Test Drive Geely Emgrand Sedan since 2009 Sedan

Test Drive Geely Emgrand from Drom.ru. What will please "Chinese" for 539,000 rubles?

Rides? Yes, of course. Slows down? Well, somehow slows down. The steering wheel rotates, the pedals are pressed, the transmission switches. Yes, the seats are leather and magnetol with a large screen, an SD card and miniusb-input. This is a description of Geely Emgrand and finish.

... You know, with Chinese cars, it is always not easy in the sense of verbalization of sensations. Any unexpected epithet, not quite accurate or more integrity, will be considered under the magnifying glass. There are a lot of perverse readers. The adepts and haters of the Chinese automotive industry equally talking not to arguments, but emotions and interjections. Distributors and sellers: With these constructive dialogs are possible only around the phrase is a great machine. Well, the Chinese themselves who make the translations of Russian-speaking notes in Google Translate and send letters later, in which items prove that the author is a small idiot. But the Chinese auto industry is interesting to me, I try to experience any new product personally. But what to do then, when the door shut and give the keys? Waving in definitions, trying to get away from hard definition? To call things with their names, knowing that any doubt perfectly will be elevated to the rank of sabotage against sovereign China?

Not easy task, yes. Let's do this: I will write, as it is, and you yourself decide how the author was objective and unbiased. OK? Go.
    
For the first time Geely Emgrand I saw at the Moscow Motor Show at the end of August. Then the car made a little even shocking impression: against the background of the doping MK and MK-Cross Emgrand looked absolutely European. Spectacular, all so sparkling in the rays of sophods, like a pop star. I really liked the salon and quality, and design. There is no Volvoy refinement in the style of Emgrand, but you can already talk about aesthetics without quotes.

Then I had to wait for a month while the car appears in the press park of the Moscow office of Geely. And here I am the first of the journalists who received a power of attorney and drove to Moscow streets.

Emgrand One of the few Chinese, which sometimes turns around passersby and look with interest the owners of the vases. It is with interest: what is it? These lines ... Yes, yes ... I saw, but I do not remember where. Here is this characteristic Abris ... Something from Kia Spectra, something like a side profile of the trunk, in general from Mercedes W221! Trapezoidal front headlights, elegantly expanding on wings, this is the jeam fashion of the end of the 90s, but looks cool. An outstanding lattice of the radiator A la Viktor Tsoi is also bold and convincing, as well as a large emblem, clearly stylized under the older-American. A separate emblem This was referring to the history of three years ago, when Chinese auto plants on the wave of post-crisis state support addicted to themselves god-news that not only new models began to produce, but also new brands. Emgrand was planned by Geely as a luxury brand. The brand construction was not very wondering, the Chinese graduated, but not to throw away a good emblem, right?

The elegance of the salon is about the same properties: a set of well-known stylistic solutions shifted in a new order. But here, with a careful look, the Chinese appears. Not in design, but in practical deposits. Such as painted buttons on the knob knitting, and painted not in the mass, and on the surface: after a year and a half, this silver caught breaks, heaving a pitiful sight. Or in the display of the clock under the top visor of the central console: there is a free place there, and the displays are made by tiny, you need pepper. And tidy ...

My God, when will it end, eh? When will the Chinese stop counting the blue illumination with a sign Luxury? This is a cognitive dissonance: the claim for a good taste and the cutting-blue saucer and climate displays. It is necessary to dismiss the lovers of blue, to fire to dismiss from the car industry, without days off and on the article.
    
Skin seats (in a car for 539,000 rubles.!) Smooth, without folds, central parts of the armchairs are generally perforated. In the cabin not a single light part, the carpet is also black: can if necessary. The driver's seat is controlled by electric drives: longitudinal movement, the tilt of the back and the separate slope of the front and rear part of the pillows, which, in principle, can be considered as an adjustment in height. There is still a wheel, which is regulated by the backup slightly above the task. Landing is normal in the easiest sense of the word: sat down, snapped, tuned and forgot, nothing more strains. I am sure that the Chinese simply took some European car and conscientiously transferred the ratio of all the reference points of the planting. As well as the interposition of the controls. Millimeter per millimeter. I remember, a few years ago, when Chinese firms were engaged in a direct plagiarism, even copying the initial samples, managed to swell and make worse. And now there are no plagiarism, but you are sitting as in the Corolla or Aster of the sample of the middle of two thousandths.

All other decoration in photos: an excellent leather steering wheel, rustic climate control graphics, plastic inserts under the black tree, thin chrome rims around the deflectors, the presence of a cigarette lighter in the absence of a built-in ashtray, an armrest with two separate boxes, a ceiling hatch with an electric drive and a rigid curtain, six (SIC!) Airbags, a curtain grid in front of the rear glass, drilled head restraints from behind, back chairs, folded into two unequal parts ...

But there is nothing about music about music, except that the dvornin screen is highlighted all the same shameful blue. It was not really possible to use an advanced audio center and navigation: a few minutes after the inclusion, it rained the Chinese language, and no manipulation of restoring the status quo leaded. So traveled three days, listening to humor FM. Three days of Petrosyan and Zadornov in Chinese car ... Well, you understood me. I can only say that on the most radio tape recorder, the volume is very uncomfortable, it is better to do with buttons on the steering wheel.
    
The front right wheel I struck almost immediately. But about it a little later, I'll get the spare time. Do you know what joke? The reserve is normal, full-size, on the cast disk, but ... other diameter! 15 inches instead of 16. Well, that is, the Chinese designed a car under 15-inch wheels, then changed her mind and began to put 16 inches. And what, cool. A niche in the trunk remained the same, 15-inch, not to change the same stamps for such a trifling occasion. As the representative office was told, such a decision demanded even individual certification procedures and a mandatory warning sticker: the speed is not higher than 120 km / h.

Inside the spares are invested with a good plastic container with a jack, a ballonik, even a removal of plastic plugs on the nuts.

But under the reserve the first obvious puncture of manufacturers, in this case of the Deriver: the vibration-patching pad fell off and began to crumble. This is damn strange, since it is in this place that the viborodmosphem does not have any external influences at all. So, they simply did not stick, but threw: and so it will come.

The luggage space is arranged exclusively correctly: the threshold is low, and the upholstery on the lid is, and the cross-reinforcement amplifiers do not hinder the passage into the salon through the backs of the back chairs.
           
There is an inner handle for closing and even a separate trunk lock unlocking knob from the inside. If you, the worship of the chayan, will be lucky on the forest in the forest in the trunk of Geely Emgrand, consider lucky, there is a chance.

We look at the bottom. The layout and architecture of the chassis are absolutely average, McPherson in front plus U-shaped in the section of the beam from behind, with an embedded rod of the Erzats-stabilizer.

Cheap and proven solution, with acceptable kinematics. Is that external to turn the wheel at large rolls leads more than with an independent suspension. The engine pallet and gearbox crankcase are protected by a naturally longitudinal skiing of the subframe.

On the oil pallet, alas, a strong foggy can be seen, apparently, at the factory did not very carefully twisted the cork or, most likely, did not pace the bronze washer.
      
The steering rail is fixed on the subframe, which competently will not be transmitted to the moments on the engine shield. Naturally, it is with a hydraulic agent. Moreover, according to the Chinese tradition, the guru expansion tank occupies one of the most prominent places in the hood. The hydraulicer is equipped with a separate heat exchanger, its loop is fixed on the right side member, in a completely unproduced area.

The power unit is attached on four supports, the front support has an advanced design: the massive gum of a complex shape is hoping on it, which does not relieve. Just hanging in the air. I wonder why?

Emgrand travels peculiar. In the assets, a steady chassis and a very comfortable suspension. Comfort, in this case, it is possible not to slow down the speed on any urban irregularities, including lying cops, while remaining a road profile. The case when knowledge is absolutely not annoying. By blocking, along the tram rails, you can drive as confidently and quickly, as in a flat asphalt, elastic elements will not allow the wheels of the wheels, and the shock absorbers are in a timely manner of parasitic oscillations. If you take the standard of energy intensity of the Logan, then the suspension of the Emgrand will not reach it the smallest.

But all this has a little attitude towards real reality, because at regular Chinese tires with the apocryphal title GiticoMFort 228 (dimension 215 / 55R16) can not be any storage of speech. Remember, I wrote at the beginning that I broke the wheel? So, I broke through it on the first moving through the tram rails. And I will not say that the speed was high.

Probably, GiticoMFort is made of waste industry waste, and well, if at all tire! There were also saved on the composition of rubber (with minimal braking on the asphalt there is a fatty strainer), on cord threads, on the bracket thickness. The clutch even on dry asphalt is minimal, and on a wet ride turns into a game for survival. The sidewalls are climbing in the most innocuous turns, leads are immensely high. Naturally, the strength of the sidewall does not leave a chance on the urban off-road, the tires simply pierces. Even an increase in pressure up to 2.5-2.7 bars helps not much, although, of course, the machine stabilizes. But at the expense of comfort.

Obviously, with such wheels there is no point in talking about the nuances of manageability of Emgrand. At what point, the slip will begin, how intensively it will develop on the GitICoMFort tires for anything you can not guess.

There is another limiting factor: the hyperproductiveness of the power steering. It is so hyper that the steering wheel does not give feedback at all. And I do not need to blame me in the tendency to categorical estimates: Exactly that is the case! Completely empty zero, no return reaction to the taxi. As in a cheap computer simulator. And, which is characteristic, in the representation about this problem, they know, knew from the very beginning, before the start of sales of Emgrand in Russia. Such knowledge to acquire is easy, it is enough to read the Ukrainian forums of the owners of Geely Emgrand in Ukraine the model is sold for almost a year.

This bunch of an empty steering wheel plus bad tires and makes Emgrand affordable to any tests for stability and handling. It is annoying, because both is quite simple to fix. But the Chinese, knowing about problems, continue the policy of non-interference in the design.

Motor on the declared 126 hp is not lucky, partly this feeling is inspired by the most environmentally friendly gear ratios in the transmission. For dynamic ride, the gas pedal must be stupid in the floor, no intermediate positions are used. And anyway, the crankshaft is spinning with Lenza, as if the Chinese inserted a gum between the pedal and the throttle, and she pulls out all the time, slightly covering the throttle. It would be possible to suspect designers in a not very thorough setting of E-gas, but the paradox is that the Emgrand has a mechanical drive remained.

And he, as is known, not only does not need fine tuning, but also poorly correlated with Euro-4 standards, which is certified by Emgrand. Unfortunately, the full cycle of tests according to the Euro-4 standard (including a resource test for 80,000 km) in Russia is not carried out, by satisfying the results of European tests. And it is possible that Geely supplies several other configurations to Europe ...

Now a few more private, briefly.

UMGRAND has a kind of aerodynamics: every dirt is suitable for the rear window, and it quickly ceases to be transparent. In the hatchback, it is clear and forgiven, but the same sedan, it is not formed to attach the back janitor. And I want.

The opening button of the trunk is located in such a place and has such a high sensitivity that it is often tight with the left knee when the car is released.

There is no low-light indicator on the instrument panel, there is only a feet of running lights. As it came out, it has the same symbol as the Middle Light on all other cars image of headlights with several oblique screenshots. It is completely disorient: it is not clear which light is incorporated at the moment. It would be possible not to bathe and use the car regime, but it works not very well, even in tunnels including headlights.

The gear shift drive is completely amazing: minimum moves, complete understandability and transparency in effort. I don't even want to remove the arm with the lever.
        
So.
Emgrand did not become a clear car for me. He, as a girl who seems to be not against, but today she has critical days. The application is not bad, the quality of manufacture in Geely is clearly growing, but the chassis is preparing the chassis makes it possible to show all its potential. There will be a motion for the benefit for the benefit (even if even at the chip tuning level), and I have already written about the steering and tire.

It would also be reduced blue backlights, but it is already a maximum program.
    
Technical Specifications Geely Emgrand
Total Length: 4635 mm
Total width: 1789 mm
Total height: 1470 mm
Wheel base: 2650 mm
Clearance: 167 mm
Mass: 1355 kg
Drive: Front
Engine: Inline 4-cylinder, 1.8 liter volume, maximum power 126 hp
Transmission: 5-speed Mechanical PPC
Consumption in the city: 6.5 liters per 100 km.
Price test model: 539 000 rubles

Sergey Tsyganov

Source: Drom.ru.