Test Drive Seat Toledo since 2004 Sedan

Matrimonial interest

Everyone temporarily idle a man dreams about the sequence with the appearance of supermodel, the intelligence of the philosopher, the diligence of the reindeer, the orality of the angel, the devotion of the mongrels and the sexual enthusiasm of pornstar. Alas, life rarely makes such gifts, forcing me to go with a dream on a compromise. You have to either cut the list of necessary advantages, or to put up with modest indicators for each individual parameter for the sake of a completely harmonious amount. But when the state of finance allows you to offer your hand and heart to a compact sedan, the selection criteria are no less diverse, and the search for the ideal is as exciting.
Despite the fact that the folk love for an isolated trunk in our latitudes is caused by a harsh need to constantly carry a stinky canister with me, a bottle for M8B1 oil and a bunch of spare chambers, today it does not allow to cool the model range of expensive modern foreign cars, whose owners seemingly , it is enough to transport credit cards if not a purse, then there is a mustache for sure. We are confident that the buyer of a car with a separate luggage volume actually dreams of a sedan with a large, as a business, and agree to the three-volume golf class it is forced only the inability to allocate for the purchase of more than 15-20 thousand sustainable monetary units. In our test, we tried to collect the most recent proposals for a person who had already staged the foot on the lower step of the Potemkin staircase leading to worldly glory, the strength and authorities of large sums. The cause of the Union with Ford Focus, Honda Civic or Seat Toledo is unlikely to be love at first glance: after all, marriage for the calculation is much more correct to success. So, you will prepare for a sober assessment, but still leave the heart a deliberative voice. The choice will not be simple because the contender, each of which came out of a noble motor assefigibility, so no longer on each other!
Focus born in Europe for the third year is very successful and sold on both sides of the Atlantic. From the point of view of appearance, the brightest and disputed car in our Trinity. Let the new facet of her design seems to be diamond, and the other will scare the sharpness of the transitions from the plane to the plane, it is obvious that this car is made by opponents of a sad utility. It is a pity that a short life is usually destined (on the background of even more crucial, they quickly lose freshness), but Focus is far from reaching the circulation, originally and, like an extreme dandy, easily stands out in the stream of cars with ironically rumped headlights. No wonder on the thresholds and rear body racks, the expensive accessories sparkle the heraldic emblems of the GHIA body workshop for $ 16750. This Focus provided ABS, two airbags, a pseudocite finish of anthracite with a gray cabin, a pseudo-shaped panel on the console, electric drives, glasses and mirrors, air conditioning and magnetic.
At first, the control buttons of these electrospheres seem chaotic scattered on the separating avant-garde fan panels of the torpedo and dashboard. Do not succumb to optical deception: in fact, everything is very convenient and accessible. Separate nodes (for example, internal door handles) are made with jewelry grace, efforts on levers and pedals are optimal, and the steering wheel is delightful. It is not too easy to understand the barcode of instrument scales and indicator lamps, but the gear shift mechanism works so tasty that the active driver will surely wanted to have such a device and at home. If it rolls melancholy, dissolve the lever and life will immediately begin to improve ... It is quite convenient for four in the cabin, and only the inhabitant of the right front armchair on fate: for some reason, for some reason he did not seek off-armrest.
However, it takes a little man driving a hand, it is much more interesting to whistle tires on the asphalt racing rings. The behavior of the Focus, which flies in a turn with a rotary motor, adequately become an example for a tutorial of good front-wheel drive manners: fast, but smooth drift under the dump of gas and no less clear return to the trajectory when the throttle is opening. At the same time, the suspension does not take out the soul on the irregularities, but allow Michelin Energy Tires reliably and very quickly lead the car on an arc even on a not very smooth coating. However, the ability of Fords to customize the chassis of both racing and serial cars is well known. And we probably would have got drunk by Focus's manageability. The next Prachny ODU, if in the barrel of honey, diligently filled with cuzers and Ford suspenders, the whole bucket of the fly did not pour it ... Engine. The twisting into the ringing was not mentioned not for the red senlee, this is the only way to make the car at least somehow move. Low noise 90-strong Zetec, especially for Russia, adapted to work on low-octane gasoline, was very sluggishly accelerated the car even on 5-6 thousand revolutions, and below 3,000 shamefully refused to pull at all. On traffic lights and country highway, Focus became easy prey ... ordinary Zhiguli! Such a blatant torque deficit can only be explained by a brain malfunction, controlling injection, especially since Focus behaved strangely and in the morning with a cold start. Therefore, we are not in a hurry to blame Fords of Motor Builders in negligence, but let's try to understand the problem with the help of the Russian representative office of Ford, which provided the car to the test.
Fans of the charismatic 160-strong Honda Civic previous (sixth) generation with amazement and distrust look at the new Japanese sedan, high and short-sounded. Motor is familiar with 1.6 VTEC. The most spacious in the classroom salon with a flat floor, where the passenger is in the back of 192 cm does not get the knees to the front chair adjusted for itself? Well, ... compact and technological racks MacPherson, who changed the double levers in front? Christmas trees ... Stylish, but unsterior exterior with lanterns of dimensions embedded in watershed headlights and turn signals, and rear lamp dischargers, who killed on the trunk lid? Longing ... wide armchairs who have weakened the grip of rollers of lateral support? This can not be because it may never be! Four-stage automatic? Go to hell! This is a gentleman's set of a law-abiding family man who is crazy about Japanese household appliances, but has not yet accumulated on Legend! Well, why does the motor, from five to eight thousand revolutions, which are capable of taking power and sound to ecstasy Formula 1 fan?! Calm, Kamikaze! Peaceful herds of respectable ordinary people who pay real money for cars, nothing to do this is your superpower. They just want to ride reliably, comfortable and economical, and the Civic VII sedan, which is done in Japan and the United States, is intended for them. And you, intense guys, sorry, forgive how much in the light? Handful ... True, and for such there is a necessary Civic hatchback Type-R, 2 liters, 200 horses. And the sedan motor, by the way, is not the same. It is VTEC II, and forces in it is not 160, but only 110 ...
However, it is felt that the Honda designers who were supported in the sport still had to do business not quite familiar. The new suspension is much softer the same, but not too comfortable on Ughab and can not keep the car from a strong vertical swing on the road waves despite the big reserve of the place above the head, with a dying ride, the backwalk of the tester was in contact with the ceiling, and not always It was possible to accurately withstand the trajectory in the rapid priese. More about manageability to say nothing honestly rolled out on the hoddler and the gifts of the Moscow region, but the test Honda in July turned out to be a hoop in the winter tires Dunlop Graspic S2002 (thanks that the unworn!), And it does not want to offend the car. Here, the capacious salon was able to be the third passenger at the back no longer have to catch the legs of the neighbors, but in the Suite-configuration machine ES there are ABS, four airbags, climate control, hatch-glass-mirrors with electric drives and even heated seats. True, transportation costs and a strong yen made a car rather expensive (for Civic ES asked $ 21800 for Civic ES) and forced the Japanese to save on trifles, let the workshops, but imitate soft plastic in the finish, abandon the armrest and the third head restraint, donate the upholstery of the trunk lid and even Adjusting the frequency of wiper wiper in the intermittent mode ...
But the motorists could not step on the throat of their own song, they simply did not come out of them, and the world once again made sure that the horsepower from Honda is an uneven rest of the rest. The unit modest for digital indicators actually has the same fantastic burner, but now in the entire range of revolutions! Quietly sinking victory song, he in response to the light promise gas pedal hurls the car forward so at ease, as if he had to take him half another than competitors. And not even the most modern automatic machine to keep this pressure! After such an embarrassment, even embarrassing about the vain attempts of the wheel of the steering wheel, fill the ram with important information or the idle picture of the front panel. It seems that here the Japanese managed to shake even the Germans with their textbook pragmatism: after all, if you already have a superemotor and the abyss of the passengers, what else to demand from the car?
Of course, we know that the Spanish Hidalgo Seat is the faithful vassal of the German Volkswagen, and the Toledo sedan flesh from the VW Bora flesh. But in the soft, rounded knowledge of the Spaniard, there is no borine of rigor. As if, being on the Mediterranean coast, the Sopkorn Schwab changed the business special equipment from Hugo Boss on Bermuda and Hawaii. That's just a look left gloomy seen, the vacation began recently ... but in the shower, then you mean the Toledo salon, the indestructible ORDNUNG reigns, at which the homeland of the winsted Basque failed to have any influence. Despite the fact that this Volkswa luxury items ..., sorry, Seat for $ 14,500 took with me to the sea only two pillows, an electrolyuk and a well-sounding radio tape recorder (even the ABS did not capture), his light beige salon creates the feeling that you They fell into the car class higher rivals. It is possible because individual elements of the torpedo, the blood-red backlight scales and symbols on the buttons are relative to it rather with Audi A3 than with Golf, and pedantry in the details (designed silicone handles on door perts, a chic folding armrest-box in the back , adjustment of the front seats in height and the scrupulous thoroughness of execution and finishing) cannot but inspire respect.
Alas, along with the names of Toledo inherited and organic lack of Golf-Bora is a lack of space for feet and knees of passengers from behind. If drove will be drove, it will have to sit behind him, and the feet from under his chair will need to be signed by hand. So this car can be considered a family only, provided that the children have not grown. But to ship and scare your saddles, this Volks ... Volks ... SEAT does not intend at all. The steering wheel and pedals are easy, the clutch and lever box is great (there is time to think whether to hurry), and the smooth coating of the Toledo racing highway is grinding methodically, thoroughly and even with some Lenza, causing remember that beer lovers Germany gives rise much more often than brothers Schumachers. But it is worthwhile to bring it to the operational space of winding and uneven suburban tracks, as it turns out that in these really close to combat conditions on Toledo it is very possible to rely! When you really need it, it will truly wave, travelers and below and upstairs, steady in one word, reliable. Let its advantages of Seat must not be present on the hood, the trunk and the steering wheel of the large letter S, and the absent there is a VW monogram, but Toledo gives the impression of an extremely harmonious product. And in Spain, the German lives in the world with himself, with his driver and passengers. However, we strongly recommend paying attention to the car with air conditioning and the ABS After all, both of these devices are added to the price of the seat of only $ 1250, and at a speed of 120 km / h, the noise of the air running into the open windows and the hatch, and the wheels of the wheels blocked in the rotation are too burdensome for Hearing and peace of hearing. Siesta so Siesta!
TOTAL? After all, they warned that to choose a compact sedan, ready to act with the same success and as a business card for business partners, and as a comfortable carrier of households, and as an invincible fighter in traffic lights and high-speed violating fights, it is not easier to meet a girl (woman, Grandma) of his dreams. The ideal is deficient, and therefore you will have to decide on our own, what the soul and wallet are inclined. Is it preferred by the exquisite road manners of extravagant Focus magic horses of the Civic engine, whether to sacrifice the friendly character of the SEAT for the living room in the back compartment of Honda? Recommendations are useless if only because no man married the girlfriends that friends advised him. And if he is married, then they will remain friends for a long time ... After all, we are so different as cars that choose.
 
Vitaly Tishchenko
Photo by Alexander Nosdrin

How do they look:
Nikita Rozanov
Outside:
If Honda Civic did not participate in the test, then from the point of view of the design, the comparison of the two remaining cars could be called a duel of reformers. Indeed, both Focus, and the new Toledo, each, but in its own way and at one time stated a fresh and original design for their firms. Thus, Focus appearance has become an uncompromising continuation of the sensational style of the New Edge (new line), debuting in 1997 (Ford KA). The new philosophy of hot and dynamic car was proclaimed by Seat was embodied in the style of the Toledo sedan and the Hatchback Leon. And the old slogan is almost Volkswagen, but for less money was quickly forgotten thanks to the original design of these machines. Another Civic case, whose appearance, in contrast to the six preceding generations of this famous model, does not shine individuality today. And it seems that the style of the car for some mysterious reason was specially muffled and impersonated.
As a result, the identification of the car does not represent problems even for the people's uninitiated in the wisdom, and after the first dating cars are easily and naturally remembered. Toledo remains in memory due to the concern of the 4-eyed optics, proudly put out the emblem and the chit felling front spoiler (this is clearly felt by the BMW spirit). Focus, on the contrary, is remembered for a mischievous look and face, sincerely expressing readiness for mutual understanding and even love. Against the background of this character and openness, the eastern face of Civic does not express anything to anything, but this is also remembered. According to the laws of the Sedanovsky genre, the lateral silhouettes of cars are steps, and that's all, with the exception of Toledo, have a fairly well-designated trunk road chest. Toledo is in the soul of an athlete, and therefore the possibility of transporting baggage is trying to hide, for excess weight boost the enemy of speed and temperament. Behind the whole triper is also easily recognized. Starting with Toledo, the sports orientation of the style of which continues to defend muscular plastic and integrated into a single spectacular block rear lights. Focus and Civic are not athletes, and therefore in the arsenal of their design there are even chrome plated overlays over license plates and quite affordable in drawing rear lights.

Results:
Honda Civic Despite the fact that the design of the car seems later, and it can reduce the number of admirers of the old Civic, its quality will have to taste those who relate to the car exclusively as to the vehicle.
Ford Focus is indisputable that sympathy for the style of the New Edge is a taste. But agree that its co-characterity is very professionally laid and disrupts the framework of compact sedans generally accepted in the patriarchal class.
Seat Toledo in the design of this car managed to combine the classic sedan canons, compactness and stylistics of a charged car with a hot character. It was difficult to do it, but, as seen from the appearance of Toledo, it is quite possible.
Inside:
The harmonious combination of outdoor design and interior decoration is not as common as it may seem at first glance. But in our test everything is right. For example, being inside Ford and looked around the dashing of the instrument panels and upholstery, the definition of a new face comes to mind, and before my eyes there is a boric face of the car, behind the wheel of which you are sitting, and sliding with a look at the mid-pass style of the Honda interior, remember it Middle-alone appearance. Toledo is also harmonious, and its guild is quite adequately expressed and the rhythm created by the two-color upholstery, and a dynamic pattern of door panels. Obviously from sports and a three-spoke steering wheel with a round of the SEAT emblem. Two other participants in the dough steered less emotional design, and four knitting needles give them a solidity of a larger car. In accordance with the laws of the declared genre, the seats are made: with the least pronounced bucket as anterior and rear at Civic, and the most relief from Toledo, where the rear passengers are also separated by a folding armrest, and for a random third fellow traveler there is a head restraint.

Results:
Honda Civic Quality and Quality Design compensate for some colorlessness of the style, and small finds, such as the vertical location of the microclimate control knob, give design originality.
Ford Focus If in a toy under the name Ka, a similar degree of style hooliganism looks like an organic addition of appearance, then in the respectable sedan, it may not seem quite appropriate.
Seat Toledo is a very high-quality and organic style, the sports tonality of which is delicately and rationally spent on the entire living space of the car.
 

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