Test drive Volkswagen Golf Plus 2005 - 2008 hatchback

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The day also turned out to be that: in the morning to get to work, for lunch at the embassy for a visa, then at the airport, get sick on the plane for three hours, shake down in the train for another half an hour, transfer it to high -speed express, prose three hundred kilometers, finally get a test machine and get a test machine and finally. Frank four more hundred on it.
Fortunately, it was the right German car Volkswagen Golf, more precisely, a plus in which everything where it should be, and where you will find any button with tied eyes the creative finds of the Columbus from ergonomics, so frequent on other machines, I would have stolen that evening that evening. .
And so sat down and drove, as if for the hundredth time, and not for the first time you see a car. To moderately hard profiled chairs with many adjustments and two pneumatic pounds in the back, a short lever of a clear gearbox, intelligible devices, an extremely clear two-zone climate control, soft expensive plastic panel here suits me here!
Ugh, you jinxed his foot painfully hit the hard casing of the steering column! Rubbing my knee, I go through in the chair, evaluating the landing: what, a good compromise, with all its minivan verticality, you do not feel on the stool. And you can sit behind, throwing your feet on your foot. Although the central tunnel could be smaller.
However, interest in the car is mainly caused by a two -liter gasoline FSI series with direct fuel injection into the cylinders by the most powerful of those that will supply to Russia; During the plus presentation (ZR, 2005, No. 4), it was not possible to get acquainted with him. We must pay tribute, the motor is good, and a hundred horses playfully carry a rather heavy golf plus. Rush from the traffic light with a slip? Easily! Up to hundreds of only 9.2 seconds.
Indulging the lazy driver, accelerate in the first-third-fifth mode? Take around the city in IV gear, almost without switching? And this is possible thanks to the excellent elasticity of the motor and the moment of 200 N.M. Keep 150 km/h on an autobahn? Not a question at all! In the cabin, silence, under the pedal a good stock, which, if necessary, allows even to take a protracted rise without losing speed or accelerate the speed without losing speed. But at high speed you need to be more attentive, the golf plus is quite high and sensitive to the gusts of the lateral wind.
However, a dense suspension and a balanced steering, the electric power of which increases the reactive effect with an increase in speed, simplifies the task, the machine always remains obedient and not too harsh in reviews. But a small riff on the rim of the steering wheel does not hurt. Another disadvantage appeared in the evening of the edge of the repeater of the indicator of the turns on small external mirrors is in the field of view of the driver and blinds in the dark. Well, maybe it blinds, especially in a city where there are a lot of lights, I bent, but on the dark highway this illumination is clearly superfluous.
The lively and dynamic nature of the two -liter Volkswagen allowed it easily, in one breath to rewind four hundred night kilometers. And in the future, the speedometer shooter looked more and more to the right, this motor starts, oh starts! Maybe that's why gasoline consumption was not so modest 10.1 l/100 km. Although the factory characteristics promise only 6.6 liters on the highway, but if not pedaling, stay in economical mode. Okay, there will still be time to clarify, because in the fall, the car will begin to be sold in Russia. Not to say that cheap from 22 thousand dollars, but a plus is worth it.
Volkswagen Golf Plus
A five-seater CD on the Golf platform debuted at the end of 2004. In September, the start of deliveries to Russia is expected.
Engines: gasoline 1.42.0 liters (75150 hp), turbodiesel 1.92.0 l (105140 l.).
Gearboxes: 5- and 6-speed mechanical, two options for 6-speed machines.
Complete: Trendline, Comfortline, Sportline.
Price in Russia: from $ 22,000.
Test car: 2.0 L FSI, 150 l. p., Mechanical 6-speed gearbox, Comfortline equipment, $ 24,000 (price for Russia).
SUMMARY
You have already acquired children, dog and cottage, but have not yet lost their youthful enthusiasm? Two-liter golf plus for you. This practical trailer can be fast.
+ Good dynamics, excellent engine elasticity, spacious interior, thoughtful ergonomics, clear work of the box.
- sensitivity to the side wind, a massive casing of the steering column, blinding turns of the turns.
 
Yuri Nechetov
   
 
 


 

Source: The magazine "Driving"