Renault Kadjar 4x4 (2015-2022) boot space, practicality and safety
- Spacious passenger compartment
- Large, well-shaped boot
- Plenty of storage for odds and ends
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
Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) only features as standard on top-spec GT Line, however.
Notable by its absence is adaptive cruise control, which isn’t even an option.
Euro NCAP rating
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Adult Occupant: | 89% |
Child Occupant: | 81% |
Vulnerable Road User: | 74% |
Safety Assist: | 71% |
Equipment and options
- 3x3 point rear seat belts
- ABS
- Alarm
- Body coloured bumpers
- Cruise control
- Driver`s airbag
- 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
- Audio remote
- Cloth seat trim
- Electric mirrors
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- Alloy wheels
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Partial leather seat trim
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- n/a
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Parking sensors
- Partial leather seat trim
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- n/a
- Cloth seat trim
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Sat Nav
- n/a
- Air conditioning
- Audio remote
- Cloth seat trim
- Electric mirrors
- Front fog lights
- Steel wheels
- Traction control
- n/a
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric driver`s seat
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Heated mirrors
- Heated seats
- Leather seat trim
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- Parking sensors
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Parking sensors
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- Cloth seat trim
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Cloth seat trim
- Front fog lights
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Parking sensors
- Traction control
- Electric mirrors
- Heated mirrors
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Parking sensors
- Partial leather seat trim
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- n/a
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Partial leather seat trim
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Traction control
- Alloy wheels
- Audio remote
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Front fog lights
- Heated mirrors
- Heated seats
- Leather seat trim
- Parking sensors
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- Electric driver`s seat
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Traction control
- Electric mirrors
- Folding rear seats
- Heated mirrors
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Roof rails
- Sat Nav
- n/a
Dimensions
Length | 4449mm - 4489mm |
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Width | 2058mm |
Height | 1607mm |