Even as some-one who has a soft spot for Renault generally I have to admit that a Laguna of 2000 to 2004 vintage is a gamble get a good one fine or get a dog and well the forum is full of anti Renault bashing. My own personal experience of Lagunas is good having had three pre 2000 diesels all run to 120,000 miles plus with little or no problems, my first a 1995 2.2 Diesel covered 137,000 miles and apart from one waterpump at 125,000 it was fine oh this was in three years by the way.

At a recent meeting in the company I work for we were discussing car relability of our fleet, mainly Vauxhall ,Ford, Mazda, Land Rover BMW and Audi. Currently most reliable are the Asrtas followed by Focus and Mazda 6. Most troublesome the Audi at 72,000 miles it is a dog currently in the garage with an engine management fault again, this car only works if the rear reversing lights are removed weird or what. The managing directors BMW is certinaly no paragon of reliability eithier he is an avid reader of BMW 3 series forums to help him sort out his problems.

So really all cars can be good or bad the make is irrelevant in my book.