CHEVROLET AVEO (Kalos) Sedan West Drive Sedan

If not for the tail

Aveo surprised a couple of years ago for four years he was sold neither Shatko nor Valkko and suddenly burst into the number of leaders among the supermini. If you liked this car, keep in mind you need to think very thoughtfully at the choice of both the type of body and configuration.
In fact, the reasons for the unexpected success of the baby are on the surface. He was born like a Dau-kalos. A couple of years later, Marquetologists General Motors gave him an American surname and a more harmonious name. Almost immediately, Aveo’s assembly from Korean machine tools was established in Kaliningrad. In the summer of 2006, a very successful restyling arrived. Moreover, only the sedan has up to the five -door, apparently, the hands did not reach. Solly, hitherto, the car became more solid outside, more convenient and more expensive inside. But the main thing is noticeably more profitable. Like the hatchback, the sedan began to be sold with a more affordable engine of 1.2 liters, and in version 1.4 liters of four -door it turned out to be cheaper.
The popularity of sedans immediately tripled. As if catching up, the hatchback was also updated last summer. In addition to the 5-door, a 3-door machine also appeared. But the sedan is still more profitable. It is not surprising that among competitors-Sumerini 4-door Aveo firmly settled in fourth place in popularity.
What is the price?
Ahead is only Logan, emphasis and lanos, which are cheaper than Aveo for 2050 thousand rubles. But for the buyer of budgetary small grades, the saved ten thousand rubles may turn out to be decisive.
Moreover, the price lists in the salons and on the sites of dealers are composed in such a way that using them is extremely inconvenient. On the one hand, there are only three clearly tied to the motor and gearbox of modification and options according to the package scheme. But instead of being clearly prescribed these packages, the buyer is offered to understand dozens of complex alphanumenic-cyphatic indices, indicating the more or less different configurations: B5MC55A, B3MD45G, etc. As a result, the price list looks like a Chinese certificate in which the specialist will be confused In two accounts. Below, in the form of a table, we tried to simplify your task.
The basic 3-door Aveo for 313 thousand is slightly more expensive than Pikanto and Fabia. True, it is a little better equipped in addition to the only airbag pillow of the CD-Magns and electric windows. A pair of rear doors will cost another 10 thousand. But the sedan is 2730 rubles. cheaper than five -door. We take it? Do not hurry. Remember to buy BAZ only if you are extremely limited in funds and agree to the Spartan vehicle without any amenities.
 
    
Unfortunately, only a plug will be only a plug at the site of the mirror control panel.
Even if you do not order expensive climate control, the central console will still look stylish and is not expensive in class
 
After all, it is worth starting to equip such a machine with pre -equipment and this is possible: say, the steering wheel amplifier costs 12,300 rubles, a set from the air conditioner, ABS and the second pillow 52,300 rubles, and the base is more expensive than the next version of LS. But it already has air conditioning, adjusting the chair in height, remote control of the central lock and fabric upholstery on the doors instead of hard plastic. Frontal Air Bag for the dearest half or your favorite child can be bought for only 4700 rubles. And outside the version of LS looks elegant. She is laid 15-inch tires painted in the color of the body of the mirror and door handles. And finally, starting with LS, you can order an automatic machine. It is a pity, it costs very expensive 4050 thousand rubles.
Naturally, such a sedan will not have an electric drive and heating of mirrors. But to follow the dealer and pay another 3436 thousand for the LT version. Noriginal-heating will cost much cheaper. After all, the most expensive Aveo will have a lot of equipment, without which a budget supermini can be done: climate control, a light alloy, an additional pair of speakers, fog lights, rear electric windows and a stupid armrest of the driver's chair. But most importantly, for 424486 thousand rubles, which costs the top LT, you can buy an octavia tour, a car is higher. A small chevrolet remains a profitable offer at a price of up to 400,000 rubles. Otherwise, his talents are unreasonably expensive.
List of standard equipment
Execution of BAZ-1,2:
. Steering wheel amplifier (for the sedan 12 300 rubles)
. Driver safety pillow
. central locking
. Front electric windows
. MP3 Magnetola, 4 speakers
. Tilt -adjustable steering wheel with an amplifier
. Fabric salon
. Stacked in the proportion of 40:60 the back of the sofa
. DOCKAY
. Steel wheels with tires 185/60 R14
For BAZ-1,4 In addition:
. Air conditioner
. ABS (for the sedan only with the second pillow 18 310 rubles)
For LS-1,2 in addition to BAZ-1,2:
. Adjustment of the driver's seat in height
. Air conditioner
. Passenger front pillow (for the sedan 4700 rubles)
. Oblast
. Doors and mirrors' handles in the color of the body
. Air computer (except for a sedan)
. Electric drive and heating of mirrors (except for the sedan)
. Central Castle with DU
. Tires 185/55 R15
For LS-1,4 additionally:
. ABS (for the sedan 13 570 rubles)
For LT-1,4 additionally:
. Climate control (for a sedan along with side airbags 16 310 rubles)
. Leather steering wheel and lever KP
. Board comprehensive (for the sedan)
. Electric drive and heating of mirrors (for sedan)
. The armrest of the driver's seat (for the sedan)
. Side airbags (except for sedan)
. Fog lights
. Rear electric windows
. Light alloy wheels
. Du radio on the steering wheel, 6 speakers
Outside and inside
And there are many talents. The first of them is multiplicity. With various bodies, Aveo looks completely different. A three -door baby with a spoiler above the back door, sharp substetings of the sidewalls, perky fragrances of the ventilation system in front of the mirrors, the reverse tilt of the rear rack tries to seem an athlete. True, the combination of a short tall body on narrow wheels with a huge trapezoid of the radiator grille and aggressively upturned headings of the headlights looks somewhat comical.
   
The five -door hatchback looks calmer, more restrained, in full accordance with its family essence. And the sedan does not look like them at all. It is the longest among the superminos from the nose to the tail of 4.31 m. This baby, by the way, is ten centimeters longer than golf. Such Aveo looks like an adult way: a false, with a large classic radiator grill, impressive wheel arches, clearly drawn a trunk than it is more. In general, in our opinion, Aveo is a rare case when a 4-door looks harmonious than a hatchback.
By the way, the appearance in some way also depends on the configuration. If you have chosen LS, then get 15-inch tires. Unlike the basic ones, which is smaller, they are visually no longer lost in large wheel arches. And do not pose about disks from a light alloy: such a car is laid very well -disguised caps for casting. Only regular mudguards are not, you will have to install them with the dealer not for free, of course. And it is also worth ordering the processing of thresholds with anti -gravity and the body will last longer, and noise insulation will improve.
 
Not only from the outside, but also inside Aveo, they noticeably vary depending on the body and the version you have chosen. However, the sofa in any case is convenient: a pillow sufficient in length, the correct angle of inclination of the back, two adults up to 185 cm will be sustained here freely. In the cabin of each chevrolet there are pens above the doors, hooks for clothes, pockets on the backs and even on the ends of the seats. But then the differences begin: in the hatchback from the pillow of the sofa to the ceiling 90, and in the sedan 92 cm. It turns out, tailed and here is preferable.
Like the LS equipment we recommend. Due to fabric inserts, door upholstery looks much richer than basic plastic panels. And wide and comfortable doors with chrome-based decoration here replaced small recesses and seizures in the armrests.
 
    
A small pocket for cards is in the front doors of all Aveo. But conveniently located windows of windows only at the sedan
Convenient visors with mirrors, navigator backlight and tinted strip have any Aveo
 
      
If the children's chair is installed on the front seat with the back forward, the airbag needs to be turned off
The glove box is very small in volume
Climbing the sofa 3-door is inconvenient. And the mechanism of movement of the chair does not always work clearly
 
 
Behind the wheel
It’s generally a sin to complain to the driver. A chair with a long pillow, a wide back and height adjustment guarantees a convenient, correct landing even despite the fact that the steering wheel can only be adjusted along the angle of inclination. Rare case.
The radio tape recorder can read the MP3 format, and its appearance and convenience of control would make other higher class machines. The air conditioner block is also clear from the very first seconds of communication. In its design, there is nothing superfluous, unless the large central circle of control of the fan speed is decorated with a chrome edging. There are only two serious minuses in ergonomics Aveo. Wide, especially in the lower part, the front racks significantly limit visibility. And because of a very long-term, fuzzy lever of the box, look, you mix out the wrong transmission.
The rest is trifles. Say, an unsuccessfully located cup holder on the central console. If you put a couple of cans in it, you will not be able to use an ashtray. It, of course, will be healthier. Or pour the salon as ash.
Governing bodies

1. Block of electric windows. 2. A remote control for mirrors. 3. The external lighting control lever. 4. The remote control remote control. 5. The wiper control lever. 6. Clock. 7. Block CD Magical Magnetic. 8. Alarm button. 9. Climate control unit. 10. Coicier. 11. The cover of an ashtray. 12. Cover of drawers.
 
Dashboard

1. Tachometer. 2. Signal lamps. 3. The control button of the on -board computer. 4. The indicator of the temperature of the coolant. 5. Fuel level indicator. 6. The screen of the on -board computer. 7. The odometer zero button. 8. Speedometer.
 
There are small flaws inherent exclusively to the hatchback. For example, a bag of a crook unlocking the lock was located behind the door handle, and not in front of it, as in a sedan. The armrests turned out to be short, and there was not enough space for the buttons. To use the buttons, the hand of the hand has to be unnaturally twisted.
Finally, if you choose a three -door, the safety belt to the central rack will have to reach like a pioneer on charging.
On the roads
In principle, Aveo’s base engine is enough. Together with restyling, Korean engineers added to him fifty cubes of working volume and another distribution to the cylinder head. So the power has increased from 72 to 84 liters. With.
The thrust with low revolutions of such a motor is quite worthy, no worse than that of an 8-valve predecessor veteran. And the newcomer is gaining revolutions, filling the driver with confidence that when starting from a traffic light, you can wipe any nose. Alas, in order to also be briskly accelerating with 6080 km/h, the turns must be kept higher, and the motor gives more less than the traction. The strength, whatever one may say, is barely enough to dial 110120. And this is one or two with the air conditioner. With a standard summer cottage in the summer heat, the condo works to the fullest, four adult passengers on board, Aveo-1,2 cats and seedlings turn into a convinced melancholic, which cannot be stirred with any inhumances.
However, such a motor also has obvious advantages. Firstly, economy is no more than seven liters per hundred even in the city. And secondly, in the optimal version of LS it is 23,80029 380 rubles. The 1.4-liter unit is cheaper (the difference is even more powerful than 53,12057,000, but we agreed that it makes sense to buy a BAZ only in minimal equipment and, of course, with a basic engine).
Nevertheless, the buyer of the sedan can go broke by about $ 880. An additional 17 cities of a 1.4-liter engine will always be very helpful. The 4-door body itself is not much heavier than only 20 kg. But by virtue of his more solid trunk (as yet to come), the owner will have much more temptation to load the baby with a bag or two potatoes or a battery preserved for the winter of agricultural sparks. Meanwhile, Aveo-1,4, without requiring switching, enters the fifth into a rather solid (judging by the sign, 6 percent) rise. On long lines, it allows you to type 140150 km/h.
However, if you still overpay for a more powerful motor, then not at all in order to make Aveo as nimble and sports. Yes, confidence, your right foot will be added, but keep in mind that the Corean Chevrolet chassis is not more likely. In corners, the car rolls and strives to jump from the arc. Far from the coupling properties, the full -time tires of Kumho begin to treacherously glide early in the turns. And in the asphalt rut Aveo shies from side to side.
 
Engine

1. Clot of the glass of the glass gunner. 2. Air filter case. 3. The cork of the oil -packed engine of the engine. 4. The tank of the main brake cylinder. 5. Expansion tank of the cooling system. 6. A probe of oil level in the engine. 7. The probe of the oil level in the gearbox. 8. Battery battery. 9. Tank of the power steering.
 
But do not rush to be upset: in fact, this machine also has an extraordinary pedagogical talent. After all, a calm, balanced driver, always observing traffic rules, turns into a comfortable family car. His suspension confidently works out pits and potholes, isolating the riders from most of the road troubles. By the way, here is another argument in favor of the sedan: 4-door and softer, and quieter a hatchback.
The only flaw that is manifested in any Aveo at any speed is frankly poor soundproofing of wheeled arches and thresholds. On the rough asphalt, the rumble in the cabin is depressing. And in the hatchback, the sound insulation of the trunk floor is even worse, so that the rumble from the rear wheels even passes to the rear racks. If the motor is driven above 4000 rpm, passengers may seem that they found themselves in the back rows of the Tu-154. Also, you see, pedagogy: willy-nilly you will go slowly and you will choose the road as even as possible.
By the way, with a similar nature of the chassis, automatic transmission is best combined. If the city does not drive a motor above 25003000 revolutions, a 1.4-liter engine does not piss a noise and pulls very diligently. Yes, without a light. But after all, you can only overtake on long straight lines, only with a margin.
And without them
It is amazing how quickly you can jump on the bumps on Aveo. His suspension completely imperceptibly swallows even very serious irregularities. Just according to the old driver's proverb: more Gary is less than the pits! However, this, of course, is a joke: even such a light jeeping will not pass without a trace for a passenger suspension. Therefore, outside the asphalt it is better to move extremely slowly cheaper.
Moreover, if the last kilometers to your native phase run through the primer, you can go without fear where a neighbor passes on Vazovskaya ten. Chevrolet has quite high bumpers, under the crankcase honest 155 mm for a modern passenger car is a very worthy clearance. From below, neither the muffler nor the details of the suspension perform. The only exception to the hind springs are welded low, so we do not advise climbing a rut more deeper than 15 cm.
 
We load the suitcases
In terms of cargo capabilities, the Aveo sedan presented another surprise. Usually the most convenient hatchback is in this regard. But not in our case. Not only that is a tiny bag of 220 liters, the transformation mechanism is also poorly thought out. In addition, there is little space to the shelf.
If you remove the shelf and fold the back, the loading length will increase almost twice from 57 cm to a meter. Putting the back and pillow on the rib will not work right away. First, do not forget to remove the central headrest, otherwise it will rush into the tunnel on the floor. To unlock the lock fixing the pillow, you need to pull in two plastic rings in the floor. But the mechanism is not moderately tight, and the sharp ring cuts the finger.
 
        
In the 2nd version, the volume of the hatchback hold will not exceed 980 liters
If the back of the sofa is folded, a long meter up to 1.6 m will easily fit into the sedan
Only 47 cm from floor to shelf. If you need to put a large suitcase on the rib, the shelf will have to be removed
 
   
Thanks to the high ceiling, even in a 3-door, it will be convenient for passengers to 185 cm tall
The disadvantage of any Aveo is just a dock in the underground. Plus around her will fit a lot of everything.
 
 
As a result, you will get all the torment not a very flat platform about a meter per meter. An adult bicycle even with the front wheel removed here will not fit here. Unlike the sedan. The volume of the hold 4-door is almost twice, 400 liters, the maximum length is 1605 mm. Long -meters here prevents only a small step in front of the salon. But you can carry the same bike. Moreover, only the sedan will allow the four or fifth with a dozen Avosek, and even with the notorious bag of potatoes in addition.
 
Car dimensions, mm
 
Salon dimensions, mm
Safety
Even such a loaded one, Aveo slows down quite worthy of powerfully, without departments and screening. The effort on the pedals, slowdown is easy to predict. Only with an emergency stop did not like that AVS is working early. However, you can not order the anti -lock system at all. And you can manage this Aveo safely; The wheels of both axles break into the south at the same time. So, unlike the same focus and many other machines, whose brake systems were originally designed for the use of AVS, it is easier to dose the force.
But do not save on pillows, especially on the front ones. Aveo’s body structure is not the strongest. If, with a lateral strike in Euroncap tests, the results are satisfactory, then the front test brought the Chevrolet sedan only 3 points. Logan, for comparison, 8, for accent 4.
Operation, service
Aveo's guarantee for 2 years without a mileage. And the Chevrolet dealer network was spread into 82 cities of Russia, that is, almost as extensive as Ford. In Moscow, 18 dealers work, 8 in St. Petersburg. The trouble is that everyone’s service prices and spare parts are different. Therefore, choose what is closer or offers the best conditions.
But any of them has a branded Aveo service unjustifiably. Even if you go to the dealer only once a year, for the warranty period you will have to spend an average of 1520 thousand rubles. Moreover, brake pads, liquids, some filters will require additional money.
 
We liked
     
Stylish, spacious salon
Convenient air conditioning blocks and radio
Big trunk sedan

As well as:
Favorable price of optimal modifications 1.2LS and 1.4LS
Economical motor 1.2 l
Energy -intensive suspension
A wide selection of bodies
 
 
We didn't like it
   
Inexplicable buttons of hatchback windows
Long, fuzzy stroke lever manual transmission
In an inconvenient button control button for the flight comprehensive compliance

As well as:
Broad front desks of the body
Poor sound insulation
Flaws of compilation of configurations
High prices for that and repair
 
 
Chevrolet Aveo 1.2MT (1.4MT)
common data
 
Body, number of places/doors
Sedan, 5/4
 
Equipped mass, kg
1103 (1143)
 
Speed, km/h
170 (175)
 
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, with
12.8 (11.9)
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
4.6/7.2 (4.7/7.9)
 
Fuel supply, l
45
 
Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
4-cyl., In order with two camshafts in the head
 
The number of valves per cylinder
four
 
Working volume, SMZ
1206 (1399)
 
Compression ratio
9.3: 1 (9.5: 1)
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
84/6000 (101/6400)
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
11.6/3800 (13.4/4200)
 
Chassis
 
Drive unit
On the front wheels
 
Transmission
5-st. Mechanical
 
Gear rates I; II; III; IV; V; Z.Kh.
3.54 (3.56); 1.95; 1.32 (1.28); 0.97; 0.78 (0.76); 3.38 (3.33)
 
main gear
4.05 (3.94)
 
Suspension:
spring
 
Suspension: in front
Independent, such as McEferson
 
behind
semi -dependent, working for twisting the transverse beam
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
Front/back brakes
disk, ventilated/drum
 
Tires
185/60 R14
Car
from 3.86 rubles/km
 
 
Prices for spare parts and then, rub
TO1 (15,000 km) 7000-8700
TO2 (30,000 km) 8500-9500
TO3 (45,000 km) 10 200 - 11 040
Oil filter 250
Air filter (engine) 788
Enjoyment candle (4 pcs.) 980
Front brake pads/rear 3500/3600
Tip of steering thrust 970
Front shock absorber/rear 4900/2600
Front/rear wing 5500/13 187
The hood is 12,000
Front/back door 13 500/11 425
Front bumper (cladding and amplifier) \u200b\u200b13 500
Rear bumper (cladding and amplifier) \u200b\u200b7750
Windshield 14,000
Side glass (front) 4500
Farah assembly 9200
Rear lamp assembly 5400
 

We decided:
Lada outside, spacious inside, economical and quite comfortable, Aveo today is one of the most profitable superminations in Russia. And the most profitable and convenient it will turn out with the sedan body and best in the LS version. Compose sellers of configuration is more optimal, do not take off the excess for maintenance, and the popularity of a small chevrolet would be even higher.
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [12/2008]