Test Drive Chevrolet Lacetti Sedan since 2004 Sedan

Love do not undertake

According to the expression of those who looked around for her, I have noticed definitely. But this is why the character is hidden behind her exact figure, others could only guess. Well, let's get acquainted.
 



Last fall, the largest automotive corporation of the world General Motors made as if the highest proposal. Lada Koreanka, before that in our country, in the main efforts of gray dealers, gave the Chevrolet emblem, and the price was identified very tempting. Not spoiled accessible, bright modern machines, Russian buyers just had to like it.
 

And ... in general, I liked it. Perhaps not so much as its sellers would like: only ninth place in the golf class at the end of six months. Far in front turned out to be Russian focus, Korean Elantra, more than one year they made a name on the Japanese Quality Lancer, Corolla and Almers. But, on the other hand, yesterday, few people who are known to the famous debutant in popularity almost equal to Frant Megan and Modnice Mazda-3.
 

So, to figure out how really the Korean with the American emblem and Italian name is good, we decided on the example of a 5-door hatchback. Yes, this is not the most popular body sedans in the country. But in our opinion, it is generally much more convenient in everyday use, and in this case, in this case, the most brightly emphasizes all the sings of the design.
 

And the first thing that turned out is the price of Lacetti, in comparison with any of the modern (exception only Nexia) of foreign competitors, turned out to be really the most profitable.


What is the price
We say at once, the cheapest version for $ 13,800 and we will not consider. Because modern golf class car 1.4-liter engine 94 liters. with. weak. The more that 109-hp hatchback same basic SE version will cost only a thousand more than $ 14 790. And it is not even a naked body with armchairs, seats and wheels. The car will be ABS, air conditioning, electric front windows, a pair of airbags, stereo with CD-radio Blaupunkt and four speakers. For the money you do not buy any modern golf class car in the same equipment. Elantra and cherat more than a thousand more, and even supposedly cheap trick with the same set of options will cost around $ 15,400.
 

Whether it is necessary to restrict the basic version, you decide. We preferred modification of the second-level SX. And that's why. For just $ 400 you get a steering wheel and adjustable angle and length of the steering wheel, fog lamps, power heated mirrors and rear windows, radio control on the steering wheel. Understandably, it is this Lacetti is the most popular. If you pay $ 800, get climate control and side curtain airbags. You shell out $ 1,200 get a car with a gun.
 

But ordering a modification of CDH, we would not recommend. CD-Changer for 5 discs, traction control, alloy wheels, aluminum inserts under the front panel makes the machine more comfortable and elegant. But the price of $ 16,990 was obviously too much for the budget Korean subcompact. What can we say about the Lacetti-1,8CDX. Additional 13 l. with. will cost $ 1,000.
 

It remains to add that the optimal set of expensive hatchback sedan at $ 500, $ 1,200 on the wagon. The latter, in contrast to the 4-door, can be bought only with the mechanics and the engine of 1.6 liters.

 
 
The list of standard equipment

The basic version of SE (1,4 l $ 13,800, 1.6 l $ 14,790):

ABS
Power steering
Front airbags
Air conditioning
immobilizer
Central locking with remote control
Adjusting the height of the driver's seat
Power front windows
CD radio cassette player
cloth interior

Execution SX ($ 15,190) in addition:

Adjustable length and angle of inclination of the steering column
Fog lights
Electric heated mirrors
Power rear windows
Door handles and mirror housings in body color
Leather steering wheel trim and lever KP
Management stereo on the steering wheel

Execution of CDH ($ 16,990) in addition:

Antiscolic system
Light metal wheels R16
Electro-hydraulic power steering
Folding rear head restraints
Center armrest with cupholders behind
Additional socket in the center console
Inserting a metal
CD-changer for 5 CDs
Cpoyler on the fifth door




Outside...
If you've never looked after a beautiful woman, it means that you or a scout, which is used to say a famous movie character, a beautiful woman should ignore, or ... one of two things.
 

Even the pale green metallic (car much more are bright cherry, red, blue), which was wrapped up our koreyanochka, could not hide her delicious forms. They Lacetti obliged ... Italians. No matter what the hatchback was written by masters of the company Giugiaro, Pininfarina business sedan hands and wagon blend of Italian ideas and own sketches. The final product in any of the three cases turned out not so simple-how used to seeing Korean subcompact.

 
       
The rare case where, depending on the body type of the same model looks RAZNOMU.Hetchbek compact and swift. Universal seems to be more spacious than it actually is. A sedan, as it should be strict and not in terms of money is solid


And yet again, of the trio to be the most pretty compact 5-door. With stern candy. The point here is, probably, in the elongated, in the style of Alfa Romeo rear lights. These can not boast of any sedan or wagon. There Lacetti and something of the Peugeot 206, which has already become, perhaps, a classic car design last ten years. This strong tilt rear window, topped with tiny spoiler, and larger, but at the same time a neat stand fast, fast.
 

But clean, quite expressive, but more rustic forms of the face seems to be a little lacking cosmetics. A matter of taste? your will. But for me the car would not prevent fashionable transparent glass headlights, sly shape of the lens. Moreover, in general, it looks modern and fashionable car. A cross Chevrolet added a modest representative of Morning Calm fraction American satiety.
 

The quality and convenience are not forgotten for designer research. It is useless to seek shaggy skin on the paint. She is not. In order to the engine compartment, there was less dirt, on the top of the headlights allowed the rubber seal. Doors, despite the absence of a double seal, but can be seen, thanks to the exact adjustment of the locks, closes with a noble sound, inherent in the middle class. Plus comfortable, under natural grip, door handles, the trunk, opening outside not only with the key, both on the sedan, but also with the help of a handle hidden in the deepening, rather high bumpers and short sinks.

Holding an affordable price in mind, it would be necessary to find a flaw, but it does not work.
 



... and inside
Commonly designed salon Another undoubted visor of the car. About five years ago, the Korean car was associated with a gray cheap plastic and a minimum of sizes in the interior design. Lacetti next step forward. No, the plastic did not go anywhere, but on most of the front panel it is soft, dark, dear in appearance. Extremely the same, by the way, on Opel Astra. So for the door handles did not regret aluminum, as on high-quality German models.
 

 
 


Mondering the dynamic appearance, they did not forget about sports notes and in the cabin: round air intake deflectors, a stylish instrument panel with a speedometer, decorated with luminous nimbers, insertion under aluminum. And on the inner space of Chevrolet and at all in some disciplines claims to record. Let's say in front at the level of the shoulder 1390 mm one of the best results in the classroom. Or, for example, pulled the driver's seat back to the end, in the rear sofa, a man with a growing 180 cm just begins to touch the backrest knees.

 
    
In the corner of the driver's door, the control unit heated mirrors

Before the front passenger provides a regiment for an umbrella

Retractable tray under the seat makes the salon more practical
 
  
The glove box is wide, but not enough deep

Boxing armrest is welded half a dozen discs

Four power windows are on all Lacetti. After a single pressing driver knows how to completely lower the glass


And yet fall in love with this good, quite a stylish apartment interfered with details. On the perimeter of the front panel and on the upholstery of the doors, it was still a hated me, but allowing the plastic to be seriously saved. And the case of the steering column is as if the work of some vazovsky supplier. Details could not be adjusted to each other.

 
     
With this console on the steering wheel, it is convenient to control the radio tape recorder

The rear fog lamps have been controlled on the right-hand drive switch.
  
The driver's seat is endowed with an abundance of adjustments: the pillow can move in height and angle of inclination, it is possible to change the side stop

During refueling, the lid of the gas tank can be hung on a hatch

The fifth door can be opened with a key or handle under the branded emblem


To some frank ergonomics, I could not get used to the end of the wheel.


Behind the wheel
On the one hand, everything was wonderful. Seats comfortable. Moreover, for the budget hatchback, the broad, trimmed by velor chair is simply chic. You can adjust the height and angle of the tilt of the pillow, the tilt of the back, slightly reduce or increase the side stop. The steering wheel and this is to this day a rarity for other much more expensive Korean and Japanese cars is adjustable along the angle of inclination and very much in length. Comfortable, to the place located Armrest. Just a few seconds, and in an unfamiliar car I settled at home.
 

Immediately found where to put a wallet with documents, telephone. Pockets under the radio just for this. Although the two-way stereo system will easily come up here. The air conditioner unit is simple, but with understandable pictograms and verified efforts on the handles. Again, very similar to those inside Opel. Not deprived of the salon and cup holders. In short, at first glance, everything is very convenient.
 

However, I expected a unpleasant surprise in the form of an unnecessarily large in the diameter of the steering wheel and the clutch with a rather long stroke. The main gearbox lever with gigantic, as on a different truck, moves. Manipulating this, you remember the cook that hinders the dinner in the field kitchen. Especially hard in such a cable to catch the third gear. Well, though, with the rear, it is difficult to make it difficult: for its inclusion you need, like on many European models, lift the ring on the scene.

 
Controls















1. Window control buttons. 2. Control unit heated mirrors. 3. The control of the overall lights, neighbor and long-term light on the steering switch. 4. Clock. 5. Alarm switch. 6. Remote control panel of the radio. 7. Air conditioner unit. 8. CD magnetol. 9. Socket 12 V / cigarette lighter.
 
Dashboard












1. Tachometer. 2. Speedometer. 3. Run meter. 4. Fuel level pointer. 5. Coolant temperature pointer. 6. Blocks of control lamps.
 
 
Engine
 











1. Oil dipstice. 2. The plug of the oil-wave neck of the engine. 3. Player tank tube. 4. Expansion tank cooling system. 5. Tank of the main brake cylinder. 6. Rechargeable battery. 7. Air filter housing. 7. Hydraulic steering tank.


After noting the little as it turned out, 5.2 meters the radius of the turn and a fairly good visibility (thanks to the large mirrors and the stern, ending almost immediately behind the rear janitor), I was able to pretty Jurko to steal on the close underground parking and drove into the city.
 



Security
In Russia, and even on small agents, it is customary to save on it. It is enough to remember the focus, requiring surcharges and for ABS, and for the passenger pillow. Lacetti offers free and more. True, the EuroNCAP program did not check the car. But the American Insurance Institute of Road Safety (IIHS) was trying. Outside the ocean tests spend a slightly tougher technique. And broke the sedan there, not a hatchback.
 

So here. With frontal impact, the driver and passenger have every chance of getting out of trouble without damage. On only the protection of the right leg of the steering: the shin risks being clamped the front panel. But with a lateral collision due to the lack of inflatable curtains (they do not even get them in the top version of CDX, where 4 pillows) rear passengers do not avoid head injuries.
 

The passenger pillow is not turned off, so do not forget to transport the child in a special children's handicraft backrest in front of the front seat. But there is a special children's blocking of the windows at Chevrolet.
 

It remains to add that, unlike passive, active safety of Lacetti at a height: Recall the mandatory ABS and disk brakes on all wheels. Looking ahead, we note such a temperamental machine, which turned out to be lacettas, they help confidently slow down from the highest speeds.
 



On the roads ...
A dynamic attitude set by the appearance of the machine did not disappear after the first acceleration. Chevrolet engine is very easily gaining momentariness for modern, corresponding to strict environmental standards of motors. And thanks to a pretty hard drive of the accelerator pedal, temperament, it seems, even more than.
 

I am ready to believe that a 109-strong car accelerates to hundreds much faster than the declared 10.7 s. Acceleration, a small hitch on the inclusion of the second, again frisky acceleration with an even more obvious pickup somewhere after 3000 rpm and ... But where is this third?! I need to transmit it now for some reason too shifted forward and right. That is where long fuzzy moves play a crucial role.
 

However, maybe, extinguish, wipe? After all, in general, the car pleases me with temperamental, even sports temper. She readily responds to the swinging steering wheel. Immediately cheerfully accelerates, allowing me to be tasty and safely rebuild.

 
On Fifth Lacetti, quietly rolls 5060 and even if not very temperamentally, but without the slightest hole develops cruising 110120 km / h. It is at such a speed that the dense strip of cars is moving to the area. And, perhaps, this rhythm is most harmonious for Chevrolet. The noise of the wheels and wind, licked the body, is not yet annoying. The suspension confidently and almost unnoticed all the foxes in the asphalt. It is possible, it is even more comfortable than it is customary to demand in a golf class. Hamburger, Cola, Jordas Jeans ... Hurray, we have a weekend on a weekend, like typical Americans.
 

And what if you quickly? Things for 130 even more than other 1,6-liter European models. But I don't want to use it on the whole coil. The idyll of comfort with increasing speed collapsing as a card house. Motor, even more or less quietly working up to 3500, after this mark it is already idle. It would be the sound of a sports-minded exhaust, I do not mind. But for a long time to listen to his high lady, then even pleasure.
 

Now cutting, in order to have time to go on green, turning to the overpass. And suddenly Pi-and-and ... These are Korean Tires Hankuk so early are accepted to slide even on dry asphalt. And with a large corner of the steering wheel, the suspension that appeared to me appeared excessively frightening rolls. No, as the poet sang, I will never love it.
 

In principle, in a straight line you can go and faster 150. Motor allows. But the suspension is clearly not ready to vouch for complete safety. On the irregularities that, remember, almost did not notice the golf or Astra, Lacetti jershits, swinging and makes reset the speed. Slowly, but surely the car generates a habit in advance to slow down in front of the most steep turns and ride a stepwise, slowly.
 

Considering such a character and fuzzy working mechanics, let us give advice even those who do not tolerate the machine on the Spirit. Checked: the simplest 4-speed ACP for Lacetti is that the doctor prescribed. It can be easily controlled, switching smooth, and the limit of the noise comfort is shifted to a higher speed area somewhere by 130140 km / h.
 

And even with such a box optimal 1.6SX this is already $ 16,590 in metallic color. But it is still $ 420 cheaper than a 100-strong, even less temperamental and similarly equipped focus comfort. And approximately $ 600 more affordable automatic Hatchbacks Elantra and Cherato.
 



On primer
That's where this car I liked this machine unequivocally. After all, all Lacetti come to Russia with an impressive road clearance of 162 mm. Thanks to short sinks and quite highly suspended bumpers, you can not be very careful, parked with high borders. With now, increasingly fashionable urban parquets with lacetti larger lumen plays almost in the same league. True, you will have to pay ap of $ 120 for the metal protection of the crankcase. With work, some dealers will have to lay out a couple of hundred.

 
  
Due to the folding in the ratio of 2: 3, the backrest modest volume (275 liters) of the trunk increases significantly

One big and one small suitcase completely fill the trunk


On our car there were only regular plastic anthers, so I caught on well-rolled primer. And here it turned out another nuance in the management of Lacetti, with whom will have to be considered. On the rise, circling large, other with a fist, stones, I naturally rode neatly. And it turned out that the car confidently pulled in a modest, percent of twenty slid, had to support no less than 2000 on a tachometer and constantly play clutch. On smaller turns, the engine GLAH, and with big thoroughly thoroughly accelerate. It is true, to notice, many modern 16-valve suffer from the same disadvantage.
 

 
Car dimensions, mm
 
Size of the cabin, mm




Wegor suitcases
But in this discipline Chevrolet, there is nothing to boast. In a 275-liter, almost the most modest result among the Golf Class hatchbacks can not put a lot of Lacetti. The 950 per 655 mm level is 655 mm for one large suitcase. With a big desire, you can catch a part of the second, the smallest standard of such that it is allowed to take in the form of a hand-made baggage on board the aircraft. With five passengers, there will be no longer possible.
 

Or have to go for victims. Remove the shelf, lay the back in parts or entirely. With such variations, carry the son a bike to the cottage or immerses here another, not very cumbersome large-sized. And for lovers to live according to the principle, all our wear with me is a wagon. Pay $ 14,94018 190 depending on the options and take even Babushkino tremor into the cottage. Polygon without a small one and a half meters long and 1410 liters volume is just for this.


Operation, service
Here Lacetti again relieves like. And she gets good. It is especially worth noting a moderate appetite of a 1.6-liter motor. Middle expenditure on 89 liters of the 95th on a hundred and in the city, and in 130140 km / h modes can be trusted on the highway. Only large nodes like a steering rail, which, as a rule, can be honest and honest can be injected into solid waste. As well as some body details and very expensive windshield.

Korean cars traditionally bribed with democratic service prices. Lacetti is no exception. Money for maintenance will need less than for most Japanese and European models. All warranty repair, as well as, which must be carried out once a year (or 15,000 km), will perform any of the authorized ten dealers in Moscow, and the factory warranty on all cars is 2 years or 100 thousand mileage kilometers.

 
We liked
 


Modern appearance

Spacious interior with comfortable front chairs

Short Outs and Pretty High Bumpers


And:

Big Motor
Good smoothness
Favorable value price / equipment SX version


 
We did not like


Very long and fuzzy moves of the KP lever



Ogrechi build parts interior parts

The need for surcharge to protect Carter


And:

Large rolls in turns
Modest trunk dimensions
Early start of slip in rapid devias
Bad soundproofing of the engine compartment and well heard wheels



 
 
Chevrolet Lacetti 1,6

Total information
 
Body (number of places / doors)
Hatchback (5/5)
 
Curb weight, kg
1175.
 
Speed, km / h
187 (175)
 
Acceleration 0-100 km / h, with
10.7 (11.5)
 

Fuel consumption, l / 100 km highway / city
6/9.1 (6.2 / 11.2)
 

Fuel reserve
60.
 

Engine
 
Location
Front cross
 
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, inline, with two upper camshafts
 
Number of valves on the cylinder
4
 
Diam. Cylinder x Piston stroke, mm
79x81.5
 
Working volume, SMZ
1598.
 
Compression ratio
9.5: 1.
 
Power, hp at rpm
109/5800.
 
Torque, kgcm at rpm
15.3 / 4000.
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
on the front wheels
 
Transmission
mechanical, 5-speed
(Automatic, step-4)
 
Gear ratios I; II; III; IV; V; ZH
3.82; 2.16; 1.48; 1.13; 0.89; 3.33
(2,88; 1,57; 1,07; 2,3)
 
main gear
3.72 (3.84)
 
Suspension:
Independent, spring with stabilizer bars
 
in front
type McPherson
 
behind
multilink
 
Steering
rack type with amplifier
 
brakes:
disc, ventilated front with ABS
 
bus
195/55 R15
 

KAR
$ 0.25 / km


 
Prices for parts and MOT, USD *

To1 (15 000 km) 155.1
TO2 (30 000 km) 213
TO3 (45 000 km) 263.7
Oil filter 6
Air filter 16
Fuel filter 13
Spark plug (1 pc.) 8
Timing belt 82
Brake pads front / rear 67/53
Tie rod 47
The steering rack 593
Ball joint 19
Absorber front / rear 125/111
Covered front / rear 153/305
hood 371
Front door 408
Rear door 392
Front bumper assembly 393
Rear bumper assembly 371
Windshield 338
Side window 74
Headlamp assembly 209
Tail light assembly 112

* 1 y. e. 29 rubles. 50 kopecks.
 
    
We decided:

If you do not expect from Lacetti drayverskogo bright talent and outstanding comfort, it appears that the role of competitive cute workhorse for everyday play it perfectly. Even more its popularity interfere too small, compared to the Lancer and Focus, the difference in price.
 

Alexey Sergeev, photo Maxim Gocharova
 
 

A source: Buy Auto Magazine [15/2005]