Life capsules: Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Getz, Opel Corsa, Nissan Micra. Test Lada Kalina, Hyundai Getz, Ford Fiesta. In the company with the provincial shorter - it means better
... walked 2001. I was still studying at school. In the freshly authored article - comparative Test Fiesta, Citroen C3 and Volkswagen Polo. There Fordik called the driver itself, and what a kid doesn't dream of being a steep driver ??? So I began to dream of how to grow and buy myself a fiesta and will drive on it. Dreams Come True. And so I got up before choosing a reliable, dynamic, pretty, comfortable, safe car Pepper for $ 15. But Fordica is full of competitors! The same focus 2, which I strongly disliked, in contrast to the old one. And also - Citroen C3, Nissan Micra, Opel Corsa., Skoda Fabia., Honda Jazz, Mitsubishi Lancer., Mitsubishi Colt, Chervolet Aveo, Hyundai Getz., FORD FUSION.... about everyone in order.1. Citroen C3 disappeared almost immediately because big price, inadvertent controllability, dubious reliability and cracked interior design are cheap plastic.
2. Nissan Micra is an interesting option, Japanese, sympathy, reliable and stylish. The too stylish, damn, in him by the mind of themselves. In addition, with my height 187, it is trite closely on front seat!! Yes, and the engine could be more powerful ...
3. Opel Corsa. I confess, I started my weary on the choice of car. It has a comfortable suspension, excellent interior design, sufficient space, there are also good engines. But it goes a little smeared, the drive of the box is not very, the electric, although informative, but too light. In addition, the price turned out to be alone in the desired configuration. Unfortunately rejected the German.
4. Skoda Fabia is the only one of all of all of all, in the front seat of which I settled, without bending my legs in an uncomfortable posture. I had to even drive up to the steering one click. Longitudinal adjustment range - Class! But there are a lot of minuses - the design of Kondovy, both inside and outside, the engines are frankly dead, the price is excellent. Nafig.
5. Honda Jazz. IMHO is the best urban car for a person who does not have special driver ambitions. The magnificent carton-variator with 7 transmissions and control buttons on the steering wheel, silent motor, a huge interior with small dimensions, excellent equipment (ABS, 4 pillows, sityuk, climate ...), magnificent interior design (instruments - optitron !!!) and exterior, Reliable handling ... It is a pity, for all this is asked for 17900, it is damn, expensive !!! Yes, and the dynamics wanted more ...
6. Mitsubishi Lancer. Cool chassis. Wonderful motor. Boring appearance. Stupid interior. Sedan. Everyone has. Pop. Although the machine with a gun liked so much ... that I was only pleased with my money for her!
7. Mitsubishi Colt. Plastic on wheels. Externally loyal, inside is cheap. Strange landing behind the wheel, Vanutuz instead of a gearbox ... if it were not, then I would think, and so ... a good motor (1.3, 97 horses), good handling, all this will leave other buyers
8. Chervolet Aveo. Stileging with a bully character and a good price. The appearance of the hatchback is very interesting, however, the terrible smell of plastics in the cabin quickly reminds that there is no Chevrolet, and even Daewoo, sorry, Kalos. For this money you can buy a car and a popularity. In addition, the reliability and durability of the Koreans confuses me.
9. Hyundai Getz. Right as a refrigerator. Looks like a botany. The appearance is quite, the salon is also nothing, except that the materials of the finish pushed out, and I was crammed behind the wheel. Rides confidently, gear transmissions ... But does not leave the feeling that he bought not a car, not a horse with a soul and character, but bought a kitchenette, reliable, functional and faceless. If I chose only the ruble, then the getz would beat, but I also wanted to enjoy driving, and not just move from point A to point B. In addition, you read carefully a guarantee that they are supposedly for 5 years ?? ??
10. Fusion! Salted with great clearance and claims for a jeep, with a competent interior and a good equipping. It would be worth it to be cheaper, I would still think, but ... overpay for extra centimeters two or three pieces of bucks - it does not roll.
11. Focus 2 initially manifes low prices ... It has not yet turned out that these prices are much higher than on the Fiesta in the same configuration. Yes, and goes the focus is hardly, somehow sluggish and insensitive, even with a 2.0 engine. So the elder brother also remained in the shade.
And what's the Fiesta? You could go on the road after working with the calculator! Consider: 100 forces, Condidis, changer on 6 disks, ABS, Stabilization system, 4 pillows, leather steering, flightcomputer, leather steering wheel - all this cost me $ 15185 !!! And if you consider that both appearance, salon, and dynamics, and handling, and capacity, and sizes, and I really liked efficiency, then ... it turned out that the opportunity was completely coincided with desires! And what do you say? Tell us how do you feel about all of the Fordic Competits?
qUOTE: Originally Posted by Medvedev:
Fiesta will be better, but buy a car that will be removed from production ... I do not know whether it is worth it.
By the way, the topic was really, there everything is painted in detail. (here is part of what I wrote there)
I often have to drive both on the other car, both 1.6 MCPP. Here is a small comparison.
Suspension.
Fiesta is definitely more interesting in management, the car is more alive, insufficient turning is almost not expressed, rather from the Fiesta tendency to excess to whom, as I like it, the main thing is not to overdo it. Ghetze on the discharge of the gas does not want to respond at all, the Fiesta does it with pleasure. The ghee is pronounced insufficient turning, safely, but boring.
In general, the pendant's pendant at the Fiesta is uniquely tougher and IMHO no more, the ghetz of small seams and cracks on the asphalt noticing, the Fiesta sends them to the body, and in general, on a broken road on a ghee ride more pleasant. But at the expense of a tougher suspension, the Fiesta, unlike the ghee, does not rock on the waves of asphalt.
In general, the hetz is more comfortable and sneakers, Fiesta more sports and alive.
Engine (speaker)
The Fiesta annoys the sound of the motor, the vacuum cleaner at home I have noble noble. Ghetz 1.6 at high speed sounds much more pleasant.
The quantor has not yet traveled, it will come to wait for spring, but according to the subjective feelings of the Fiesta, the hetze will turn, not at the expense of the motor, but at the expense of a short row, but in general, on the dynamics of cars are approximately equal. Fiesta row is much shorter! Where the Fiesta has a third, the hetzea cut-off on the second
Also, Ford more like a box, but only because the moves are less, and it works even more clearly ...
Salon.
Every man to his own taste.
But since our Fiesta is black, and in a two-colored ghee, it is definitely more fun in Ghetze.
On the front panel, the plastic fiesta is nicer and softer, but also in the gheeza, it is proper successful, hard, but it looks quite solid.
All the doors in Ghetze (and the hood) are closed softer and more pleasant, the Fiesta has a hood of a terribly bough.
Places in the cabin is approximately the same, but in the ghee of the place, it still seems to be a little more, in the back especially.
In the Fiesta pleases are bigger than in the ghetze, the range of driver's seat rugs.
In Ghetze, with a height of 186, I always go with a seat with a stop, in Piste, if you move the seat until I stop, I can't even completely squeeze the clutch. (But if in Ghetze, you can still sit down for the driver, the seat of which is moved to the stop, then in the Fiesta, well, in no way.)
Woman I would buy a hetze, more comfortable and in winter in management easier
In short - it means better?
"Kalina" -Hechbek shorter sedan for 190 mm, which took away the trunk. The spacious salon did not suffer at all. Of course, the characteristic ledge of the floor under the rear seat is still preventing comfortable and getting out of the car, especially those who wear shoes of size 44 and more ... But of all the cars on the test only her backseat It is able to accommodate three with sufficient comfort. Alas, the head restraints were not enough - in the event of a blow from behind the neck of passengers, there will be serious danger. The current norms of certification do not require the mandatory availability of these elements, but I would very much like to feel the desire of the manufacturer to make a competitive car, and not just to meet the existing standards.
"Kalina" looks quite worthy: moderate and smooth body gaps, tightly closed doors, upholstery elements are not bad. But I introduced to know the salon to the touch, you understand - until imported quality distance is a huge size. After the unreacted autumn sunshine "Kalina" empties such an amber that I want to open the window to the window. By the way, why the glasses in the front doors do not fully go out? And such tight handles control heating and ventilation? Why, to make warmer, do you need to turn counterclockwise? And even pleasant on the sight of the seat, quite acceptable on the editorial "Kalina", here it is like a manna cashee. And where two unnecessary piston fell on the floor? Maybe someone on the conveyor insert forgot?!
However, on the move of the hatchback turned out to be quieter of the sedan usual - noise isolation is clearly better, and graduation system, even if not completely serial, growls moderate. On the course the sound of the engine becomes louder, the rattling of the gear shift mechanism is mixed. Everything comes in comparison - even vigorous "Fiesta" after Kalina seems to be quiet.
The electric amplifier worked without whims, but it did not become intelligible: in a tense turn, the position of the wheels are guessing. However, the results of measurements almost negotiated (less than 200 km) "Kalina" confirmed factory figures. The car confidently accelerates, but by elasticity, especially on the fifth gear, is far behind the rivals. This wines are not a motor, but too long the main pair. Its plus is a low fuel consumption in a rustic cycle. With an improvised measurement in the range of 60-110 km / h, the average consumption was 6.1 l / 100 km. Noticeably less than the "Fiesta" (6.3), but more than that of a comparable "Goetz" (5,8).
It is useful to save fuel, but not too fascinating - still want to ride quickly. And on different roads. The energy intensity of Kalina suspension is traditionally high - it can be very quickly riding on a broken road. But on a flat asphalt with relatively small defects, they all perfectly seep through the "impenetrable" suspension. According to the geometric passability of "Kalina" "will make" the absolute majority of modern "parquets", but below everything turned out to be an elegant gear shift mechanism. So the protection of the motor compartment is required.
With brakes, not everything is smooth, although on domestic standards they act well: stop the car from 100 km / h in less than 50 m. True, some analogues are enough for forty ...
I want a holiday!
From infinite fuss, you want to relax, but it is better to combine a pleasant with useful. For example, in a car on which you can not only ride for numerous instructions, but also to enjoy. For this, quite a sufficiently melted motor with adjustable intake and a great chassis on good tires. Of course, you want the best seats, more comfortable suspension, effective noise insulation, and all this is possible ... in the machines on a couple of classes above and three times more.
Korean bestseller in the class of compact hatchbacks convincingly proved that comfort and convenience are eternal values. But if we talk about a gambling driver - his choice will be "Fiesta". Who would offer "Kalina"? "
Lada Kalina.Sedan is sold in Russia since the summer of 2005, Hatchback - since the summer of 2006.
Engine: gasoline 1.6 l (80 hp).
Transmission: 5-speed mechanical.
Equipment: the only option.
Presented in 2002, restyling - in the fall of 2005. Offer 3- or 5-door hatchback.
Engines: In Russia, gasoline 1.1-1.6 l (66-106 hp).
Boxes gear: 5-speed mechanical, 4-speed "automatic" (for 1.4 and 1.6 liters).
Package: GL, GLS.
Price: $ 10 590-16 490.
Lada Kalina is perhaps the best car created in modern Russia. Unfortunately, it is not enough for an equal control with competitors.
Total rating of 7.4
Spacious salon, traveler and economical motor, excellent geometric permeability, good visibility, energy-intensive suspension, comfort on bad roads.
Uncomfortable driving seat, not enough informative governments, the absence of ABS, mediocre tire coupling, noise and vibration of the power unit.
Ford Fiesta - Unlike the older brother "Focus", preaching the true pleasure of management. Even at the cost of some impractical solutions.Total rating of 7.8.
Powerful engine, good dynamics, effective brakes, accurate steering, long-term intersavice intervals, big trunk.
All three cars are no longer for the first time on the pages of our magazine. "Kalina" is the main trump card of the domestic car industry for the next five to six years. "Fiesta" is one of the most sold in Europe at five generations. "Getz" - the Russian sales champion among the compact class hatchbacks. From direct comparison not to leave, but it is much more important to figure out what the chances of "Kalina" and what to expect in the near future. By car!
In short - it means better?
"Kalina" -Hechbek shorter sedan for 190 mm, which took away the trunk. The spacious salon did not suffer at all. Of course, the characteristic ledge of the floor under the rear seat still interferes comfortably sit down and cut out of the car, especially those who wear shoes size 44 and more ... But of all the machines on the test only its backseat is able to accommodate three with sufficient comfort. Alas, the head restraints were not enough - in the event of a blow from behind the neck of passengers, there will be serious danger. The current norms of certification do not require the mandatory availability of these elements, but I would very much like to feel the desire of the manufacturer to make a competitive car, and not just to meet the existing standards.
"Kalina" looks quite worthy: moderate and smooth body gaps, tightly closed doors, upholstery elements are not bad. But I introduced to know the salon to the touch, you understand - until imported quality distance is a huge size. After the unreacted autumn sunshine "Kalina" empties such an amber that I want to open the window to the window. By the way, why the glasses in the front doors do not fully go out? And such tight handles control heating and ventilation? Why, to make warmer, do you need to turn counterclockwise? And even pleasant on the sight of the seat, quite acceptable on the editorial "Kalina", here it is like a manna cashee. And where two unnecessary piston fell on the floor? Maybe someone on the conveyor insert forgot?!
However, on the move of the hatchback turned out to be quieter of the sedan usual - noise insulation is clearly better, and the exhaust system, even if not completely serial, growing moderately. On the course the sound of the engine becomes louder, the rattling of the gear shift mechanism is mixed. Everything comes in comparison - even vigorous "Fiesta" after Kalina seems to be quiet.
The electric amplifier worked without whims, but it did not become intelligible: in a tense turn, the position of the wheels are guessing. However, the results of measurements almost negotiated (less than 200 km) "Kalina" confirmed factory figures. The car confidently accelerates, but by elasticity, especially on the fifth gear, is far behind the rivals. This wines are not a motor, but too long the main pair. Its plus is a low fuel consumption in a rustic cycle. With an improvised measurement in the range of 60-110 km / h, the average consumption was 6.1 l / 100 km. Noticeably less than the "Fiesta" (6.3), but more than that of a comparable "Goetz" (5,8).
It is useful to save fuel, but not too fascinating - still want to ride quickly. And on different roads. The energy intensity of Kalina suspension is traditionally high - it can be very quickly riding on a broken road. But on a flat asphalt with relatively small defects, they all perfectly seep through the "impenetrable" suspension. According to the geometric passability of "Kalina" "will make" the absolute majority of modern "parquets", but below everything turned out to be an elegant gear shift mechanism. So the protection of the motor compartment is required.
With brakes, not everything is smooth, although on domestic standards they act well: stop the car from 100 km / h in less than 50 m. True, some analogues are enough for forty ...
I want a holiday!
From infinite fuss, you want to relax, but it is better to combine a pleasant with useful. For example, in a car on which you can not only ride for numerous instructions, but also to enjoy. For this, quite a sufficiently melted motor with adjustable intake and a great chassis on good tires. Of course, you want the best seats, more comfortable suspension, effective noise insulation, and all this is possible ... in the machines on a couple of classes above and three times more.
Ford Fiesta proved convincing superiority in accelerating dynamics, brakes and controllability in complex turns. And its steering wheel with the hydraulicer turned out to be more accurate and clearer even at the limit of the possibilities of the car, rather than the "electric" rudders of competitors. But, in addition to pleasure driving, there are other criteria.
The bright holiday consistently follow the gray weekdays. In the "Fiesta" they start in the back seat. Short, almost horizontal pillow, vertical back. Sit, without resting his head and knees, a person of the average set could seem to be, but it is to endure there a long-distance travel by the power is unruly teenage. Road clearance "Fiesta" formally not bad - 134 mm, but this is without any protection. It will remain no more than 110-115 mm - between the pallet and the steel sheet should be a gap.
The clockwork nature of the car does not have a calm ride style. "Fiese" is needed good, but winding roadbetter with fresh and smooth coating. On ordinary Russian highways, the car even at moderate speeds copies the road profile and hard worries the slightest irregularities. But the wheels almost always remain in dense contact with the road, and the driver is in full confidencethat can drive around an unexpected obstacle.
It turns out that it is best to buy a "Fiesta" with a three-door body - this is in fact created for two and weekend. Fiftemer is only a forced compromise between machines for every day and for pleasure. Not because "Ford Fusion" is sold from us significantly better, not to mention the "focus" ...
Mind not heart
"Höndai-Getz" is not the first time participating in our tests. And the requirements for an experienced fighter increase each time. His disadvantages are known hardly better than the advantages. Necklik ground clearance - on the this car Just 116 mm. Yes, motor compartment It is securely closed with powerful steel "armor", and the fuel tank is protected and metal, and a plastic screen, but "Patency" will not call acceptable: "Getz" manages to cry with a belly even when driving on a sink.
But the floor in "Goetz", on the contrary, the highest. Because of this, the driver landing with growth is higher than the average far from the ideal, despite the adjustments of the height and tilt of the seat cushion. The back with quite confident lateral support is too flat and poorly supports lower back. From behind "Getz" only slightly inferior to "Kalina" in size, but all three places with head restraints, and parts of the back can be installed with different inclination.
The new 16-valve engine is 1.4 liters under a short hood "Goetz" noticeably exceeds the former 1.3 l with three valves per cylinder and is distinguished by low noise even on high revs. It is there that manifests itself from the best side and its character. However, according to elasticity, he successfully beat Kalina. But brighter, this motor showed itself in fuel economy: outside the city, if the air conditioner, "Getz" is not included without any problems, it is filled with 6 l / 100 km.
And in the parking lot with the engine, and on the road in any high-speed range "Getz" remains the most quiet of the Trinity. It is not bad for both small irregularities on the road, and with coarse asphalt. But the waves and major coating defects are ringing it out of the rut. The lack of energy-intensity suspensions strongly affects the accuracy of the control, and in tense turns leads to a sharp and deep drift. The steering wheel with an electric detector undoubtedly helps save fuel, and after "viburnum" is perceived as a set of settings. However, recreated in the "Fiesta", you understand that before the ideal "Korean" is far ...
Emotions and arguments
They do not get worse - we are becoming older. Most recently, a domestic car, in which everything works, nothing flows and in which during the test (and this is quite a serious load) did not break anything and did not even work worse, was already an event. And today we will install on nasty smell Plastics and tight handles ... Alas - "Kalina" extremely pale looks on the background of classmates. Yes, in the basic configuration, it is noticeably cheaper, but how much will the car be worth it, equipped at least ABS, airbags, rear head restraints, air conditioning?
Time does not stand still. "Fiesta" and "Getz" in a year or two will replace new models. "Kalina" - no. Will we be able to see the stabilization system or adaptive headlights on it in the coming years, even if even in the most expensive, but the factory configuration? Or the domestic car will remain a designer for lovers of all sorts of tuning? But from "Kalina" it turns out a good "PARTNER", and incendiary hatchback. They just needed yesterday ...
While the hatchback of VAZ-11193 is something like a suit, a suitted tailor of a provincial town. In it you are the first guy in the village, but in the capital, the policeman at the station will certainly ask your registration. The province is not a curse, it's a birthplace ...
Doping test
Cars prices we write in dollars - those that declares the manufacturer. So visually, and the calculations for the supply of imported cars occur in dollars or euros. But the final buyer pays ruble - so it should be done according to the law.
The recalculation rate in the showroom may noticeably differ from what establishes the central bank. So, official dealers "Höndai" consider dollars of 27.9 rubles, automatically increasing the price of cars by 4.5%. So the most affordable "Getz" on the day of the test was worth $ 11,125, and the car represented - $ 15 140. Ford dealers work at the official rate. Well, the price of "Kalina" is initially in rubles: 258 thousand. Consider carefully.
Korean bestseller in the class of compact hatchbacks convincingly proved that comfort and convenience are eternal values. But if we talk about a gambling driver - his choice will be "Fiesta". Who would offer "Kalina"? "
Ford Fiesta 1.6 MCPP
Outside
From English, French and Spanish, the word "Fiesta" is translated equally: "Holiday". True, the current last Ford Fiesta externally especially festive emotions does not cause - in our four-four car looks, perhaps, the most strictly.
But for the sake of justice, we will note: seeking "fun" you can safely refer to the "three-door" - even in the sports version of ST, this car successfully fit into the appearance of the Rider.
The five-door hatchback looks more freeware: due to the almost vertical door of the trunk, the roof seems somewhat higher than the car is less than four meters long.
In general, the Ford Fiesta design is largely echoes with the formation of Fusion, but still does not leave the impressions that in front of you are a bus in miniature.
Inside
Fiesta salon reminds the decoration of the entire Ford Light, with amendment on the status and age of the model. The panel of instruments without hints to a modest in-class - everything is symmetrically, strictly, functionally, and most importantly, unbelievable ...
I remember, dorestayling fiesta Our buyer did not particularly complain: a large number of options options and saline solidity (among other things) the manufacturer supported a very significant price tag - the car was more expensive than Focus even in the initial configuration.
Now the situation has changed, but Fiesta remained correctly stated in the plank style plan.
The Ford Fiesta will be good and the driver and passengers - the salon does not shine wide, but the stock of the head retains decent.
It will be good and chooser: Fiesta's trunk is the biggest out of the top four. Naturally, it can be increased - laying up completely or in parts the back of the rear armchair.
In move
Miscellaneous to the Ford Fiesta at the Tenship Lights with a Hefty Spoiler on the trunk lid, brilliant disks and other naive attributes of "Uncompromising Sports" cropped direct flow.
Chasing in the city? No, dismissal, but only a few transitions "clutch-gear" was enough for Fiesta to revenge for the whole "baby", assembled on our test.
A hundred horse power Under the hood on a little more than a ton of the outfit mass, a small miracle is capable of creating a small miracle - the car accelerates so eagerly and rising that sometimes they wonder why your body is not fixed in the hard "bucket", and the ears do not caress a specially configured exhaust sound ...
When the tachometer arrows closely selected to the mark of 3500 rpm, the engine begins to observedly remind of its intense work. You can maintain acoustic comfort, more often by working the gear lever, but in the active ride mode will have to reconcile.
The Fiesta suspension perfectly showed itself during high-speed maneuvers: neither the swing, nor rolls the car did not allow himself. The reverse side of the medal is the tough testing of the irregularities of the road leaf on small and medium rates.
TOTAL
Ford Fiesta is good for those who appreciate in little car Cubometers of useful internal space on a par with the ability to "draw with a light." And I am ready to post for this money deferred on the car with the class higher.
"Fords" made their work on the "five" - \u200b\u200bthe car can boast not only a convenient practical interior, but also an incendiary motor (in version 1.6), and a well-tuned chassis.
But any "holiday" is particularly bright when the novelty buzzes from it, and the car clearly lingered on the conveyor. Well, looking forward to updates!
Hyundai Getz 1.4 MCPP
Outside
Hyundai Getz has become a kind of breakthrough korean brand On Russian automotive market. Nobody thought that with the help of modest small trampling you can make "weather" on the expanses of our homeland, but the fact remains a fact: the queues were built on Getz. And now restyling model enjoys enviable demand.
The designers did not experiment with the appearance of the car, created in 2002, so restyling, spent three years later, was unsolvedly affected by the appearance of Getz - except for the features of the "face" became more smooth. But in general, angular forms that have already become a business card of the machine, have been preserved.
It pleases the fact that with the small dimensions of the car, the designers managed to make the doorways wide and comfortable, without violating the proportions of the body.
Inside
That really is where to raise fantasies! But under one condition: if you want to be original and ready to pay extra.
For example, you can order an interior trim with red or blue inserts, and you can leave the traditional black and gray gamut. The latter, probably, in our conditions is practical, but some kind of cloudy and only emphasizes the robustness of the interior.
However, simple - does not mean uncomfortable. The driver's seat "hurried" is excellent: the chair is comfortable, the devices are well read, the steering wheel falls into his hands.
Add five adjustments to the driver's chair plus the steering wheel adjustment in height - and it turns out that in its price range for the convenience of the GETZ salon, it keeps in the mill leader.
In move
Restyling appearance was supplemented by technical changes: two new motors appeared in the ruler - 1.1 l (66 l. P.) And 1.4 L (97 liters p.). There is, however, a more powerful version is 1.6 liters (106 l.), But, in our opinion, the optimal for this model is still 1.4 liter engine.
This unit begins to confidently carry somewhere from 2,000 rpm and has a rather wide range of confident thrust: up to 4,000-4,500 rpm You can accelerate without switching. And on the go, the machine behaves quite quietly: noise insulation of the cabin - at the height.
The steering wheel, equipped, contrary to the latest trends in a small class, not the electro-, and the hydraulic agent, allows you to accurately choose the necessary "angle of attack", and mechanical boxDespite the rather thread of the lever, it has a high selective.
Several spoiled the impression "wadded" brakes and clutch pedals, but perhaps finding mutual understanding with them is a matter of habit. Especially since the quality of braking, especially in version with ABS, there is no complaints.
The main thing is not to stick in Ughab, because on the irregularities, the blows are passed very significantly.
TOTAL
Hyundai Getz, despite the old model age, did not lose its main advantages - it is still relatively available, it has a decent dynamics (with a motor from 1.4 liters) and looks good. Perhaps this is the secret of his long popularity. True, in terms of possible equipment, the car is somewhat losing more than eminent competitors, but the necessary set, like front airbags, ABS and air conditioning, it is ready.
Opel Corsa 1.2 l, 80 liters. s., RMCPP Easytronic
Outside
According to the originality of Corsa, maybe MICRA is inferior, but you can't call it less sympathetic. In comparison with two other participants, the Opel test looks particularly bright.
Cute front with keel is made in corporate style; Transparent headlights playfully "bent" upwards, and the drop-down "shoulder" line and inclined underlined arches make the silhouette of the hatchback by wedge-shaped, rapid. Opel design can not be loved, but not recognize Corsa stylish car It is impossible.
In addition, if you imagine the hatch not with light, but with a dark color, Corsa will change the impression of yourself. He will suddenly lose their playfulness, and in combination of smooth circuits with "sharp" elements, even some aggressiveness will feel. And what will remain female in it?
Inside
Toy. More accurate definitions of the interior of Corsa will not pick up - a beige "spot" on the central console; Orange lighting of devices, buttons and adjustment handles; The combination of rough and polished plastic creates an atmosphere of the interior of a children's car fleet.
However, the interior can radically change together with the package - especially with polished plastic version of Cosmo ...
It is convenient to get driving at the wheel of Corsa will help a wide range of driver adjustments, as well as the ability to set the steering column in height and departure.
Soft seats, though soft, but are not bad ones, why the back does not get tired in them. But plastic around, on the contrary, is hard. Even on the torpedo.
In move
Like most robotic boxes, Easytronic - the thing is not the most convenient. In the "automatic" mode, it is almost impossible to move without "Clevkov" and "jerk". And in the "manual" it all depends on the driver: if a little delay the gas during switching, the gearbox will change the transmission optimally, without delay. Smoothness requires effort.
So, unlike modern "automata", this box does not adapt to the driver, and it requires to adapt to it!
The suspension is a sufficient energy-intensive, comfort-oriented. In the corners of Corsa rolls and clearly gives to understand the limit of its capabilities. And brakes are not bad: powerful, but very sensitive: the slightest "mobile" efforts passengers will respond together by nod .
And the motor is just excellent! Quiet, frisky on "Nizakh" and quite a trap for 1.2 liters. And most importantly: seven liters of gasoline in the city for him - in the order of things! You can, of course, choose less powerful (1.0 l, 60 liters.) Or more powerful (1.4 l, 90 l.) Option, but with the first acceleration to "hundreds" will take almost 20 s, and with the second fundamental advantage You will not get.
TOTAL
Bright outward and very balanced by chassis A car that is perfect for girls. But both men do not have to be shy - it is worth only to choose the appropriate color and the "right" wheel size ... and the queues are not the ones that six months ago. The hype begins to subsoine ...
Nissan Micra 1.2 l, 80 liters. s., ACPP
Externally
Time is not powerful over Micra: Undoubtedly, it is the most extravagant of our test hatchbacks - despite the fact that the first
Brand "Nissanovskaya" two-level front panel: the upper floor is given to the radio and on-board computer, and the lower - the climate control unit. In the selector automatic transmission, a long handle: it does not need to be stretching to it.
A pleasant ability to move the back seat within 20 cm allows you to increase either rear passengersor the volume of the luggage compartment.
Of the unpleasant: it is convenient to grasp the wheel interfere with insufficient chairs adjustment ranges, the backs of which, plus to this, are soft and flat. Passengers of middle growth from the back will be closed. That she and "Mikra"!
In move
MICRA turns are not the most optimally manageable from the fourth; In addition, the effort on the steering wheel is rather vague. But on the smoothness of the stroke, many will give odds - it is focused on a comfortable movement in the city and optimal trimming of blows about the pit and road defects.
TOTAL
Nontrivial city car; Judging by the design, unconditionally oriented to the female audience. Each element of Micra is designed for the one, which, only in passing by throwing a look at her, can no longer be able to take him and will persistent in his desires. Perhaps Micra and not the most interesting in the management of the hatchback, but this is a discovery for people who value smoothness and comfort at an affordable price.
