CHEVROLET SPARK test drive since 2010 hatchback
Yours sincerely
New, very secured family, new life values \u200b\u200band even a new name now became the baby Matiz. But has it changed so much? With widespread eyes
Remove the hat in front of his trainers! You press the button on the key, and the red chevrolet standing in the distance, having blinking the headlights, unlocked the doors. Matiz did not die so much, and this is quite as an adult. Yes, he winks to me not full of children's naivety the headlights-buttons, what were on DEU, and a new, covered with a fashionable rim with optics. Now quiet. It seems to be crying to serve!, And he, putting on the hind paws, dismissed the back janitor ...
It is still a crumb of less than 3.5 m in length. But looks a little more adult. Here is a hubber on the front wings, because of which in the profile of Mathiz so reminded the clumsy little saigacion, disappeared. In their place, barely noticeable wrinkles-undercover. The window line of the front doors of the unceronous wave runs away from the wing to the central stands. Well, hello, spark!
For fashionable outfit
Lamb! These times ... I try to close the door with a smaller force now does not blocked the lock. Cotton is slightly closed. True, the sound is again like metal for metal, and a shiver runs through the body all over the body. It is strange, because Y Spark is a tough body due to the use of high-strength steels. It can be seen, little. And even on silent castles and good-quality seals on this Chevrolet, as well as on DEU, save. But where money was invested with interest, so it is in the modernization of the interior.
Tachometer shallow. But there was no such thing on the Matze
Coin and credit card holder are useful on European paid roads.
Under the passenger seat pretty capacious tray
You know, there are such dogs. Loving hostess her and bluette bluette cooker, and in the wool boulder. Salon of the smallest Shevy reminded me of such a bolon. It became more convenient, brighter, more fashionable.
Main news of the central location of the dashboard. Before the driver a garland of warning lights. There is a seat belt sensors and an open door. In general, a host of safety Spark cares much better ancestor: a pair of airbags, seat belts with pretensioners, rear headrests, loops for attaching child armchair. Matiz is not even dream. You can still, just like adults, and the ABS book.
Oh, those ancestors!
But the design of three-spoke steering wheel with a huge saucer, cover bag, for an amateur. But it is still better than a bagel slippery Matiz. In general, symmetrical, stylish air vents front panel to make the interior bright and interesting. Spark can be ordered with plates in aluminum will be even nicer. In addition, the tone of the interior was adjusted to match the body. There are four variants of color upholstery seats and door panels, three variants of color instrument scales.
It is a pity, to be reincarnated as a spacious car baby and could not. Of course, for such a modest size of its interior can seem even larger than it really is, especially the owners of VAZ and the Volga. But, as in the Matiz, the driver and passenger will push each other with their elbows. Sit yourself for a is not so simple: prop headboards. Not notice that only one adult male pominiatyurney growth under meter eighty.
Rather unpretentious Cassette, decorating Matiz, Spark on quite modern CD RADIO BLAUPUNKT
So joystick GOVERNED outside mirror
Driver's seat cushion is height adjustable
Despite the seeming vastness three AT the back seat is not the place
sofa backrest folds not entirely, as Matiz, and in a ratio of 2/3. However, the front seats have to move forward
In this fit the trunk, only three or four small bags
Of course, it is good that the driver's seat height adjustment there. But still a good idea and a longitudinal increase. And the steering wheel would not prevent at least one adjustment. Again, blame ancestors Spark: Matiz, aka Tiko, is based on the Suzuki Alto in 1982.
Get used to, fortunately, can be anything. And here is the exit to Varshavke free. Walk, Sparkle!
Sonorous bark filling the ... The first, the second, tiny tachometer arrow has noticed on a blue scale background, as if the ball on the ping-pong table. Spark rushed forward as it breaks away from the place of the puppy when it will be entered with a gathering bone. In addition, from decorative, his acne is at least 6070 km / h, can envy purebred hound. From the machine with a tiny 3-cylinder engine volume of just in 800 cubes, I did not expect any such.
However, the engine here turns out to be another. Looking under the hood, I, to my surprise (no signs speaking about the working volume on the body), discovered as many as four cylindrice. Act of 250 cubes each. Together with the new name, Spark got, along with 800-cubic, updated liter engine 65 liters. with. Now every of his grandforget is lucky only 12.2 kg. For comparison: 100-strong focus this indicator is 12.6 kg / hp. In the past six months, the liter motor is installed on Uzbek matiz. But specifically for spark, the engine is a little upgraded. Steel rockers replaced lightweight, from aluminum. Changed the intake manifold, improved the release system. Plus, they made shorter gear. As a result, acceleration until hundreds decreased by 1.2 seconds to 14.1 s. And together with a decrease with 0.39 to 0.34, the coefficient of aerodynamic resistance, it made it possible to reduce fuel consumption almost per liter for every 100 km.
Now, now and then overtaking the neighbors in the stream (the motor, naturally, it is necessary to twist up to 56 thousand for this), I regret only that the fuzzy work of the gearbox prevents even more frisky. The iron rod is as if planted on a rubber hinge. A little stronger pressed (it is especially noticeable in the second and third gear), and he continues to bend, even when the gears have already gone into engagement. Yes, and noise with a long ride in the cabin stands as if right with your ear, the screaming dog's voiced lan. Like Matiz, Sparkle really needs good sound insulation.
But with maneuverability, he is all in perfect order. Matiz unfolded literally on the nose scarf. Such and chevroletik. Purchasing on it is a pleasure. Or here's another plus. For a black toned barge, I did not notice that the left row goes onto the turn. But to slow down and wait until someone polite will miss me. A narrow (2530 cm modest in the shoulders of most cars) Sparcus had enough space within the strip, so as not to prevent cars rushing next to the neighborhood.
In a word, he really sincerely tried to please me. Why was the trouble, after a couple of hours I realized that I was walking with this yoo, but such a noisy, who retreating his narrow wheels is hardly every pit in the asphalt, the machines tires me.
I want a lot of money
Two days I honestly tried to find promised winnings in comfort and acute control. To do this, the rear suspension was modified on Spark: the beam is now not on the longitudinal, but on oblique levers. In the front suspension, gas shock absorbers were reconfigured, and the supports of the racks attached to the body were not bolted, but welding to increase rigidity. Alas, I did not see the result. Like Matiz, Spark noticeably shakes on irregularities. In the bold, he is pursued by large rolls diluted with early start of slip.
Quickly ride it even pleasure. According to the passport, it can accelerate to 156 km / h. I do not believe. Or direct for this should be long from Moscow to Peter itself. After 120 km / h, the dynamics completely skeys. And he finally dispelled, under the hill up to 130, I shouted the foot from the gas soon. If the asphalt is at least a little different from perfectly even, this crumble scarefully jumps on the bumps. For example, Panda, one of the few classmates spark in Russia, behaves on an uneven road much more confident.
Red, like white, does not require surcharge. Any of nine metallic will cost $ 100
You may argue that Panda is the road. So it is so. But after all, the Spark is cheap in any way. Our basic liter $ 10 915. And in metallic and with ABS already $ 11 445. Of course, the best safety, more modern appearance and a comfortable interior, not Uzbek, and the Korean passport is something yes. But isn't it too much? Spark for $ 1600 more expensive than Matiza-1.0. Moreover, Chevrolet has a car that costs almost the same money: Aveo's greater size with a more powerful engine will cost $ 11,490.
And you think the hunters will cover a lot of hunters?
Dear pleasures
Only spark-0.8 even more or less adequate price from $ 8490. Unlike the base Matiz for $ 7,000, it has a rear wiper, a trunk regiment, one pillow, belts with pretensioners, the trio of the rear head restraints. But for the car with an amplifier of the steering wheel, the central lock and front electric windows should be given already $ 9100. The air conditioner is asked by another $ 720, for the second pillow $ 250, and Spark-0.8 with ABS is already at least $ 10,390. As a bonus, you will get a CD magnet, a voicemier and adjustable in height driver's seat, but ... lush the air conditioner. Want coolness in the cabin, and avs, and music? Pay $ 11 110. On the ACP prepare $ 12 160. But automatic matiz can be bought for $ 89009600.
The minimum spark price is 1.0 $ 10 915. It can only be with mechanics. Air conditioning, music, two pillows are there. But ABS requires another $ 420. But pay extra $ 480 for the top version of the SX premium is already hardly worth it. Such is good primarily by the electric drive of the right mirror and rear windows for the budget kid explicitly excess.
PER
Big and economical motor, bright interior, maneuverability, modern means of passive safety
AGAINST
Fuzzy work MCP, cramped salon, tiny trunk, high price, bad sound insulation, modest speaker
Chevrolet Spark 1.0 (0.8)
Total information
Body, number of places / doors
Hatchback, 5/5.
Curb weight, kg
795 (775)
Length x Width x Height, mm
3495x1495x1500.
Base, mm.
2345.
The volume of the trunk, l
170-845
Speed, km / h
156 (145)
Acceleration time 0100 km / h, with
14.1 (18.2)
Highway Fuel Consumption / City, L / 100
4.7 / 7.2 (4.2 / 6.9)
Engine
Working volume, SMZ
995 (796)
Power, hp at rpm
65/5400 (51/6000)
Torque, kgmm at rpm
9.3 / 4200 (7.3 / 4400)
Chassis
Drive unit
on the front wheels
Transmission
mechanical 5-speed
Suspension:
Spring
in front
Independent, on the racks Mac-Ferson, with a transverse stability stabilizer
behind
dependent, elastic transverse beam with an amplifier
Steering
Rack type with amplifier
Brakes in front / rear
Disc / drum
Tires
155/65 R13
Car
0.18 $ / km
Alexey Sergeev, Maxim Goncharov
A source: Journal buy cars [19/2005]
