’s crash-testing facility as a five-star car; no surprise given the French marque’s record over the past two decades.
At the core of the car you’ve got a strong, rigid body that also doesn’t weigh a huge amount. Standard safety features include ABS, stability and traction control systems, cruise control, a speed limiter, hill-start assist (to prevent rolling backwards on hills), six airbags and a pair of Isofix child seat mounting points on the two outer-most rear seats. There’s also a tyre-pressure monitoring system and a tyre inflation kit, should you get a flat tyre.
Moving up the range, you also get a suite of safety kit including lane-departure warning, traffic sign recognition and automatic high beam adjustment. The highest trims also get Automatic Park Assist, which will guide the car into and out of parallel, perpendicular or angled parking spaces
Notable by its absence is adaptive cruise control, which isn’t even an option.
Basic equipment
The basic equipment list includes equipment that is standard across all versions of the Renault Kadjar.
3x3 point rear seat belts
ABS
Alarm
Body coloured bumpers
Cruise control
Driver`s airbag
Folding rear seats
Front electric windows
Isofix child seat anchor points
PAS
Passenger`s airbag
Rear electric windows
Remote locking
Side airbags
Steering wheel rake adjustment
Steering wheel reach adjustment
Equipment by trim level
To view equipment options for a specific trim level, please select from the following list:
Equipment included on some trim levels
Air conditioning
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Cloth seat trim
Electric driver`s seat
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Heated seats
Height adjustable drivers seat
Leather seat trim
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Steel wheels
Traction control
Dynamique Nav equipment
Dynamique Nav standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Cloth seat trim
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Lumbar support
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Traction control
Dynamique Nav optional equipment
None available
Dynamique S Nav equipment
Dynamique S Nav standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Traction control
Dynamique S Nav optional equipment
None available
Dynamique SE Nav equipment
Dynamique SE Nav standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Traction control
Dynamique SE Nav optional equipment
None available
EQUILIBRE equipment
EQUILIBRE standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Cloth seat trim
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Sat Nav
EQUILIBRE optional equipment
None available
Expression+ equipment
Expression+ standard equipment
Air conditioning
Audio remote
Cloth seat trim
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Steel wheels
Traction control
Expression+ optional equipment
None available
GT Line equipment
GT Line standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric driver`s seat
Electric mirrors
Heated mirrors
Heated seats
Leather seat trim
Lumbar support
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Traction control
GT Line optional equipment
Parking sensors
Iconic equipment
Iconic standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Traction control
Iconic optional equipment
Cloth seat trim
Play equipment
Play standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Cloth seat trim
Front fog lights
Height adjustable drivers seat
Parking sensors
Traction control
Play optional equipment
Electric mirrors
Heated mirrors
S Edition equipment
S Edition standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric mirrors
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Traction control
S Edition optional equipment
None available
Signature Nav equipment
Signature Nav standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Signature Nav optional equipment
Traction control
Signature S Nav equipment
Signature S Nav standard equipment
Alloy wheels
Audio remote
Electric mirrors
Front fog lights
Heated mirrors
Heated seats
Leather seat trim
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Signature S Nav optional equipment
Electric driver`s seat
Height adjustable drivers seat
Traction control
Techno equipment
Techno standard equipment
Electric mirrors
Heated mirrors
Height adjustable drivers seat
Lumbar support
Parking sensors
Partial leather seat trim
Roof rails
Sat Nav
Techno optional equipment
None available
Euro NCAP Rating – 5 stars
The Renault Kadjar was tested by Euro NCAP in 2015 and was awarded a 5 star overall rating.
This overall rating is calculated from the following individual ratings:
Euro NCAP provides motoring consumers with a realistic and independent assessment of the safety performance of some of the most popular cars sold in Europe.
The safety ratings are determined from a series of vehicle tests, designed and carried out by Euro NCAP.
These tests represent, in a simplified way, important real life accident scenarios that could result in injured or killed car occupants or other road users.