CHEVROLET AVEO (Kalos) Sedan West Drive Sedan

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In addition to good driving characteristics and relatively affordable prices, Chevrolet-Aweo attracts a variety of bodies, assemblies and configurations. Maxim Sachkov will help to choose the right car. Photo: Konstantin Yakubov.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS
To get started, determine with the body type. The company Sedan and a five -door hatchback will now compose a three -door at the time of preparing the material of the machines on sale yet, but dealers have already accepted orders. The sedan differs from the hatchbacks in the main appearance. The interiors are almost indistinguishable, with the exception of perhaps the upholstery of the doors and minor details.
Aveo’s sets of many three basic levels are complemented by several options of options. Each version is assigned a factory designation from letters and numbers. Crimely operating with these long indexes is the same as reading the name of the medicine on the prescription. Therefore, the tables show the lists of equipment only for the basic versions and indicate the price ranges from the bare configuration to the most stuffed as possible.
The initial level version of BASE (BAZ). Equipment set is a rather modest central castle, immobilizer, a driver’s pillow, an audio system with four speakers, which reads MP3. Among the options are air conditioning, ABS, a front pillow for a passenger. Outwardly, black external mirrors and door handles are distinguished. One of the significant drawbacks of BASE cannot be ordered with an automatic gearbox.
In the next version of LS, the level of security and comfort is higher. The driver's seat is also tuned in height, mirrors with electroregies and heating, the central lock is controlled from the key fob, and the salon cools the air conditioner in the heat. The discs have grown into an inch (the landing diameter of the tire 15), and for the surcharge, the stamped will be replaced with alloy. In addition, in this configuration you can buy a machine with a 1.2 or 1.4 liter engine, the latter with mechanics or automatic.
In the expensive version of LT, only sedans and five -door hatchbacks are supplied. True, the original details of the exterior and interior for this configuration, as well as the equipment for three -door are present in the expensive version of LS. Here is the complete electrification of glasses and mirrors, a more expensive audio system, in the list of basic equipment of a pair of front pillows and ABS. By the way, only in LT you can order a climate control instead of air conditioning. The originality of the appearance is given by fog lights, and in the hatchbacks of this version the rear spoiler is painted in the color of the body.
Aveo scatter like hot pies. At least in the capital, two-three-month-old queues are behind them. However, you can buy a car and quickly, but you will have to compromise with the dealer to agree to another color or set of equipment. On Aveo with any type of body, a 2 -year guarantee without limitation, like many European models.
By the way, the service and spare parts are by no means budgetary ._x0008_ pulled up to the European level.
Consider the options
Three -door hatchback
The latest model of the family of its sales in Russia is just beginning. Even obese and tall people easily penetrate the huge doorway, then it is more difficult to fasten up due to the central rack moved back. Sitting on the second row, as usual at cars with one door, is problematic, although the mechanism that throws back the front chair deserves praise. But Aveo has an indisputable advantage over other three-door classmates sitting from behind, they can do it with fresh air, opening the original windows. By the way, they practically do not create unpleasant aerodynamic noises (ZR, 2008, No. 8).
SEDAN
In addition to appearance, four -door Aveo differs from relatives 390 mm long and 30 mm wider. In the back seat, even a little freer than in the hatchbacks, and the trunk is almost twice as voluminous (400 l). By the way, a good indicator for its class. The almost perfect picture is spoiled by morally obsolete inner loops of the covers, which conceal part of the cargo space. In the rear seat, only the backs are folded (though, like the hatchbacks, in parts) on the border of the trunk and salon, a step (ZR, 2006, No. 4).
Five -door hatchback
The developers entered two additional doors into the same base as the three -door (2480 mm), and the dimensions of the hatchbacks are the same (3920x1680x1505 mm). The luggage compartments do not differ either in form or in volume of 220 liters. Of course, there are few places, but if you fold the backs (40:60), and if necessary, to throw off the whole seat entirely (the cushion of inseparable) space for the cargo will increase more than four times. In this case, it turns out almost even floor. True, it is not easy to translate a heavy and large -sized load through a high side of the opening. You will also have to get used to the fifth door handle, it is located not as usual in the middle, but shifted to the right (ZR, 2008, No. 4).
Ask, answer
I choose a second car to the family, mainly for traveling around the city. What can you say about Aveo?
Despite the spacious salon, for traveling a big family, this crusader is still small. But for traveling alone, not good around the metropolis. Large mirrors, quite decent, by modern standards, visibility and high landing allow you to feel confident during restructuring in a dense stream, and maneuvering in close parking lots. The ideal option for city travels is a 1.4-liter 101-horsepower version, armed with a 4-speed automatic. This power unit is quite furious, but without excessive twigs it disperses the car. True, for comfort, you will have to pay gasoline in the city on average 0.7 liters more than that of mechanics (according to factory data, in a conditional city cycle of 8.6 l/100 km).
How does Aveo behave on long trips?
The driver is quickly mastered at the workplace, and he does not tire for many hours of work behind the steering wheel. The contribution to comfort when traveling makes the chassis. The elastic suspension with sufficient energy intensity resists well even with serious irregularities, you can not crush frantically on the brake before railway crossings and lying police officers. In corners, the machine is tenacious for asphalt, and informative steering allows you to accurately set the trajectory. A spoonful of tar noise: the engines are by no means quiet, and noise -insulating materials were clearly stinging here.
Is it justified to overpay for a 1.4 liter motor?
If you often travel alone and confess a calm style, you will be arranged in leisurely 83 horses of a 1.2-liter engine. Modifications with it are not only cheaper, but also more economically 1.4-liter difference in fuel consumption of about 0.5 l/100 km. Modest numbers in the TCP will allow you to spend less on payment of transport tax and insurance and here the amounts differ several times already.
However, many deliberately go to such victims 101-horsepower modification, of course, is more frustrated, which will make overtaking on the highway easier and safer, and due to the better elasticity of the 1.4-liter motor, the driver will have to pull the gearbox lever less often.
 
 
 
 
   

 


 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"