| 2011 Renault Fluence. Start Up, Engine, and In Depth Tour. Revealed in August 2009, Fluence is based on the Renault/Nissan C platform but it is sized between the compact family saloon C-segment and the upper-medium segment. The Mégane range featured a "three-box" notchback sedan variant until 2008, but this was never a big seller and when, at the end of that year, the Mégane III was introduced, there was no notch-back version. It is the gap in the range left by the removal of this model from the Franco-Spanish assembled Mégane range that the Fluence fills in those markets in the company's western European heartland, such as France, Italy, Belgium and, since August 2010, Germany, where Renault offers it. It is based on the Samsung SM3, which is itself based on the previous Mégane generation, and not the current Mégane. The Samsung branded car was first presented at the Seoul Motor Show in April 2009 and the Renault Badged Fluence went on sale in November 2009. The model has first been offered with two gasoline engines: a 1.6-liter 110 hp (82 kW) and a 2-liter 140 hp (104 kW) that can get an optional CVT. The diesel variant is equipped with a 1.5-liter dCi engine, offered in 85, 90, 105 and 110 hp (82 kW) versions, fitted with Diesel particulate filter, and with the 110 hp (82 kW) version fitted to Renault's new dual clutch transmission, called DCT. |
