CHEVROLET NIVA test drive since 2009 SUV

Not a hivisky me!

One of my very good acquaintance decided to get right. And so, when her learning was already nearing his logical conclusion, she began to express his point of view on the process of driving a car. The reason for the trip to the Niva.
 
You know, I like Niva more than nine. I get better on it! And driving can be sitting, and not lying; And legs up to pedals are normal, and it can be seen all around well. In addition, it is also possible to accidentally call the sidewalk and do not hit anything. Just now
 
Almost only in the field of 25 years ago, it was possible to count as much as possible: mediocre comfort, due to archaic ergonomics and random efforts on governing bodies, more than mediocre asphalt riding qualities and practically complete incompatibility with such a concept as passive safety. A car of increased patency, but reduced practicality; Having a number of undoubted advantages and significant flaws compared to the Zhiguli and Volga. But nothing is forever. As gradually goes into non-existence of a classic and Niva in the already predicted future will leave the AvtoVAZ conveyor. And the car that will replace it will wear a Chevrolet foreign name, and its name from nowend should be read in the Niva Latin version unusually for this.

  

Russian Chevrolet is a unique project. For the first time in the history of the domestic automotive industry, the car developed by our engineers will enter the market in the model range of the Western manufacturer. After all, how was it before? Under the guise of gases, VAZ and Muscovites produced foreign cars. And here it seems to be a Russian car VAZ-2123 and suddenly Chevrolet! Already intrigues: Well, in this car, such that allowed her to join the family with such a high name?
 
The idea, at one time, laid down in VAZ-2121, assumed the creation of a car on which a rural resident would not be ashamed to appear in the city. The current Niva is different. Outwardly, this is a typical city SUV painting metallic, alloy wheels, painted in the body of the bumper bumper will not hit this urban rushing with a radiator grille in rural dirt? This we will check a little later.
 
And yet, remembering the vase blood, I decide to extract the body of Chevrolet.ru for the detection of this RU itself. Fasher failed. The quality of the color is very worthy, and the gaps between the bodies of the body are uniform, although somewhat large. I liked how the doors are closed: easy and quiet. It is closed, and do not slam. In addition, the outer handles under natural grip is much more convenient than all those door delights that our industry had previously offered us.

  

The car is very good inside. The quality of the assembly makes talking about the car as one hundred percent Chevrolet: all the elements are tightly fitted to each other and when driving are silent together.
 
The front panel is covered with pleasant to the touch material, and the tissue upholstery of the seats will be diversified by a variety of inserts. The ventilation control unit consists of three handles, with which nothing should be organized in the Tashkent or Yakutsk salon everything is logical, it is clear, and most importantly effective.
 
But the most important managers of the steering wheel with the Chevrolet emblem is the most bright element of the interior. Baranca diameter resembles a classic one, but only it is much more convenient, and the big hub easily accommodates the airbag. Will not be surprised if soon the garage tuning lovers will begin to change the standard Barancas of their Zhiguli to American.
 
In motion, the car is not much different from a simple car. But where the roads end and directions begin, Niva feels in their plate. Not surprising: from a technical point of view, the car is much more serious than compidant particle goods, which unequivocally indicates the presence of a dispensing box and blocking the inter-axis differential.

  

The reverse side of the car's passability is an increased level of noise that is born in the depths of transmissions when driving at high speeds, as well as significant vibrations on the lever of the PPC.
 
Chevrolet NIVA is not the Niva, what we used to see it. And although this is a car with distinctive, like all the products of the Russian car industry, but modern appearance, outstanding off-road qualities and quite affordable price, compare the Chevrolet follows from the VAZ-2110, and not with the predecessor. Niva just also correlates with the tenth family from AvtoVAZ, like a quarter of a century ago VAZ-2121 looked at the background of the six hundred.
 
But despite the overseas name, the car is perceived very Russian. Notice, not Soviet, but Russian. This is a completely special car, which is some intermediate link between Rousseau Mobile and a foreign car. Why closer? Hard to say. It seems to be or still better: try to go to the nearest dealer and ride on Chevrolet. I am sure you can't answer this question either. But I think you will agree that today it is the best car from those that created the domestic automotive industry.

   
The car is provided by Laura.
At the time of the test, the car is insured by Nasta-Center LLC.
 
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Stunnin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A source: Magazine "Wheels" [№63 / 2002]