Renault Megane - getting a company car

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Fri 4 Dec 2015 18:58
Renault Megane - getting a company car - Mr Carrot Cake

I am soon getting a company car, it will be a Renault Megane Estate, 1.5 diesel. Supposedly they are very efficient so the tax will be low. How do people on here rate the Megane these days? You dont see many on the roads, Renault are not as popular as they once were.

Personally I'd have prefered a petrol 1.0 or 1.2 turbo Focus or Seat Leon, but beggars cant be choosers...we dont even get a choice of colour - it's white or white!

Edited by Mr Carrot Cake on 04/12/2015 at 18:59

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Fri 4 Dec 2015 20:03
Renault Megane - getting a company car - RT

Just get it dirty then it won't be white!

It would annoy the hell out of me to be taxed as Benefit In Kind but not have the benefit of any choices - but those days are gone for me.

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Fri 4 Dec 2015 20:29
Renault Megane - getting a company car - Mr Carrot Cake

I agree, it would be nice to get a choice. Even a colour choice would be appreciated!

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Fri 4 Dec 2015 20:37
Renault Megane - getting a company car - Avant

But you can see where the fleet manager is coming from. The Megane is neither a new nor a particularly popular model, and there'll be huge discounts available, especially if he's buying several of them in a job lot.

Either that or it's one that used to be driven by someone who's left the company. You'll find out when you get it if it's new or not.

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Fri 4 Dec 2015 23:03
Renault Megane - getting a company car - focussed

I worked for a company in the late seventies where the MD had a brainwave to save money on company cars. He wanted all travelling staff to have those horrible Volvo 343 rubber band gearbox things with a Renault derived 1.4 engine - because "changing gear wastes fuel" Huh?

So a couple were bought to try.

Obviously nobody -but nobody- wanted them.

After the unfortunate ones who had to drive the things had a few trips to Scotland and back flat out in low gear and a replacement engine or two later he decided that it perhaps wasn't such a good idea.

Just saying.

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Sat 5 Dec 2015 06:09
Renault Megane - getting a company car - Falkirk Bairn

I worked for a company in the late seventies where they downsized from 2000 to 1600 to save money on petrol.

Same car, same weight, same journeys, same drivers ............something like 20 BHP less so they raised the revs and the petrol costs went up! £200 or so saved on the invoice only to be more expensive @ fuel pumps every day.

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Sat 5 Dec 2015 11:05
Renault Megane - getting a company car - artill

In 1994 i was given my first company car, a 3 door Peugeot 306 XND ( the basic non turbo diesel version). i had a choice of any of the non metallic colours but chose white. For some reason having given us no choice about anything the company then paid for it to have a hole cut in the roof and one of those nasty pop up sun roofs fitted. It was my first and only diesel, got driven flat out for 42,000 miles before i left. I still wouldnt have another diesel, but as it was unbreakable it gave me great regard for Peugeots. I still have a 1994 Peugeot (a 405 MI16) which is also unbreakable, but this one i really like.

I dont understand the mentality of forcing a car on someone that they dont want, the chances are it wont be looked after. Daft

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Sat 5 Dec 2015 15:52
Renault Megane - getting a company car - 72 dudes

I dont understand the mentality of forcing a car on someone that they dont want, the chances are it wont be looked after. Daft

Agreed. Sadly usually also a reflection of how much the company values its employees.

I joined a company in 1989 in an office based role and had the choice of a Cavalier 1.6L or Sierra 1.8L in solid colours. I went for the Cavalier as it was new to the market and looked very futuristic!!

What really pee'd me off though is that it got borrowed by all sorts of employees, like a pool car, yet I was paying the extra tax. When I complained, I was told it was a "company" car. I left after 2 years and the company went bust 2 years later.

The current Megane is an OK car and the 1.5 dCi is highly regarded, so at least your tax costs will be kept low. If it's a new car, have you thought of offering to pay for a metallic colour yourself? By the sound of it, your company won't have the flexibility or indeed the motivation to allow this.

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Sat 5 Dec 2015 16:04
Renault Megane - getting a company car - bazza

I did 100,000 trouble free miles in a Megane 1.6, one of the most comfortable cars I've had. The 1.5dci is a very nice engine, and you don't have to worry about any of the modern diesel foibles that can cost. And it's more interesting than all the Audi/BMW fodder that seems to be in every other drive on PCP these days.

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