• Spacious interior
• Rear seats slide back and forth
• Boot smaller on the hybrid

How much space is there?

The Renault Captur is one of the more spacious cars in its class, and the front seats have been sculpted to free up some extra space for longer legs in the rear. Rear seat space is pretty good anyway, as long as you don’t have the rear bench slid forwards. 

However, you’ll only be sliding it forwards to free up some extra boot space anyway, so buyers can pick and choose what their priorities are. It’s just a shame you can’t slide individual seats. 

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Should you have a couple of lanky friends or family members that you often cart about, we’d recommend taking a look at the Skoda Kamiq. It thrashes everything in the class for both head and leg room, giving even tall folk room to stretch out a little. 

Boot space and storage

With the seats slid back, there’s 444 litres of room on offer with the boot floor in its lowest setting (395 with it set higher). If you slide the seats forwards, total space is an impressive 536 litres, while the seat backs split 60:40 to free up some more space – up to 1,334 litres.

Just remember there’s basically no rear legroom when the seats are slid forwards, while hybrid versions of the Captur have a noticeably smaller boot as they lose the underfloor storage. It makes the regular E-Tech hybrid merely average for the class.

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There’s a good amount of extra storage throughout, with big door bins, a central armrest and cupholders between the seats. Beneath the climate controls, there’s an area to keep your mobile phone, while automatic cars come with a slightly different centre console design with an area beneath the gearlever for extra bits and pieces.

Is it easy to park? 

The Captur is pretty compact and all models as part of the 2024 facelift now get rear parking sensors and a reversing camera to help in tight spots. While the reversing cameras are handy to have, the resolution is quite poor by modern standards.

You could consider a top-spec model with its front camera as that includes a hands-free parking system that controls the steering to get you into tight spaces, you just need to control the acceleration and braking. 

Safety

• Suite of driver assistance tech as standard
• Five stars from Euro NCAP
• Renault has a good reputation for safety

The Captur scored a full five-star rating when tested by Euro NCAP. All Capturs get lane-departure warning with lane-keep assist, autonomous emergency braking and traffic sign recognition, as well as useful features like cruise control and LED headlights.

Top-spec Esprit Alpine models come with adaptive cruise control with speed limiter, while also bringing useful blind-spot monitoring and a 360-degree camera system, which helps to make the Captur a very easy car to drive, particularly on motorways and around the city. 

Renault also fits its cars with something known as a ‘My Safety’ switch, which lets you save a profile of turning off various driver technology features such as lane keep assist and speed sign recognition without having to flick through various sub-menus each time you start the car.