Renault, with impecccable connections made over a quarter century of sponsorship, managed to wriggle under the velvet ropes of last week’s Cannes Film Festival (which was followed by the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix) to unveil its new four-seat Laguna coupe, previewed as a ‘concept’ at the Frankfurt motor show last year.

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The coupe gets the more sporty hatchback versions’ ‘Active Drive’ chassis and also launches two new V6 engines – the 235hp (173kW) diesel dCi and 3.5-litre, 240hp (175kW) petrol. Both share the AJ0 automatic six-speed automatic transmission. The other four cylinder engines are from the Laguna hatch/wagon line launched earlier.


Last Saturday, (24 May) Renault president Carlos Ghosn drove the new coupe to the film festival. It makes its motor show debut at Paris next October and goes on sale mid-month.


Renault is, in fact, no stranger to the Cannes event.


“The [reveal] was a fitting way for [us] to celebrate the 25th anniversary of [our] exclusive partnership with the famous film festival,” the automaker said in a statement.

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In another publicity coup, it arranged for ING Renault F1 Team test drivers Lucas di Grassi and Romain Grosjean to drive two of the new coupes for several laps of Monaco’s legendary F1 circuit ahead of the race.


Renault said the Laguna Coupe bears a close resemblance to the concept shown at Frankfurt. It’s 4.64m long on a 2.69m wheelbase, 1.83m high and 1.4m tall – with nicely balanced proportions and distinctive body character and crease lines – and comes with 17- or 18-inch alloy wheels as standard.


Slim lights at the rear are distinctive and, at night, the direction indicators form a halo that picks out the contours of the thin red LEDs.


Coinciding with the Cannes and Monaco publicity, Renault has also launched a special website for the coupe, developed in an “exclusive European association” with Microsoft. This uses an innovation known as Deep Zoom technology, and is designed to evolve constantly with the latest content, Renault said.