Test Drive Hyundai XG 2003 - 2005 Sedan

Strike above belt

Koreans are able to prove their right not only with Taekwondo. Another elegant and technical type of market martial arts is updated Hyundai XG.
To three eternal Russian questions what to do?, Who is to blame? And do chicken eating hands? Added another one: what to ride? A slight increase in the welfare of the whole country and its rapid growth in individual individuals provoke to purchase cottages, a non-standard bath and a silk tie produced in the Shanghai branch of the famous couturier. To each his own. But any of our person who has missed extra money, first of all seeks to invest them in the car. Another heavy legacy of the old regime is affected when the car is a symbol of prestige and wealth - it was available to part-phase machines, elderly stakhanians and directories of the collective farm market. It is, of course, about the prestigious car, and not about a penny, bought immediately after leaving the many years of hungry fainting.
Meet the clothes. The algorithm for purchasing a car in private use is simple as Pythagore's theorem. Brand is usually determined in advance. Technical condition - based on the amount in solid currency. Preferences are given - on descending and with small variations - Mercedes, BMW, prestigious Japanese, the rest. But everyone strives to ensure that his car was the most. At least in its circle. And what are we, putting your hand on the heart, pay the most attention?
So he drove up. Big, solid. Design original, but modest. Chrome on the facing of the radiator and door handles is supplemented with thin stripes on the bumpers and side moldings. At Hyundai XG there is no corporate emblem on the front of the car - only on the hood cover and branded wheels. Single bar, a designer whim, emphasizing the individuality of the style. Styles are quite cosmopolitan, since the Korean start in XG is practically not traced - except in the unpacable diagonal front headlights closed with a transparent fairing. And the back of the car generally leads to memories of old good England - a little from Rolls Royce, a little from Rover and a little from Jaguar S-Type.
Korean block. This in our country has not yet been accepted. This is practically not interested in buying - and in vain. We are talking about active and passive security systems, without which a modern European car simply has no right to exist.
Hyundai XG is equipped with a power absorbing engine compartment. Weak, so to speak, on the front. In the case of a front impact, it consists of a special guide, and to the driver and front passenger, the shock wave is practically not sick. The exceptions are collisions with concrete obstacles at a speed of 100 km / h and above, but this is another story.
In addition to the Side Impact Bars (metal beams that enhance the front and rear doors and bringing a drunken garbage truck) Hyundai XG carries on board four airbags for the front passengers - one in front and additional seats in the backs, protecting shoulders and head. This is in passive. And in the asset, we have an electronic disabled Traction CONTROL SYSTEM (TCS), holding the car on a given trajectory in steep turns, and a combination of ABS-EBD, which competently manages the distribution of the brake force on the wheels depending on the clutch with the road.
Checked traffic police. If you are tuned to the test drive, it is forced to disappoint - there will be no drive in the article. In XG, everything is stepwise and predictable. Maximum comfort and minimum inconvenience. Overclocking and maximum speed, a 3-liter v-shaped six-liter. Low level of intricate noise in the cabin, despite the burdow-shaped rearview mirrors. Comfortable feelings in cool turns. True, we did not laid the devices, like Tommy Minkinen on the Rally Acropolis, and tried to float the highway on the highway, as it should be a car of this class and size. I agree with the traffic police inspector at the intersection of Marshal Zhukov Avenue and the streets of the national militia - once the pedal was pressed until it stops, trying to slip into a flashing green. And they would have managed, he did not show a living interest in the new car and to its dynamic qualities. The main thing is for only a hundred rubles we have received a living confirmation that the 3-liter engine River from the spot is worthy.
Some variety of car control makes the gear indication system, located on the instrument combinations, accurate between the tachometer and speedometer. It not only highlights the automatic gearbox mode - parking, drive, etc. The winking lights constantly keep you aware of what program you are currently going. When transferring a sequential box to manual mode it is useful. When moving in fully automatic mode - amuses.
Barsky spray. When our photographer bought himself a BMW 735i, the first issue of enlightened colleagues was not about power or handling in steep turns at the limiting speed - everyone interested, there is air conditioning or not and li the salon is covered. Here they are, the real criteria for assessing the quality of the car. And the choice of power at the peak of the torque - tlen and bustle fuss.
Therefore, I tested Hyundai XG not in the Dmitrov Polygon, but on our photographer. Which, being inside, began to join all the buttons and open all the boxes. The benefit of them in Hyundai a great set. First of all, this is a block of control a very decent audio system. In our case, it was a monoblock not only with a CD changer, but also with the possibility of loading one CD through the front panel.
In Hyundai XG, there are generally a lot of electronic rims - a climate control system with air filter, cruise control, trip-computer, a fashionable active steering wheel with a cruise control unit. A special delight of our test photographer was caused by folding mirrors and a near-light switching sensor, which diedfully blinked by the headlights under each overpass.
The skin on the wide seats and the tree finish also caused his approving grumbling. A separate explosion explosion caused only red stickers, signing about locking door handles. Indeed, against the background of the total luxury, Koreans could fork on something more solid.
Watch around the mind. In principle, Korean specialists did not create anything revolutionary. They carefully studied all the achievements of modern automotive and folded from them, both from the LEGO designer, a modern representative car. In which it may not be enough of some super-modern beams, like more mastic colleagues. But not all classmates are cheaper, and therefore their owners boast such a level of technical equipment. And the owner of the XG can easily bend fingers in front of their owners. And this in our world is already half of life success.
Text Nikolay Kachurin, photo Alexey Ilyin

 

A source: "Autopilot"