On Wednesday, a teaser image of the Renault Fluence’s rear end was posted up on Renault Malaysia’s Facebook page, with nothing hinted at save it was “coming your way soon.” Well, the model has now been revealed – TC Euro Cars has introduced the Renault Fluence Black Edition, a more upmarket version of the C-segment sedan.
The variant is based on a Black Metallic version of the Fluence 2.0 16v – which made its local debut last May – and adds on exterior and interior styling cues to differentiate it from the base offering. As its suffix suggests, the car is only available in a single exterior shade.
Exterior elements are made up of a Special Edition bodykit (front splitter, side skirts and rear diffuser), a body-coloured grille and chrome exhaust pipe finisher. Also on, reverse sensors integrated into the rear diffuser and a custom ‘Black Edition’ emblem to identify the variant.
The car rides on the same 17-inch alloys – wrapped with 205/55 rubbers – seen on the standard Fluence, but the units on the BE are done in a snazzier hyper black finish, which is actually closer to gun-metal in tone.
New bits in the interior include full leather seats in a cinnamon brown shade and piano black finishing for a number of inserts and lining – these ‘replace’ the silver-coloured finish on the regular Fluence.
Items include the dashboard lining, air-conditioning vent and gearshift surrounds, steering inserts as well as the front door handle covers. The front speaker grille lining also gets the piano black treatment. The edition also gets front door sill plates.
Otherwise, it’s very much that seen on the regular Fluence – to recap, the 2.0 litre four-cylinder engine it wears is good for 143 hp at 6,000 rpm and 195 Nm of torque at 3,700 rpm, and the mill is paired with an X-Tronic CVT with oil cooler.
Performance numbers remain unchanged – the 0-100 km/h dash is done in a little above 10 seconds, and top speed is 195 km/h, while combined FC is a claimed 7.7 litres per 100 km on the European cycle.
Ditto the standard equipment seen on the Fluence – auto headlamps and wipers, rear air vents, keyless entry and start (Renault hands-free card), cruise control and seven-inch touchscreen with Renault R-Link, navigation and reverse camera. as well as the six airbags, ESP, ASR and rear-seat Isofix that make up the safety kit.
Finally, pricing, and the Fluence Black Edition goes for RM119,888 on-the-road, without insurance, a slight premium of just under five grand over the regular Fluence 2.0.
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Opps not the facelift version.
tis iz hugly…
quite rare to see this car on the road (klang valley), anyway the price its fair i guess…
Exclusive . Do you understand?
The surprise is really no surprise.
Very surprise
So does it have a 6.3 V8 ?
That rim looks like myvi SE2 rim..
its a black edition dumbass
At least this model look way better then the 1st gen !!!
love the interior
the leather colour looks elegance
Good to see, good to test drive… But with RM120k and Renault the brand, only few ppl are buying…
perhaps later got more edition like Red edition, orange edition, blue edition…
The mandarin orange edition
Too expensive for sedan.
No worries. By the year’s end, it will be discounted to RM 95k.
Fair price I must say. Anyone getting this will not need to think hard between the 2 versions.
still refuse to swap the location of start button?
one of the idiosyncrasies of french cars….starting from that pedal scandal of citroens in uk, to peugeot’s funny ridiculous small glove compartments….
lol, today Friday 13th and it’s black Friday…
well, Happy Valentine’s Day guys
At this age, you still care with red. OMG!!!
Im sure u can haggle a few thousands off d price and get the excellent after sales service,
Of course with so few around, you are looking at expensive spare parts ( except d nissan sourced engine n gearbox) and depreciation…
Anyway, its a good buy i think…
I’d dump out the black edition label though.
Love the interior colour combination, looks pretty nice.
send back to france ,they also no want :D
Whoever tired with sushi car and kimchi car now can try croissant car.
too bad, sorry to disappoint you, Fluence is still a kimchi car
That is not true. It is made in Korea, but apart from that it is a European car. Based on the Megane. The only thing else that is Korean is the ugly front end.
Fortunately the black color hides that…
This car is dump in other country,so they throw it to malaysia.And also now is CNY ,so if they want to launch in CNY then must be red edition not black edition.
Here is more idea for Renault…for free
CNY, red edition
Christmas, white edition
Hari Raya, green edition
Deepavali, blue edition
Merdeka, jalur gemilang edition
Year end, gold edition
You’re welcome, Renault.
At a glance, I thought I read
Renault FUNERAL -Black Edition
hahahahah
OMG…With this pricing and good spec,is better than any C-segment and D segment Jap cars loh…
As far as I can see, the Fluence isn’t a bad car, it’s just soooo…… average. Put it next to the Megane or Clio and it’ll blend right into the background.
Malaysian Chinese are big fans of the Japanese anyway. Wouldn’t buy anything else. Unlike the Mainland Chinese, who can still remember the massacres.
As if black colour has any effect for CNY.
Launching this black edition for CNY.
everybody can expect Bad Goat Year ahead for Renault Malaysia.
burrying themselves with bad luck.
Man… BE edition shud be awesome under the hood.. make it 150hp++
Ibrahim, suggest that you respect the different cultural significances represented in this country. Otherwise, as if Valentine’s Day might not also carry any negative significance for Muslims?
guys.be fair instead talk nonsense. If they launched red edition also u all will still talk nonsense. Its an auto blog where we all should talk when we know about the car but we all talk like a kid.
i drive a nissan teana v6 also have problems so shall i simply say its a bad car? Nope.
They didnt say its cny edition and i see them trying to improve so whats wrong with that? There r so many choices in this market so each brand has their own market segment n so far renault brought good cars n awesome after sales service package although hoping that their on ground action is as good as their promises
If they had launched a red edition, then we would say that at least Reanults’s marketing Director is smart and is relevant to the current CNY season. So I guess these guys are not simply talking nonsense just for the sake of talking nonsense. It’s actually quite relevant. Sam, you must be quite free throwing comments judging how people actually perceive about the launch of the black edition during this happy CNY period.