2024 Renault Austral E-Tech Fuel Consumption Test 

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Had mine for 8 months now, absolutely love the car and agree with your comments. Surprised I don’t see as many on the road. Looked at the Sportage and Tuscan but the Austral won hands down just an all round better vehicle, fit, finish, tech and internal environment. Drives beautifully and I have never been in a situation where I wanted or needed more power. Around town it drives mostly in full electric mode, not as much when the temperature is low and with heating on. The only criticism I have is occasionally when switching from electric to the petrol engine, the 3 cylinder engine note is not particularly attractive until the gearbox determines best combination to be in. I understand from my dealer a software update will be forthcoming shortly to further refine this. But this a small criticism on what is an all round brilliant SUV that just puts a smile on my face every time I get behind the wheel. Just absolutely love the car whether driving around town, country roads or motorways.

Just bought a 4 month old E-Tech FHEV Techno Esprit Alpine 5dr Auto Hybrid Estate 1.2 cant wait to pick it up!

To be mentioned that: - the trip computer is not very accurate on Austral. The actual consumption calculated at the gas pump is higher and in average is about 0,4L more than the one displayed by the car. - you went with the ventilation off, which is good for consumption but not really recommended especially on a longer journey. - the engine was probably already warm when started the test, which helped a bit the average consumption. For me, the real combined fuel average for Austral in ~ 5000km is about 6,5-7 L/100km.

Do you think it is possible to make the suspension softer in a Renault authorized service?

Nice result, I had problems with getting below 7 liters 🤔

It's interesting that Arkana have consuption 5.2l in 12C and much more traffic and slow driving and Austral at 18C, more hight speed and much weighest car is with similar consumption- 5.5l. Good result for Austral

do you austral owners find the petrol engine is noisy when ticking over and also the gearbox doesnt seem to change up the gears fast enough causing over revving ?

Yeah but what was the mpg?

Only that "lever" of the gears looks on wrong place and not esthetic one.

All this technology, hybrid motor, electric drive - but still nowhere near the fuel efficiency of a modern diesel engine. Renault Clio, 1.5 dCI, 3,4 LT/100km. They should have invested research and development efforts into cleaner diesel engines instead of banning them.

Nu folosești padelele, probabil ai scădea sub 5

I don't understand why you're saying that this car it's great(,,it's a pretty good car"), when the confort doesn't exists due to bad suspension and low noise isolation? it has a lot of minuses for the big price tag... 1) Full of piano black and cheap plastic; 2) Steering wheel with leather and alcantara leather it's not a great combination, in 2 years this will look awfult, the same thing for the dash, it'll be full of dust... ; 3) Road noise after 70km/h it's really huge, this car it's good only for city driving and that's it, if you're driving it on a highway, the noise cancellation doesn't exist... ; 4) Suspension it's really stiff, you feel every pothole in the cabin. ; 4) 1.2 cyl it's noisy and you can feel it when it's starting due to random shakes, the 1.0 ecoboost from Ford doesn't have this behaviour; 5) Resale value will be really low; 6) A lot of software/HW issues that needs to be solved. I would say that in the 40k euro budget, the Ford Kuga PHEV it's the best option, you can't find another SUV with the specs of this car. I tried to purchase a KIa Sportage PHEV, but it was 48k, and the HEV version was 42k which was a really huge price for what that car was offering... Don't get me wrong, this car looks awesome on the exterior and on the interior with that Google tech, but with the annoying things that I enumerated, it's a big no.