CHEVROLET SPARK test drive since 2010 hatchback
CHEVROLET SPARK 2011 Test Drive: Looking for Sparks
Kolesa.Ru was tested in St. Petersburg New Chevrolet Spark Star Star Blockbaster Transformers-3 and appreciated the prospects for soldiers and autobice in the conquest of the Russian market. The smallest crusader made another attempt to relocate from the image of Daewoo Matiz. It is already far from cheap, and not a completely unmarried car of a technologically incredited brand, to which nails are brought by the image of the most ascetic vehicle on the entire Russian market.
However, the roots of the new sparkle still go to Korea a new GM platform for ultra-compact cars was developed by the Asian GM-DAT compartment. But the design of the car was chosen by potential consumers in 2007 Internet users voted for one of three concepts (Beat, Trax and Groove), the first one became the first, which eventually gave life to the new Spark.
New Chevrolet Spark Star Cinema Screen
With access to the screens of each new film Transformers, the GENERAL MOTORS CULT is constantly updated with new followers. And finally, among cars drawn into disassembly changing the form of robots, there were models available on the European and Russian dau-yes, Spark, finally, was among them! Now the Russians will be able to say: my car was filmed in third transformers!. Although the role of the autobot Skids can hardly be attributed even to the second plan. True, a new series is already removed
With the take-off film engineers, the new Chevrolet Spark 2011, grew out of the subcompact segment, let it grow up with quotes. Without them, dimensions do not allow (length 3,640 mm, width 1 597 mm, height 1,552 mm), remaining within the framework of the tiny self-segment. But inside the spark is very spacious for its class. At the level of the shoulders, two convexed sedresses in front of it will feel, but there is plenty for heads and legs. It's amazing that in the back row you can sit quietly, I do not speak your decision to leave the cozy front chairs. The trunk is modest, but a pair of vertically delivered suitcases fit without problems, and if you fold the rear sofa (foldable in proportion 60:40), it is possible to carry items much larger.
Chevrolet Spack staffed not in compact By the level of equipment Spark, obviously abandoned the predecessor! In our test car there were front and side airbags, ABS, climate control, radio controls on the steering wheel, electric windows and electric windows, heated seats, and besides scooters, on-board computer design Yes, before the driver's eyes, only one familiar device orthodoxically round Speedometer, and all the rest of the road information comes with a strange console that has joined the speedometer to the right. Not counting the tachometer, the temperature of the air, odometer, and the distance that can be overcome on the remaining fuel are derived. And what is important: the readings of the eccentric device are perfectly visible through the rim of the steering wheel.
The configuration is with a motor 1.2. It is complemented by only mechanics, there is 1.0 with mechanics and machine gun. What do you please: quickly more complicated, or preferred, more comfortable?! Beginner drivers (and driver) are likely to choose a spark with a machine gun, and I probably will suit the car on the handle.
However, it was not difficult; The only trouble with which I encountered in a new test spark is an uninformative clutch pedal. Smoothly release it did not immediately immediately. Otherwise, everything is normal: the machine is assembled well, there were no foreign sounds anywhere, the knob buttons are pressed and spinning
SPARK weighing only 864 kilograms accelerates for 12 seconds to hundreds; Not lightning, of course, but also a sluggish 1.2-liter motor can not be called. The engine is typically gaining momentum up to the middle speed of the crankshaft, though approaching 4,500 rpm, its onslaught will noticeably fade. Brakes are in perfect order: even urgently slowing down on dry asphalt, I did not hear a screenshot of rubber, nor the Cod of ABS.
Chevrolet Spark is not a sample of comfort in motion; Noise and vibration insulation still have much to be improved, on bad roads, its suspension most often copes with single obstacles, but sometimes pierces. But in the management of the most compact Chevrolet obedient as a rocke horse. The reactions to the steering wheel are fast and understandable, and rolls are very minor, not the fact that the last generation of sparkle. That's where she is a spark! It seems that the baby matured in many respects. I wonder if it affected it at his price?
New Chevrolet Spark 2011: Prices
Basic Spark can be bought for 379,000 rubles. For this money, you can get a 1.0-liter motor with mechanics and a basic set of useful options: air conditioning, power steering, front electric windows, radio tape recorders with 2 speakers, front airbags. The LS version with a machine gun and a wider range of goods is 441,000 rubles, and the top version 1.2 with the MCPP is similar to those participating in the test drive, will cost 481,600 rubles.
Competitors Chevrolet Spark on the Russian market:
Kia Picanto.
PEUGEOT 107.
The new Chevrolet Spark is provided to the Test by Atlant-M Laht, the official Chevrolet dealer.
Posted by: Alexander Korchenko
Photo: Roman Stunnin
A source: Magazine "Wheel" [August 2011]
