Citroen C2 test drive since 2003 hatchback
Sexo-Drive
The smaller the car, the more he has, as it turns out, talents per kilogram of weight. King of Close Lane
Even the gods have difficult days. I understood this well in one of the cramped Moscow lanes, where the janitor’s shovel rarely gets. The silver Bavarian five wandered in a tight tunnel of parked cars. The driver now and then slowed down and was aimed at whether he would fit into a narrow opening between the gazelle and a lamppost? No, too small the earth. But this is still that finally the mood of the guy ruined my Citroen-S2. I repent, I could not deny myself the pleasure, dashingly rolling up the parking bimmer, a car perpendicular to the border. Fortunately, with a length of 3.6 m and dimensions allow, and conscience does not torment. But most of all the soul warmed that C2 knows how to throw a knee and abruptly than parking into an needle ear.
My dad is the most honest rules
The fact that Citroen-C2 is amazing, there is no doubt. What is the youngest in the family of a double chevron? Three -door hatchback on a shortened C3 platform? Undoubtedly. City vehicle, not afraid of traffic jams and close parking lots? You are already in the know. The first car in the career of a novice driver? Maybe, but this is not the main thing ... It's just that this small one, who debuted in last year's Geneva in the image of a rally prototype, is primarily a means of satisfying driver's ambitions.
And at first there was Sakso. Or Sexo, as the name of the smallest Citroen British pronounce. You believe that the name of the wind instrument is more suitable for this mini-carrier than the main human instinct? But meanwhile, it was in Britain Saxso with the VTR/VTS index for several years in a row that the best -selling hot hatchback. The recipe for its popularity is affordable price, groovy engines, a brisk chassis and a modest mass. An ideal cocktail for a Pepsi generation that has grown from short pants and has started hunting for short skirts. C2 with the VTR prefix is \u200b\u200bready to increase the exploits of Papashi Sexo on the military front of the races around the cafe. Already if only because it is 20 liters. With. more powerful.
From the boy from the finger and further The first carpus car that devoted, if not Porsche and lotuses, then Mercedes and BMW, is considered to be a classic mini. The English casket, which visited the designer of the formula 1 John Cooper, turned into a demon, who did not give anyone a descent. The initiative of the mini-cuper-s was supported by the Italians. The charged bun on the basis of the Fiat-600- Abart (yes, the same ancestor of the hunchbacked Zaporozhets) gave both on rally routes and races around the cafe.
A worthy place in this row is occupied by the French. Peugeot 106-RALLIL, Actually accurate copy of the SAKSO-VTR/VTS, with red upholstery of the floor and a modest 1.3-liter motor in the early 90s was considered the best hot class A.
Hey, bespectacled, take off the glass! We will beat And the outfit of C2 is much more stylish. One word dandy. Firstly, radically black. This, if you want, is a challenged color to Bimmer with a tricolor on a license plate. The second, cast discs, 16 inches, by the way, like one penny. The third gloomy look from under the square lenses of the head light to give or take it, Ray-Ben Schwarzenegger from an imperishable second terminator. Agree, Vidok calling and, I will add from myself, causing for the most part a very defined reaction and well turn, to the son
However, while the opinion of those around me on the drum. I am sitting behind the wheel and when it was! I literally revel in the interior design. This is a style! That's where the Japanese learn! Taking the C3 salon as a basis, Citroen designers gave him aggressive, sports, memorable and bright features. Seats, for example, just delight. The chubby colored rollers actually only imply side and thigh support, but nevertheless look just great.
You do not need your own, and very generous, a portion of charm here, look at the photo lever of the gearbox, as well as contrasting inserts in the doors. What is called, in its place and the switching key of the semiautomatic box of the sensor-drive located behind the steering wheel. Well done guys, everything turned out great!
The volume of the trunk with folded seats is huge by the standards of the class 879 liters
The levers of the gearbox of the sensor-drives are extremely elegant
Rudeness fight!
No, well, this is already at any gate at a traffic light, from where you get, in a matter of centimeters from my bumper, a stupid snout, dirty, tightly toned twelfth. And everything is why everything is from the lack of education. If you know, a man, and at the same time, to all those who offend the kids shamelessly cut, they do not pass shamelessly and simply do not put in a penny that C2-VTR is very well adapted for this life. Well, gas!
The twelfth in surprise has already stalled. Honestly, I myself experienced something like shock, for the first time drowning the right pedal to the floor. Have you traveled on the map at least once in my life? So, a feeling, as if a chair is pulled out from under you, should be familiar. 110 forces of a 16-valve engine as if God is not the weight of what power. But multiplied by modest dimensions and small C2 mass, these numbers turn into visible power. Before they could look around, all the zabiyaks remained far behind, and the tachometer arrow was already snapping on the limiter.
Of course, almost 11 seconds to a hundred, by and large, is by no means a record result. Another thing is that from a modest shell, you expect at best the dynamics of the classic models of the Volga plant. And I already want a power motor for 25 powerful!
Half -mechanics or semi -automatic? The semi-automatic box of the sensor-drive with an electromechanical clutch drive is well known from the C3 model. The pros and cons of such a box have long been known. On one side of the scales, the absence of the adhesion pedal, the possibility of both sequential transfers and completely automatic, on another unpleasant jerking during switching.
For a city car, a decent option, but for a sports shell, however, there is no need to choose yet, because the most powerful C2 in Russia is offered exclusively with a sensor-drive.
Margin of safety However, while the French, the French keep the fish silence about the hottest VTS version. But I believe the city! Because, firstly, buyers require, and secondly, the C2 chassis is now ready for a more powerful motor. So, say, VTR brakes borrowed from the 136-horsepower Peugeot-206-S16. And this is noticeable after the first acquaintance.
Remember my word, stomping the brake pedal for yourself more expensive. You need to do this carefully differently on the belts. It breaks into battle and suspension. Unlike C3, McEferson in front and the torsion beam are in the back in the back of the uncompromising fret and deal with transverse rolls at a time and hold the road tenaciously. If there is a claim, then only to the steering. Still, 3.2 turns from the stop to the stop is much for the aggressor machine, and the amplifier lacks transparency in communicating with the driver. But otherwise, a wonderful marquise
Will we take? An attractive, moderately powerful, agile car is a sufficient set of qualities for a warm reception on the market. And I can imagine the wild delight of the British teenagers who receive the keys to the new C2-VTR. Moreover, on the foggy albion, a 110-horsepower mesh can be bought with a manual box. But in our country where a small car is still perceived not as a conscious choice of a person tired of traffic jams, but as a number from the series for what was enough, I bought, alas, I do not see a cloudless future from C2. In addition, the grace of affordable price bypassed the smallest Citroen side. After all, a 1.6-liter VTR is cheaper than for 14,500 euros.
Citroen C2 1.6 Sensodrive
general information
Length x width x height, mm
3666x1659x1461
Trunk volume, l
166-224/879
Radius of turning, m
5.5
Speed, km/h
195
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, with
10.9
Fuel consumption, l/100 km city/highway
8.3/5.2
Engine
Working volume, SMZ
1587
Power, L.S. at rpm
110/5750
Torque, kgsm at rpm
14.9/4000
Price, euro
15 100
Mikhail Medvedev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
A source: Magazine "Limousine" [03/04]
