Test Drive Chevrolet Lacetti Sedan since 2004 Sedan

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Chevrolet Latzetti, nee, recently appeared on the Russian market, but already managed to earn a good reputation. Relatively inexpensive, quite modern, comfortable, with decent dynamic characteristics and a rich set of additional equipment. Weighing trumps in the deck of cars with a cross on the radiator grille. And most importantly today's Latzetti is assembled at the Kaliningrad Avtotor, an accelerator list of Russian foreign cars.
Party for beginners
Latzetti for the Russian market approxes three body and as many engines. The most affordable five-door hatchback with an engine 1.4 liters. In the Budget configuration, the Star (Star, sometimes there is a letter designation SE) it costs $ 13,390. However, the equipment set is not a poor driver's seat and the steering column are adjustable in height, the ram helps to turn the amplifier, the car locks the central lock with remote control, on the front doors the electrical windows. The driver and passengers will entertain CD magnetol with four speakers, and to protect against troubles are called by ABS, front airbags, belts with pretensioners, immobilizer. As the option is offered air conditioning ($ 800). Add a thousand, and a gasoline unit of 1.6 liters will appear under the hood.
A sedan is more expensive than hatchback by $ 400, the minimum equipment is called plus (Plus or also SE). It is almost no different from the version of the old at the five-door body, except that additionally offers electric and heating mirrors. And in the next configuration, the Star of the sedan is added a regular air conditioning.
By equipping the levels plus and old wagon as two drops of water look like a sedan. The engine does not have to choose only 1.6-liter. It is natural that this family option is more expensive than 1.5 thousand dollars. By the way, regardless of the type of body, motor and additional equipment, can add 230 dollars for the metallic color to the price.
Second round
For wealthy and demanding buyers, the following equipment elite (elite or sx). It is more expensive than 450 600 dollars versions depending on the type of body. The steering column is adjustable not only by tilt, but also in the longitudinal direction; On the driver's seat there was a lumbar backup. The sound CD magnetic is from 6 speakers, and you can control the buttons on the ram. All four electric windows. The center of the central console and handles with a metal sampling, the steering wheel and lever of the gearbox are entertained. Instead of plugs in bumper fog lights. Hatchbacks in the version of the elite are offered both with motors of 1.4 and
1.6 liters, the rest are only with 1.6-liter units. Starting with this configuration, you can order Latzetti with an automatic box. But only a hatchback and a sedan with motors of 1.6 liters are not sold with machine guns.
The buyer of the hatchback or the wagon in the execution of the elite, adding another 700 dollars, will receive climate control and a pair of side airbags. You can also enroll and when ordering a sedan just for some reason, for Latzetti with such a body, this will already have another completion of Premium (Premium or also SX).
The vertex of comfort became platinum (platinum or CDX), where not only the driver, but also passengers, is furnished with comfortable and useful things. For example, an explanatory backup appeared on the front right of the seat, and on the second row, the armrest with the cup holders. The owner of such Latzetti do not need to constantly change the discs in the radio tape recorder to its services, a regular installed CD changer. Safety is not forgotten: ABS will be an anti-duct system, active head restraints are added to the pillows, the steering power plant, which changes the speed with increasing speed, janitors with rain sensor. In this configuration, you can choose between 1.6- and 1.8-liter engines (the last of 1100 dollars is more expensive). In addition, any of them offers either a manual box or an automatic.
By the way, the most expensive modification of Latzetti sedan with an engine 1.8 liters and a machine gun in the platinum configuration costs $ 20,490. Feel the difference between a minimum and maximum.
Open cards
Although the Trinity wears the same names and hear a single family, their appearance is different. Differences not only in the stern of the hatchback a different expression of the face than two other Latzetti. And if you look into the salon, it is highlighted sedan with the design of the dashboard (more precisely, its top) and the trimming of the doors.
Externally crusaders do not seem close. Once inside, do not disappoint. The seats may not be ideal in shape, serious complaints do not cause, and the ranges of adjustments are acceptable even for large people. True, Baranca is a bit too big sometimes catching yourself thinking that you would drive the visibility from the driver's seat would be good if there were no massive front racks, which are also helping the angular fastenings of the mirrors.
The rear doorways will pleasantly surprise when landing; On the second row, together by freely, however, the third of them does not constantly shine a place in the legs enough, and the air remains above the head. If necessary, Latzetti can be sent in five and long trips, and even on the hatchback, the most modest on the dimensions.
YOUR TURN
If you buy Latzetti for yourself a loved one, and passengers and heavy fucking are rare, and you can drive for mostly in the city, you can be content with a 95-strong engine of 1.4 liters. Do you like family travel? Often load the car under the string? Then you need a more powerful engine, for example, 1.6-liter. Of course, the reserve of the pocket does not pull, you can swall in and on the motor 1.8 l / 122 liters. with. But it is possible that the pocket will be proud: after all, the difference in prices between Latzetti with 1.4 and 1.8 l motors about 30%.
The same principle of reasonable sufficiency is best guided by the choice of Latzetti with a machine gun. Do not need an additional power supply. Take a car with a 1.6-liter motor. By dynamic characteristics, it resembles a 1,4 liter mechanics. You wish a more frown and crawled 1.8-liter version to copy another three thousand dollars.
On the settings of the suspension and steering control, Latzetti is more suitable for the role of a comfortable family car than, as they say, the driver's apparatus is now. The energy-intensive suspension is well smoothed by the infancy of our roads, which is especially appreciated on long-distance travel. True, it is necessary to pay for such a soft character by slow reactions and tangible rolls in turns. But to move from the asphalt very carefully the road clearance of only 130 mm, and not under the steel armorist, but under a plastic mudguard, covering the engine compartment from dirt and water (more).
Let us summarize: Latzetti modern, spacious car with solid appearance and good characteristics for relatively small money. And I will remind you that cars with crosses are collected in Russia, and, it means, the numbers on the price tags may repent. It must be assumed in favor of the buyer.

With Latzetti in Life
Factory warranty 2 years without mileage limit. Some dealers have rates for Latzetti with different engines differ, others averaged the cost of service. TO-1 (15 thousand km) with consumables in the capital will cost an average of 4,300 rubles; TO-2 (30 thousand km) 6400, T-3 (45 thousand km) 7800, T-4 (60 thousand km) 10 800.
 
 
 

   





Maxim Sachkov
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"