Skoda Roomster test drive since 2006 -

All photos of Skoda Roomster since 2006

Square meters

Participants in this test show different views on a practical car. How did the manufacturers display the size of high bodies?
Chevrolet Rezzo
Presented in 2001 under the name Daewoo Takum. After the minimum changes, it was renamed the Chevrolet Retzo.
Engines: gasoline 1.6 liters (90 hp) and 2.0 l (107 and 121 hp).
Gearbox: 5-speed mechanical.
Complex: Two options.
Price: $ 17 19017 990.

Fiat Doblo
The car made his debut in his homeland in 2000, in Russia is sold in the passenger version of the panorama.
Engine: in Russia only gasoline 1.4 liters (77 hp).
Gearbox: 5-speed mechanical.
Complete: Base, Classic, Comfort.
Price: 430 000485 000 rub.
($ 16,50018 600).

Skoda Roomster
The model is presented at a car dealership in Geneva in the spring of 2006, in Russia since the fall of 2006.
Engines: gasoline 1.21.6 liters (64105 hp), diesel 1.4 and 1.9 liters (69 and 105 hp).
Gearboxes: 5-speed mechanical, 6-speed automatic (only 1.6 l).
Complete: Base, Style, Sport, Comfort.
Price: $ 15 49024 890.

Pragmatists always want more. Give them a car on which they take the children to school with comfort, and buy the provisions for a month in advance, and, if necessary, load something much larger than the portfolio. Manufacturers in response offer practical universal cars as different as the goals for which they are intended. What to choose: High station wagon Skoda Rumster? Small mini-wen chevrole-ratso? Or is a cargo-passenger fiat-applied?
The name obliges

Here is a representative of a detachment of mini-wenes and a typical model of the Korean automobile industry of the late 90s of the twentieth century. Let's go further, in the next hall we are waiting for more remarkable exhibits, if there were a World Museum of Automobile achievements, then Rezo definitely did not shine in the center of the exhibition, and guides are unlikely to find more words for him. The model appeared under the brand of DEU. But it was worth joining the Chevrolet game, the car began to be actively offered in Russia under the name Reakso. Recently, his large -sized assembly was established in Kaliningrad.
Frankly, the Chevrolet brand is associated with completely different machines for me: a different appearance, other sounds. The formidable staccato of the 8-cylinder corvette, the tacho all-around tacho tall with the bus obliges the name!

Alas, Reatszo is similar to overseas namesakes, except for plastic, which even popular American models could never boast of. But most of all, the interior recalled Shevi-Niva. The same amorphous contours of the panels, shapeless seats, mediocre fitting of details and what, are there any cheaper mini-wen on the market? The colleague was ugly. And also, look, the back is full of space, the seat is taken completely or in parts. That's right, in this reatszo will really give a head start to many. But it is worth moving to the driver's place, you understand: the audience with growth above the average for this model is lost. The spaciousness in the rear seat is reached with rigid measures: the front seats were shifted close to the steering wheel, so with a height of 181 cm I barely had enough space to get comfortable. Maybe the impressions will change on the go?
Alas! For the first time, the driver who settles in the reatszo looks like yesterday's graduate of a driving school: the gaze is mowed onto the gear lever, and his arm clushing his borsch in a pan. Of course, you are gradually getting used to such a box, but driving does not become more pleasant.

We solve another problem: how to accelerate to 100 km/h for the promised 12.2 s? There are suspicions that the value is taken by dealers from the European version, the declared capacity of which is 17 forces more. Our reatszo was left under the hood 90. Unfortunately, the weather did not allow confirming the guess of measurement, but I boldly affirm the exposure of the chevrolet does not shine. He is very unhurried, despite the annoying rumble of the motor. The engine could smooth out the impression of traction (after all, the volume of 1.6 liters), but this did not happen either. The peak of torque falls at 4200 rpm, and here the maximum power is not far on a tachometer of 5000 rpm. Then it is pointless to twist the motor, it sources, without waiting for a limiter, and, by the way, finally destroys acoustic comfort.
Relaxo and cool turn not like. If under the wheels of an asphalt of medium -sized quality, the steering wheel beats in the hands, passing knocks and vibrations from the steering rack. The only thing the car pleased with the smoothness of the move. For distant unhurried trips just right.
A gloomy picture, I thought, returning along the highway near Moscow to the city. Finally, the image of the buyer Reatszo loomed: the non -impedeal, middle -aged and average prosperity. Economic, leisurely, economical. And never even dreamed of a corvet or taho
They are not looking for good from good?

The fate of Fiat in Russia cannot be called cloudless. At least until recently, when the company began to recover after a protracted crisis, and in our country its cars once again decided to do seriously. Good has already been sold with us even in troubled times. But the current car is not quite the same that was offered before. The model is delivered in a more powerful version with a 1.4 -l engine with a capacity of 77 hp.
When you look at Dobl from behind or three quarters, it is impossible to get rid of freight associations. By the way, in their homeland, among almost three dozen modifications, freights are especially popular. We have three accessories of the passenger version of the panorama.
I open the door, jump into the salon: quite a pretty and original front panel, the controls are unpretentious, but are conveniently located. Well, for shopping? Acceleration is given no easier than reatszo, but it is more pleasant to control the fiat. Not least thanks to a short lever of a 5-speed box on the cast of a console.

Before my eyes, a huge, almost vertical windshield, and a comfortable shelf was placed between it and the ceiling. You sit high, you study the situation through the bus ears of mirrors. But the first claims to be visibility. Access to the trunk opens a double -winging door with different -made wings. In raw weather, Kindly throws the stern with mud, fights with which the only janitor on a greater sash.
According to the declared maximum speed, the fiat is inferior to the Chevrolet almost 20 km/h, but the car is quite comfortable and obedient up to the same mark as the reatszo. More than 130 km/h (polygon regime!) It is unpleasant to go. At reasonable speeds, the wind only sometimes pumps a tall body, but does not knock down from the course. The main thing is not to disrupt good from the trajectory yourself! The steering wheel is sensitive, and the responses are fast.

So, on Fiat you can go on a long journey? Better by the company: an unloaded machine is distinguished by mediocre smoothness. We looked under the bottom: it is, the rear suspension is spring. There is no need to count on a quick passage of turns. But, if we take into account the height of the body, everything is not so bad! Fiat demonstrates a classic front -wheel drive in nature, although it floats out of the gas out of the turn quite early, and the body is pretty fragmented.
For a minute, we seem to be going for shopping! Here is a discipline in which there is no equal: a huge luggage compartment with an even flat floor, low loading height and open on 180 doors. The dreamer's dream! It is not difficult to increase the trunk, throwing the rear sofa forward, then up to 3 cubic meters of cargo climbs into the body.
Licking doors open access to passenger places. I step over the wide threshold and recall the London Kab: in the cylinder, only a basketball player will not be sought out here. Three adults are enough in the width of the seat, but the central freedom limits the central tunnel.
But the feeling that the truck, although very ocular, still does not disappear. Lifts, massive doors, shaking, especially noticeable at the back of the van is more expensive, put the point in the dispute on the sink!
HOUSING PROBLEM

Available housing to a young family! This state program is designed to solve almost the most sick Russian issue. Even many -month -old lines for very expensive cars explain the fact that people desperately accumulated to the apartment. For many, the car is really the second house. It was this philosophy that the developers of Skoda-Rumster laid in their brainchild.
I remember that in the Czech Republic (ZR, 2006, No. 6), Rumster and I were literally not given the aisle at every traffic light. In Russia, the reaction can be noticeably cooler, it can be a season in the season?
And I like it here. Planting is car, while driving is convenient for the driver tall even in two meters. Moreover, the legs for the legs are enough. Sorry, the salon is slightly narrow. But, judging by the options for transformation, Rumster was conceived as an apartment for four. Although the rear sofa is divided into three parts: each moves back and forth by 150 mm, and the backs can be tilted to 13.5. The seats are taken out of the cabin, and even easier than in the reatszo. In full layer, the trunk volume reaches the impressive 1780 liters, but Skode Fiat does not beat Fiat. We take out the crown number of the Rumster out of the cabin the middle section of the sofa, now we move the remaining sides now in the rear passengers almost like in a business class! Although broad -shouldered citizens are closer to each other than expected.

In the Czech Republic, the suspension seemed to me collected and quite comfortable. When he made his way along the beads scored by Moscow alleys, there were other impressions. The car metroly counted the patch on the asphalt. While cars are exported to Russia unchanged; Perhaps later a package for bad roads will appear, and Rumster will become more comfortable.
But it is a pleasure to manage it after Reatszo and Kind. The selectivity of the box is magnificent, it is impossible to allow the mistakes. The steering wheel is convenient and responsive, the behavior of the car is equally predictable for both 100 and 150 km/h. Only the long-term clutch pedal and the annoying sound of a 1.4-liter motor at high speeds are slightly strained.
Alas, apartments are now roads. Even small -sized and wheels. The test Rumster, stuffed with options for the eyeballs, pulled it on a very solid amount.
So what to choose? The solution greatly depends on the requirements! Someone and quality of the finish are especially important for someone, more importantly more areas (or cubic meters), and someone will be just glad of a separate, albeit non-casual apartment for an affordable amount. What is closer to you?

Mikhail Gzovsky: If comfort, controllability and you agree to pay in full look at the Rumster. Rezzo will save the family budget, but they will appreciate those for whom the car is not only moving, but also earnings.
Chevrolet Rezzo is one of the most inexpensive mini-wen on the market. Payment of obsolete design and mediocre sedentary qualities.
General assessment 7.7
+ Large road clearance, good smoothness and transformation possibilities.
- Low selectivity of the box, small adjustment of the driver's seat in length, unimportant visibility, modest dynamics.

Fiat Doblo is primarily a split, not a family machine. The design and ergonomics are issued cargo genealogy.
General assessment 7.9
+ A huge and comfortable trunk, a spacious rear sofa.
- lack of ABS, cargo controllability, average smoothness in an unloaded state, specific ergonomics.

Skoda Roomster is an original view of a home and family car with an unusual design, compact dimensions and a spacious interior for four.
General assessment 8.2
+ The clear work of the gearbox, convenient seats, good handling, high quality of the interior decoration, a rich selection of options.
- A rather stiff suspension, the rear sofa is convenient only for two adults.