Test Drive Seat Toledo 1999 - 2004 Sedan

Opening "Toledo"

The new Seat Toledo on the fourth-generation golf platform debuted exactly a year ago, in the fall of 1998. Produced with a body of a four-door sedan in Stella, Sport, Signum and V5. The gamma engines includes three gasoline - 1.6; 1.8; 2.3 liters and two options for 1.9-liter turbodiesel (90 and 110 l.). Gearboxes - five-speed mechanical. With motors 1.6; 1.8 may also be installed four-step automata.
 



Saturday Barcelona met thirty-per-degree heat. On the deserted dawn of the Central Office of the Seat in the industrial area of \u200b\u200bthe Franco Zone, I was patiently waited for a new one with a Toledo challenge. Moreover, the most powerful one is in the configuration V5.
 
Okay, the tailored car liked immediately: the physiognomy is stylish, but without excesses, the sixteen-tires of Michelin Pilot HX tires unobtrusively hint at a good charge. And the wealth of the interior will give odds to many rivals even a higher class: luxurious cream leather and suede, electric drives and all, cruise and climate controls, flightcomputer, the most powerful audio system with a sixdiscla chenger, four airbags and many invisible electronic systems designed to alleviate Life driver. Among them are ABS, a tract control, EDS - electronic blocking of differential, a rotor-moving axle wheel, EBV - emergency braking amplifier; MSR is a system that prevents blocking drive wheels with a sharp transition to reduced transmission. For an additional fee, even navigation and stabilization systems can be installed. In short, only the helicopter is cooler. And then not everyone.
 
The question where to go, did not occur - of course, in Toledo! - The city with a two-thousandst history, in the past - the capital of Spain. Roman circus and aqueducts, Alcazar and the Gate of the Sun - here every stone breathes with antiquity. Why there are Romans, still long before them there was a settlement of Iberians, which gave birth to the city - Toltum.
 
However, the time has already been three o'clock in the afternoon, and to Toledo it is necessary to dismiss the seven hundred versts and preferably lazy. In a good pace, I leave Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe good city is familiar. A7 motorway, then turn on A2 - forward, forward! The speed on a paid road is limited to 120 km / h, and yet many are going much faster. I accelerate and I am a stopping engine simply asks for gas.
 
In general, the motor is a separate song: five cylinders, a configuration that obtained the designation VR, that is, the V-shaped, but with a small corner of the collapse, made in one block, as in line (from here R). At the same time, the tractor is perfectly balanced and quiet to the impossible - a couple of times, with unusual not to hear the engine, joined it with a troggy.
 
In general, the dispersed, pretty - three hundred kilometers to Zaragoza flew in less than two hours. Next, turn to Madrid to the usual free road, the quality is not worse than the highway. Milometers after seventy went mountains, I dropped the speed - and immediately went around some Saab. Well, I think, if you can go fast, then why am I not? This is where the American slides began - up and down, right-left. The car seems to stick to the road, it often listens to the steering wheel, almost does not roll and absolutely does not squeeze tires even in complex turns - it seems that I did not fit the limit modes and closely, although the remaining behind the Saab soon disappeared in the rearview mirror.
 
Madrid walked around the district, although he understood that he was losing much. Last jerk - and at nine evenings enter Toledo. Skipping modern suburbs ... and I get into the Middle Ages. Okay, we'll figure it out tomorrow, today I will squeeze as a lemon - in Moscow, it is already midnight, and in the morning there were three hundred kilometers through Pyrenees.
In the morning I carry out a mandatory program - on a secluded shady platform, two hours picky the car. Road clearance is a modest - only 120 mm, but a small look of the trunk is impressive - almost the right parallelpiped volume in the grainometer. And this is despite the fact that under its floor there are a full spareside and a basket with a tool. However, and here everything has to pay - a high trunk noticeably limits the visibility back.
 
Seat moderate hard, with advanced side support. For the front five electrical adjustments with huge ranges, and the driver even has a memory for three options for tuning. In length and height, the steering column is adjustable (this time still mechanically). It seems that the person of any dimensions here can be comfortable enough. It was pleasantly surprised by the salon - with his 180 cm of growth, sitting on what is called, for himself, intended for about 8 cm of free space in front of his knees. This is all the more unexpectedly that the platform donor Golf IV rear passengers does not pampery. For order, we note: compared with the predecessor, the new Toledo has become longer by 119 mm and wider by 78 mm.
 
Well, now, forward, at the assault of the citadel - in other words, you won't call sinking on the two-meter width of the streets in the historic part of the city located on the steep hill. Once it came across even a half-one-memerary ... It was not a street, but just a rustier between houses. Lord, how can people go? On the ancient squares size of the room, visitors of miniature cafes calmly moved their tables to give me to drive. At the same time, I did not violate anything, movement is really allowed here! Surprisingly, the outer mirrors and paint on board remained intact. Thanks to Seat, he turned out to be a fairly helply car, and the rounded nose fit into the most unthinkable turns in millimeters from the stone walls.
 
With such as streets I got to the inconspicuous gate of Alfonso VI, built in the years in the century, to the most beautiful Cedral - the 92-meter Cathedral laid in 1226. However, there were less extreme routes, for example, to Alcasaru - towering over the city of the Royal Fortress-Palace of the XIII century, Arsenal, and now the Museum of the Army. Around the latter in numerous shops sell something that was toledo, swords and swords, crossbows and pistols, shields and armor.
 
Overcoming the daytime of the day, I moved to the outcome of the day, and on another beach, I completely accidentally found a luxurious viewing platform - a high hill, from which I am visible, like on the palm, the whole city. Surprisingly, but asphalt seat this stony slide defeated without difficulty. Well, it's time to put the point. Tomorrow morning I will leave Toledo old, and in the evening I spread goodbye to Toledo. The first just fascinated me, but the second ... And on the second I would like to come here again.

 

+ Traffic Motor, Good Resistance on the Road, Excellent Noise Isolation, Spacious, Ornate and Carefully Disted Salon, Wide Sites Adjustment Ranges, Big Trunk

- Small ground clearance, small right mirror, limited overview through an inner mirror due to a high trunk, miniature glove.
 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
General data: Number of places - 5; Curb mass - 1303 kg; Full weight - 1805 kg; Maximum speed - 216 km / h; overclocking time up to 100 km / h - 9.2 s; fuel consumption in conditional country and urban cycles - 7.2; 13.2 l / 100 km; Fuel supply - 55 l; Fuel - unleaded gasoline AI-95. Dimensions, mm: Length - 4439; width - 1742; Height - 1436; base - 2513; Pitch in front / rear - 1513/1493; Road clearance - 120; The volume of the trunk is 500 l; Radius of rotation - 5.6 m. Engine: five-cylinder, V-shaped, with an angle of collapse of cylinders 15 (VR5), with a distributed injection, located in front of the cross; working volume - 2324 CMZ; cylinder diameter and piston stroke - 81.0x90.2 mm; compression ratio - 10.1; Power - 110 kW / 150 liters. with. at 5700 rpm; Maximum torque - 205 NM at 3200 rpm. Transmission: Drive on the front wheels; gearbox - mechanical five-speed; Transmission numbers: I - 3.30; II - 1.94; III - 1.31; IV - 1.03; V - 0.84; s. NS. - 3.06; Main gear - 3.94. Suspension: with transverse stability stabilizers, in front - independent type Mac-Fersson, is collected on the subframe, behind the longitudinal levers associated with an elastic transverse beam. Brakes: hydraulic disk, with vacuum amplifier and ABS, front - ventilated. Steering: Rack with amplifier. Tire size: 205/55R16.
 

SUMMARY
Seat Toledo - stylish and comfortable for the frontal trips, comfortable and practical for everyday ride, powerful and fast to drive along the highway.
 
Yuri Nileyov. Photo by the author
 
 
 
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"