Renault Fluence: Is This The Luxury Card You Need?
Manufactured by a French automaker, Fluence is a family car in the small car segment manufactured by Renault. This car is manufactured for Latin American market at the Santa Isabel Factory, Cordoba, Argentina and the Oyk-Renault plant, Bursa, Turkey. Samsung Motors Factory, Busan, South Korea is used for the manufacture of this car for the market of Australia.
Engine Specifications
Initially, the model was launched with 2 variants of gasoline engines, one is a 1.6-liter engine with 100hp power and the second one is a 2-liter engine producing 140hp power, for which CVT is optional.
The diesel variant of this car contains a dCi engine of 1.5-liter capacity is fitted with a filter for diesel particulate and is available in different versions producing 85/90/105/110 hp power. There is another variant of the 110hp engine, which contains the DCT (Dual clutch transmission) technology from Renault.
Fluence GT, a sports version offered by the company in Brasil, contains a 2.0-liter engine producing 180hp power. This variant is known as the Renault TCe 180 and comes with a manual 6-speed transmission gearbox.
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Technical Characteristics of Renault Fluence
Technical Characteristics of 2009 Renault Fluence 1.6 16v Automatic produced by Renault (FR).
Body Type | Saloon (sedan) 4 doors / 5 seats |
Weight | 1258 Kg |
Length | 4618 mm |
Height | 1479 mm |
Wheelbase | 2702 mm |
Front Track | 1541 mm |
Rear Track | 1563 mm |
Ground Clearance | n/a |
Fuel Capacity | 60 liters |
Engine location | front |
Engine alignment | transverse |
Drive Wheels | Front wheel drive |
Steering | rack & pinion PAS |
Fuel Supply System | MPFI |
Max Power | 105HP (78 kW) @ 6000 rpm |
Max Torque | 145Nm @ 4250 rpm |
CO2 Emissions | 180 g/Km |
Engine Coolant | water |
Displacement | 1598 cc |
Bore | 80 mm |
Stroke | 81 mm |
Cam Design | DOHC - Double Overhead Camshaft (per bank) |
Cylinders | 4 INLINE |
Valves per cylinder | 4 |
Total Valves | 16 |
Compression Ratio | 9.7:1 |
Aspiration | Normal |
Front Brakes | VeDi |
Rear Brakes | Dr-S-ABS |
Standard Wheels | 6?J x 15 / 6?J x 15 |
Standard Tyres | 205/65 R 15 94H / 205/65 R 15 94H |
Suspension Front | n/a |
Suspension Rear | n/a |
Transmission | 4 speed automatic |
Number of gears | 4 |
Acceleration 0-100 Km/h | 13.9 seconds |
Acceleration 80-120 Km/h | n/a |
Top Speed | n/a |
City | 10.6 l/100km |
Road | 5.8 l/100km |
Mixt | 7.5 l/100km |