Skoda Roomster test drive since 2010 Minivan
The case is young
Give Nikolai Fomenko - to the successors of the president! Well, or at least in the receivers of the deputy prime minister. It’s not even that the editor -in -chief of the autopilot deserves and deserved. So far, some state men are going to spend half the gold and foreign exchange reserves of our country to provide every young family with an apartment, children and happiness, the editor -in -chief of the autopilot found a much simpler and more economical option. So, the car Skoda Roomster - for those who spoil the apartment question. Again in childhood. In the city of Leningrad, where I spent a barefoot childhood, put on in licensed Adidas adolescence, and in high Cossacks youth, there were one or two Skoda. Maybe, of course, more, but I met these regularly and recognized them by numbers, body colors and drivers. These Skoda Garde looked absolutely like Intourist units. Real capitalism on wheels. Now, having met them on the road, I would think that this is the next dead experiment of the Izhevsk factory, which dragged on some new ode. ODU to the late domestic auto industry.
So one day, in the seventh class, I met the third Skoda in the city of Leningrad. Someone later told me that it was the 105th model. I am fully admitted. She seemed huge to me. In general, I decided that this was a government car, because it was, firstly, black, and secondly, a driver in a cap was sitting at the wheel. And between the cap and the ceiling there was a space for another two heads in caps. And it struck me. So much so that it still holds in my head. Skoda Roomster is a worthy member of the Volkswagen People's Family. Including security. Of the crash tests conducted according to the EURONCAP method, Roomster came out with a highly raised and hung with crosses (that is, stars). The car received the maximum five stars and 34 points for the safety of passengers. One score was removed due to the not entirely successful front panel design, which, in the event of an accident, can inflict easy hips to the driver and passenger.
Rum Service. Let's say that this was the 105th model. So that Skoda - no matter how much it has called - in my opinion, there was a forerunner not only Roomster, but also of all modern single -combatants and SUV. Of course, against the background of modern cars, it looks wretched, like some chisel against the background of PC. But the idea of \u200b\u200ba huge internal space, the idea of \u200b\u200bhigh ceilings - as in the Stalinsky house - came to us from the very Skoda. When I sat in Roomster, I realized: the Czechs did not forget anything. They all remember. And they want to return to those times when the caps and ceilings were tall. The Skoda Roomster car costs $ 20 thousand with a little. And the devil knows him, but I think this is his price. In Roomster, everything you need is. The car was divided into two rooms, two rums. One is for a driver with a friend. The other is for the rear passengers. The back room is most likely children's. The main thing is that both rums are made without stupidity. And finished expensive, really and diligence. It has all the furniture in the field, and the full set of amenities, and the materials are selected, as for yourself.
The seats are excellent, even with a hint of lateral support. Climate control-however, in the car for that kind of money! A good radio that reads both CD and MP3 (by the way, for some reason, in expensive MP3 cars, for some reason is not in honor, it is held there for some plebeian format) with control under the wheel. And these wave -shaped side pockets, and a glove compartment, and a cooling box. And the panoramic roof is a European chic, a high option in every sense. Helping at least to remember Kant, that is, to break away from the bowl and look into the starry sky above his head. The authors of the car were one hundred percent family people. They thought about both parents and children. Children are complete freedom in the car. In Roomster, unlike Getz, for example, they will not put their feet on the shoulders of dad with mom. In short, everything is fine inside. Five-Roomster Service service. I would not order this machine too many options. In it, everything is on the case. The tuning of this machine does not make sense at all. Well, unless you want to give this car for full pumping. Say, want to cut the car in half, remove the top and make from Roomster Maranello. Of course, there will be craftsmen who, with joy and with the words why pay 300 thousand, we will take up such a project for the top ten no worse. But this is absurd. There is no need to change anything in Roomster. As soon as our hands climb into such a car - it will die.
With a lateral collision, the car showed itself from the best side. For the safety of the child in the salon, Roomster has four of five possible stars. For the safety of pedestrians in the event of a collision - only two stars out of four possible.
Motorists and automobile journalists of the former Russian patrimony - Finland - accepted Roomster in the highest category. Every year, Tuulilasi magazine with an overwhelming majority vote recognized Skoda Roomster the best 2007 car.
Road satisfaction. I can’t, I do not want and will not scold the car for her behavior on the road. By behavior, she is a satisfactory, or maybe even a good woman. The first impression, of course, is deceptive. But at first you are sure: Roomster will turn over how to give it to drink. And turn the rain - and you are not, you were washed away. However, the apocalypse is only in theory. In practice - everything is quite worthy. With such a design, the car seemed to be lying on the left-to right. However, Roomster is controlled decently for his body. It is quite safe. He is not rolling, he is not thoughtful, he enters the bend not in three receptions, but is recorded immediately. Of course, you will not rush in such a car as stung, although there is some light provocation. And some drivership liberties, sometimes, when you are alone in the salon, you can afford. Here, quite fierce for such a motor and a suspension for this design. This suspension is real, Volkswagenovskaya - that’s the whole secret.
Obviously, German migrant workers also worked on this project. Their hand is felt in everything. There is nothing in the car, for so that it could be smashed into pieces. It is balanced, and such a balance is just able to deliver a buzz to the driver. HONEY. Roomster is a family car. Without any doubts. But this car is not for a family with great experience, where the husband and wife are already spaced at different poles of the marriage bed and where Freudian reservations such as bastard, you distorted me all your life every day. The family with an experience of one car is contraindicated. It’s otherwise to be trouble. She will rape his brain, he will rape the motor. In the end, he will overturn the car so that both her and the mother -in -law are more difficult for the lamppost.
Roomster is a car for a young family. They graduated from the university six years ago. Now they do not work together, but they are very interested in what is happening there. He goes to fitness, because she likes him fit and without a tummy. And she is good for now and without fitness. He calls her bunny. She is his navel. Or - Crops. She spreads the oil on a bun and feeds him from his hands while he drives the car. They take turns taking children from the garden and school. In turn, they wash the dishes. They sing in two voices under the guitar. They have a complete idyll. They are the ideal of Zurabov and Medvedev. And I would also call Roomster a Zurabov machine. Roomster is a family machine both in shape and spirit. In this car, it is good and appropriate to go to three families to relax on the shore of the Klyazminsky reservoir. But the girl cannot be planted in her. And you don’t want to, if such a conversation went. There are other cars for girls where they need them and where they are with pleasure. There are cars that immediately work for violation of family values. In the morning, we kind of take a family on it, and in the evening we’ll plant someone once. And forward - along Road to Hell. On the highway E-95. With Roomster are there such liberties? Yes, in no case! The car, as it were, says: not a bully! Decided to dart into the boy? Are you out of your mind? Come on the march in the store for groceries.
31 votes were given for the car. In the final, 11 out of 150 tested models were presented. Roomster also took the prize place following the results of voting in Sweden. Motorforaren journalists gave him 11 votes. Skoda Roomster Scout - version of the Roomster car, second representative of the SCOUT sports family. The first was Octavia Scout. Compared to the base version of SCOUT is larger (4219 x 1695 x 1650 mm). This option is equipped with a choice: gasoline engines with a volume of 1.4 and 1.6 liters or turbodiesels with a volume of 1.4 and 1.9 liters. Outwardly, SCUT is distinguished by protective thresholds around the body, new bumpers, silver overlays that simulate the protection of the body of the body, the extended arches of the wheels and wheels of a larger diameter. SCOUT cost special 6.5J X 16 discs and low -profile tires 205/45 R16 developed for it.
Roomster is a family machine in a global sense. For our young family, that we described so beautifully here, Roomster, of course, is an intermediate option. It is like a living space that they have today, but which they will certainly change. This living space, which
they recently bought, repaired and furnished, an intermediate stage on the way to a large nest. Our young people are already looking at their own home. But for now, they are content with small. And while Roomster are content, although they look in: it is not new, but Touareg, she is on Audi A4. Family will manifest itself that these people will remain faithful to Volkswagen products. They and Skoda will switch to Volkswagen, then to Audi. But whatever model they choose, they will remain in the family of a folk manufacturer. Because after years they will carry these sensations from driving a certain platform. These sensations will remain, love and become a habit. And these people will never ride Maranello or Carrera, even if they can afford their purchase. Here is such a story. It is only a pity that the young family will cease to be such over time. And Freudian reservations will climb out with terrible force. Do you love me, honey? - Well, why do you want to start the day with a scandal again? 
At the wheel: yes, for sure. This is what I experienced for the first time finding myself behind the wheel of Rumster: a sense of security. It arises, since the front panel is made in a monumental German style, and the lateral glass is not too large. This is the fault of this is the high waist line of the cabin of the pilots with a bully bend in the corner of the driver's door. Although this smoothed angle outside looks very impressive, from the inside it is already perceived as a kind of disharmony - the door frame is actually rectangular. It was as if the unexpected course of the exterior designers was stunned by the creators of the salon, and they failed to find an adequate solution ... Lenta.ru: I have no children yet. There are no wife either, but I already understand everything. Or maybe I just remember everything well. I remember the feeling of little family happiness. In order for it to arise, you can do anything, the main thing - together, with the whole family. Together to go shopping, delve together in the garden, clean the apartment, blow firecrackers ... and even better - go on a trip. Either far, far, or not very. For example, to the country. Our nine had one characteristic feature - she constantly forced us to look for compromises. For example, this: a bicycle, or a grandmother .... But it was then, in the late 80s and in the early 90s. Then real cars appeared for young families ... And in general, the market segment has been saturated - you can choose all shapes and sizes from the microvoans: Renault Modus, Nissan Note, Opel Meriva ... And now also Skoda Roomster.
Autonews.ru: No, after all, the name Roomster is not entirely accurate for this car, or rather, this is a reduction. There is such a fairy tale about the mushroom under which the animals from the rain hid, and no matter how many animals of the creatures did not climb under it, the place was all. So the bowels of the new Skoda, just like that mushroom, will contain everything that you can’t throw there. So we would call the Mushroomer car. Five passengers and all their baggage will be freely accommodated in this car-even when all five passenger seats are occupied, 450-530 liters (depending on the configuration) of free space for things are still in the trunk. The maximum volume of the luggage compartment (if you leave only two seats - driver and passenger) - 1780 liters.
Gazeta.ru: There is such a thing in the Czech Republic - cut beer: they take dark beer and pour light into a glass to the knife - it turns out that beer lies in layers, but at the same time they are not mixed. According to the same recipe, Skoda Roomster was also made: the back of the first generation Octavia was welded to the front of the floor from Fabia. The original idea did not appear from a good life. To make a new platform for Roomster was too expensive, so they decided to sculpt from what was, although the idea of \u200b\u200bcombining two different things was laid down in this project, even when it was only on paper. Komsomolskaya Truth: The closer you get acquainted with the Rumster, the more you like him. Ah, how I wanted to quickly look at night Moscow through a glass panoramic roof! On the road, the car shown simply miracles of controllability: turns cheerfully and briskly accelerates. True, the engine is a little noisy. As soon as the arrow of the tachometer exceeds 3 thousand revolutions per minute, as a barely audible rumbling of the motor is replaced by a clear growl. I was pleased with the suspension. A section of the road, a tuberous, like a washing board, was passed on the move, and the speed did not have to be reduced. Nevertheless, quite serious obstacles, such as bedridden policemen from asphalt, are not recommended to overcome at a speed of more than 20 km/h - exactly catch the bottom.
Autonavigator.ru: Many people, choosing a car, want it to be practical and convenient first of all. This is understandable - not for everyone a car is a pleasure or a hobby, namely a workhorse, which brings it to the store, and every belongings will help to transfer, and will take out the whole family with luggles. Supporting moments in choosing a car are also price and reliability - I don’t want to often lay out significant amounts for repairs ... It is a pity that there are not so many models that meet all the current requirements of family motorists ... Going on the occasion of fashion, trendy of time , and just the desires of European motorists, the Czech company Skoda about a year ago launched a universal, but at the same time a fervent and original car - Roomster. The little car really turned out to be interesting, it is a pity that so far he has not found very many fans in Russia. Skoda Roomster
Gasoline engine, 4-cylinder
Working volume (cubic cub) 1598
Power (L. S. at about/min) 105 at 5600
Moment (nm at rpm) 153 at 3800
Front drive
Gearbox 6-st. Automatic transmission
Length/width/height (mm) 4205/1685/1605
Equipped mass (kg) 1695
Maximum speed (km/h) 184
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 12.1
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 7.5
Price in Moscow $ 21,790
We thank for help in organizing the shooting of Skoda (495) 730-66-07 and the Russian Automobile Federation.
Text Nikolay Fomenko
Photo Andrey Danilov
Source: "Autopilot"
