Test drive Chevrolet Aveo (Kalos) Sedan 2004 - 2006 sedan

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Ukraine does not yet apply to the number of leading automobile powers. Nevertheless, it does not cease to delight its buyers with world -class news. One of the last Chevrolet Aveo. The fact that the car assembled on a zaz was awarded with a branded cross says a lot. After all, General Partner General Motors does not give his sign to anyone.
Handsome Aveo
So far, only a sedan with an 83-horsepower 1.4-liter engine is made in Zaporozhye. The best of a comfortable city car with a budget engine does not affect with racing agricultural, but it complies with the norms of Euro II, in moderation is economical and very checked in a street crowding.
On the way, a version for more temperamental drivers is a five -door hatchback with an hour and a half engine with a capacity of 86 liters. With. And in the near future, the buyer will be offered the third option: a sixteen -valve unit will retain a volume of 1.4 liters, but there will be much more than 94 horses. There is a fourth, super -economic type of 1150 cm and 82 liters. With. Only it is unlikely that he will be in demand on the background of the rest, and even with us, where they prefer a quick ride.
Aveo style was developed in the company Italdephasis. Decisions in the spirit of the current fashion. So, the car was made quite high: 63 mm above the classmate Dau-Sens (ZR, 2004, No. 6). On a road lumen, this, unfortunately, was not reflected. According to our measurements (as it should be according to GOST, with a complete mass, that is, with a tank in a tank, five passengers and 50 kg of cargo in the trunk), it is even less than that of the same sensation, only 120 mm. Obviously, the car is not designed to drive on lanes, of which there is still an abundance. Although outwardly Aveo looks more passing due to spacious wheeled arches with powerful selecting, hinting at large passages. Serial wheels 175/70R13 and even allowed for installation 185/60R14 are small for such niches. Perhaps the creators only wanted to visually balance the side windows, with a high silhouette of the car, the apparent ones are too narrow. Another avant -garde bar is a very large angle between the hood and the windshield. It turned out stylishly and for aerodynamics is useful. And in combination with a high landing of the driver, it provided an excellent review, almost like in a mini-wen.
The interior leitmotif is a circle. It seems that the designers did not let out the compasses from their hands. In this company, the spherical head of the gear lever looks stylish, not old -fashioned.
The display with time indication, also rounded, is carried out from the instrument panel to the windshield. A spectacular solution, only it is not clear why, by the same time, by the clock, the signaling device with an uncurled door, and his fellow, informing the squeezer, remained on the instrument panel.
Sitting in the car is convenient, but it is not easy to settle down the first time. For example, the upper part of the instrument panel is blocked by the steering wheel. The column is not adjusted will have to reject the back of the seat back. But then the overview of the middle ground is deteriorated by the method of trial and error. A handrail lurked over the head of the front passenger. If the back of the seat is installed close to the vertical (the height of the Aveo salon allows), then contact with the temple cannot be avoided. Obviously, tall fellow travelers have a reason to tilt the back more hollow. But the back will not have to be adapted: both the legs are spacious and the head. To get to the ceiling, you need to put on a dad! In the back of the right front seat, a folding plastic table with a cup holder is provided. Aeroflot, and nothing more! True, it is unclear why a colleague has no this option on the left.
GOOD RIDDANCE
On the plain, Aveo turned out to be unexpectedly frisky, reminding the spare player finally released on the field. The sensations confirm the data of factory acceptance tests, during which the car accelerated to hundreds of 11.9 s. The case in the characterization of the torque is maximum (123 N.M) is achieved at 3000 rpm.
But on the first more or less steep rise of about half a kilometer long, a 1.4-liter engine was noticeably sore. I remember that the grandmother of Nexia with the motor of almost the same power climbed to the top in a single breath. This difference is a fee for fear. The Aveo body is 70 kg heavier, but fully meets the latest requirements for passive safety, including a bracket.
It is pleasant to note that in any modes the car remains moderately comfortable. Thanks to good sound insulation, the engine noise does not annoy even at high speeds. A rather stiff suspension made for good roads on real ones could be shaking. But contrary to expectation, the fifth point (in the language of the compoiers, the point H) did not feel anything like this. Apparently, the vibrations were bogged down in the seats (very comfortable, by the way). But where necessary, the high suspension density appeared. As a result, the car showed good handling and high terminal stability.
Well, the Cross Chevroletovsky Aveo received rightfully. And deserved to wear it!

Chief designer Zaza Sergey Filipenko:
Aveo pendants are structurally the same as that of the McEferson sensation in the front and semi-dependent on the P-shaped beam from the back. The difference is only in the stiffness of elastic elements in Aveo is higher. This car is focused on a normal average road, where a hard suspension provides the best indicators of stability and handling.
Leonid Sapozhnikov. Photo by the author

Source: The magazine "Driving"