Test Drive Chevrolet Viva 2004 - 2008 Sedan

Will Viva come to life?

In the fact that Chevrolet-Viva sooner or later was tuning, there was no doubt. Question What?
After remembering its origin, I wonder how much the Russian designers will pay attention to the new Russian model, and take advantage of the ideas of foreign professionals. After all, essentially Viva is the same Opel Astra, for which many attached sets have already been created.
A PLACE UNDER THE SUN
As a result, everything happened exactly or almost so. Life has made its own adjustments: the prices for Viva were leaning preliminarily up and burned demand for decent, in general, the car. No wonder that local tuning atelier was ignored by the local tuning studio. Or maybe in vain?
After all, most of the tests that this car falls, it is distinguished by its characteristic features: Viva loses to modern classmates with the size of the cabin, the volume of the trunk and a little comfort of the suspension. But does it take a spacious ship that specifies in a long road?
In the end, all the listed viva shortcomings are inherent in cars for an active driver for the majority of more stringent, less spacious, but at the same time they can delight someone who loves and knows how to quickly ride. Now, with this position, let's see that in the asset of any viva. There is a powerful and trapped motor, chain brakes, the collected suspension it also noted our experts (SM, 2005, No. 6). So why does the car fall into one clip with Korean sedans?
Constructors took the designers to correct the marketers. And they followed the same logic: Vivi should be presented as a car for an active driver, in every way emphasizing high running quality. Requires external confirmation please! The court tuning atelier Opel Irmsher AutoBilbau agreed to supply kits for the joints that make the appearance of the machine more energetic. So there were two prototypes of Viva, in the title of which the word adrenaline is present, as they say, unnecessary. One of the tuning versions was presented at the Motor Show in St. Petersburg, and shortly before that we managed to get the dose of adrenaline driving her twins.
Delicate intervention
Viva got rid of averaged appearance, because of which it was not easy to highlight in the stream, and now the appearance of the car explicitly hints at the hidden potential. Instead of full-time bumpers, Irmshevsky got up, stylish thresholds, mirrors and a small spoiler appeared on the trunk lid. The picture is complemented by sixteen-seamy wheels with the IRMScher logo, which smeared the low-profile tires Michelin, and, of course, the color of scarlet, like blood saturated with adrenaline. From under the rear bumper, the dual pipe of the silencer looks out of the already familiar Litera I capital in the name of the tuning studio.
A couple of surprises waiting in the cabin. The tuning version allocate the corporate steering wheel, the pads on the pedals and the door lock buttons resembling the polished metal of Zippo lighters. You do not pay attention to the chairs at exactly until the body feel their convenience. It turns out, the siduns are here from the OPC of the Opel sports units!
In the movement of viva is familiar to noisy, on low-profile tires, it repeats the profile of the road quite details. This is especially noticeable on a shallow asphalt comb. Well, at least that such sites come across extremely rarely we stumbled upon a similar place to shoot. At the same time I remembered the kind words standard brakes working in collaborating with tenacious tires. ABS turned on on time on the brink of wheel lock, providing maximum slowdown. Although the hot version inherited a lack of basic modifications: the pedal node is quite close, and the accelerator pedal is located much lower than the brake.
The turns of Viva makes it possible on a fairly high speed, and if the front axis will begin to demolish the front axle, it is enough to cover the gas. The car is so confidently holds on the road, which will not think to scare the driver with a sudden drift.
Of course, Viva-Adrenaline is not an extreme sports car. The standard 1.8 liter motor is eagerly spinning, but without pronounced pickup. Speecually revenge on the tail on the asphalt on it is also problematic, but to the Tail of Mazda 6 in the test label lag behind hopelessly.
Nevertheless, the main issue remains the cost of adrenaline modification. If it is saved at the level of the standard GLS modification, the circle of admirers of dynamic cars will receive an almost non-alternative offer in this segment. But there is already information that Tuning Viva will be significantly more expensive. Will the GM-AvtoVAZ marketers come on again on the same rake?
 



Vadim Nikishev
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"