Test drive Citroen C4 hatchback since 2004 Hatchback

Golf War Field

League of real champions
Hatchbacks get better, more and their sales are constantly growing. Here are the heroes of our time: Volkswagen Golf, Honda Civic, Citroen C4 and Peugeot 307. They are spoiled so quickly that even pick up cars for the dough in the same configurations turned out to be not easy. As a result, we got Golf and C4 with 1,6 liter motors and automata, two-liter 307th, too, with automatic transmission and Civic with 1.8 liter engine and mechanics. However, it is also for the better, because it is often in such a situation that the buyer who has to choose from what is.
Rare case: Having built this four in a row, you can consider the evolution of the utilitarian car for the whole half a century

Who is something
PEUGEOT 307.
Price of a car tested $ 25,300
Max. Power 143 liters. With.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b200 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 10 s
 
Citroen C4.
Price of a tested car $ 18,650
Max. Power 110 l. With.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b188 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 12,4
Volkswagen Golf.
Price of a tested car $ 22,627
Max. Power 102 liters. With.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b181 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 12.5
 
Honda Civic.
Price of a car tested $ 24,900
Max. Power 140 liters. With.
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b205 km / h
Acceleration 0100 km / h 8.9
 
HOW DO THEY LOOK
Nikita Rozanov
OUTSIDE
Golf class with such participants I want to rename. For example, in a C4 class or a civic class. A sample of modern design is worthy to be both. Not worse and bright Astra, and the updated Peugeot 307. The founder of the VW classification is also the appearance of the appearance and in comparison with the silhouettes of 4-generations of its predecessors drawn by the silhouettes of its predecessors looks like a completely sensual etude on the theme of the modern presentation of the dynamics. Reviewality from the face of the whole five is impeccable and, even if dismantling the emblems, it is almost impossible to confuse anyone with a competitor. For example, Citroen stylists in general made the radiator cladding in the form of the emblem. Also known now and the top of the cladding Civic and Peugeot 307. The bullet silhouette of a Japanese car outside the competition! In comparison with him, the rest just froze in place. The situation does not save even the defiant novel profile at the fawn. And Civic has a lot of cool and mischievous parts, the main of which is disguised on the port of Alfa Romeo rear doors, the sign of the fuel neck and the stalking dynamics of the belt line, which pierces the front wheel the arch, takes off up and dissolves in vortex aerodynamic streams. The remaining dough participants in terms of silhouettes look calm and judgment, and Golf is generally an unshakable set of rules. But if you roll Civic for an angle, then we boil the energy and its line, surface and face. How it is found, the composition and drawing of the back of the body in a mass class quietly and calmly completes the started on the sidewall, not glowing and without having examining the created image. But Civic again leaves the foundations of the golf class architecture. For example, try to find the boundaries of the rear wall of the body. They are not, as they do not have an orange. Another thing is German design: everything is bordered quite traditionally. Jewelery is also a bit, and they can be attributed to the drawing of the lanterns of all without exception of cars and a chromed plano with identification inscriptions.
INSIDE
Very praise all. First of all, for the integrity of the image that is close to the ideal. That's just Citroen went over with eccentricity, but it is worth remembering that there is a more radical look at threedorm, and you can stop paying attention to it. Especially since visual information, and the storage algorithms are original and thought out to the smallest detail. The exception is for some reason the fixed central pillow of the steering wheel. How to use the service buttons located on it is not clear. The Golf interior as always, the rationality itself, Peugeot is corporate and restrained, well, Civic balances on the edge of the foul, what, however, right there forget, it is worth going to wipe the headlights only.
SUMMARY
I think everyone is satisfied: and lovers of radicalism are intended to them Civic and C4, and supporters of a softer push by stylists for them 307th, and, even I am a lover VW Golf.
 
Text Anton Ivanov
Photo by Alexander Nozdrin
 

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