Test Drive Citroen DS3 since 2009 hatchback
Test drive Citroen DS3: What is not Chica?
Bright yellow Citroen DS3 is able to please gloomy in the morning no worse than his beloved dog, beloved cats and even just beloved
The first thing you pay attention to Citroen DS3 is a mechanical transmission gear lever. It is pleasant to the touch, it is conveniently located, the moves of the groove are short, but it is not attracted by the engraving on the rubber knob, indicating the direction of the gear almost erased! According to this secondary basis, it becomes clear that the car for its five thousand test kilometers passed through a lot, and dozens of driver's palms, firmly scorched in the handle, were pretty in the drawing. Must be, the car makes burn!?
And it is. The youngest of the premium line DS is whitish and movable, and the yellow color of the body is not only able to raise the mood to your owner even cloudy in the morning with a hangover, but also awakens the most pathent and lowest feelings to suffer. As a result, it is not necessary to fight with them, but with you not to succumb to these cheap provocations.
Citroen DS3 styground leaves indifferent viewers on the road. Strengthening the impression will help the mass of styling options, ranging from wheels, ending with the appliques on the roof.
On the empty Caifica country road much more. Citroen DS3 famously prescribes arcs and therefore, than numerous turns on the way, the more fun. There is no doubt that in time the open gas and the correctly chosen stage of the transmission will make the car for sure at the given steering wheel of the trajectory get out of the virage. The main thing is that the 1.6-liter turbo engine always worked on high speed, above three thousand exactly only there you can catch almost all 150 liters. with. Power and 240 nm of maximum torque. Ensuring the error, the stabilization system will enter the point not immediately, you will even have time to open your mouth and pronounce the word Mom (or some jogging), but the last syllable will dissolve in silence: ESP chips brakes and adjusts the trajectory for the driver.
The only drawback is three long turnover of the steering wheel. For such a small car, such a long steering path from the stop until the stop is unforgivable. Where you have to turn often, without intercepting the rim can not do. Side effect of accurate controllability Hard suspensions. Anyone will agree that the DS3 is created for the city, but each star of asphalt and the more standard for any locality, the surrounding policeman will force the body to shudder and sprinkle on the seams. And the non-standard ineptly represented and sticking up an artificial obstacle, who sticks out a half-meter, threatening to hook the front bumper skirt, will force you that you generally bought for the pretty appearance of the hatchback and did not acquire the crossover.
Even floor mats take part in creating the mood. Ergonomics of good, the front armchairs are comfortable, but noise insulation could be better.
You leave the car, look again on the body to the hells of the crossover and the lying policemen are good! There are, of course, the bustle. For example, I do not know who will occur to stick the roof of the car with these roof races, which someone accepts taxi for signs, inscriptions and do not understand what indicating letters and numbers. But without them, the statement of French designers on the uniqueness of each DS3 instance in the world would be wrong. They say that Identical models will be problematic on the road. Of course, you are sculpting instead of Nolik and Voila's unit: you have your own unique Citroen.
And in traffic jams from the surrounding cars, love to look into the salon and staring on the yellow console panel. If you are a woman, it may, and for the better, but in any other case, I want to toned the front windows as well as the rear. Too much attention.
If you keep turnover above average, then 150-strong Citroen DS3 turns into a small rocket. However, this rocket likes to ride exclusively for smooth coatings. On the bumps and bumps makes itself felt a tough suspension.
As a potential owner of the DS3, I appreciate the interior entourage from a different point of view. Let a simple magnit tape recorder from all other compact machines of the PSA Peugeot Citroen concern looks alien in comparison with the unique bends of the rest of the details, but tell me why there is no USB and / or Bluetooth in my top version of Sport Chic? These currently useful connector and the protocol are even in the Peugeot 408 sedan, which in the towns were dubbed budget, and in Citroen DS3 appear only for extra charge of 15 thousand rubles or for 25 thousand together with the subwoofer, which left 285 liters of the compact trunk, another part, Or coupled with a 7-inch color screen and navigation system, and it costs from 40 to 52 thousand depending on the originally selected configuration.
Despite the bunch of designer chips and in general, a good level of equipment for the banal in modern standards, the USB input and the Bluetooth protocol will have to pay extra. And the old block of the audio system, which was put in Peugeot 206 obviously does not fit into the glamor interior DS3.
Formally Citroen DS3 for five passengers. Two in front will be forced to pushed elbows on a narrow armrest, two from behind will be offset in the back of the front seats, after it is hardly squeezed into a narrow opening between the front chair and the central stand, and the third on the gallery is superfluous. In any case, they will not be able to talk calmly: noise from the outside penetrates all the corners of the car and the ears of passengers, even the sound of the radio tape recorder has to be louder than usual. Whose guilt here is more, silent insulation or 17-inch Bridgestone Potenza tires, it's hard to say.
The feeling of the premium eludes when you try to figure out the scant and not very clear menu of the side computer (the 7-inch display would have not hollow) when the front passenger is forced to keep the window in the window to fully close the glass (automatic closer is only at the driver, and he works Only down), when you turn on the maximum heated seats, and the leather chair for the entire trip still remains slightly warm.
The trunk is small - only 285 liters. Rear sofa folds in parts.
Attention to the trifles is too selective. From the pluses a deep glove box, which does not interfere with the knees, built-in air flavoring with a chromed washer sticking out of the console, speed limiter and cruise control, which are becoming increasingly important together with increasing fines for speeding out, and even the optimal point indicator for switching gear on dashboard. And still the hatchback spends in traffic jams no more than 7.5 liters of gasoline per hundred kilometers, so much eats and at a dynamic ride, and in the long trip the flow falls per liter-one and a half, so it is necessary to refuel the 50-liter tank.
The price of the basic version of Citroen DS3 with the engine of the THP 150 begins from 835 thousand rubles, and I should want to become a very extraordinary person to give such money for the class B. However, the owners of the same MINI Cooper motor (122 liters. And if you discard the image of the brand, then you will have to choose between the number of roof colors and disks, options for stickers on the body, and focus on your own taste. It is a pity that the bright images of Citroen DS3 and MINI still sweat in the light of the fog of our black and silver toned public.
Citroen DS3 1.6 THP MT Characteristics
general information
Year of release 2010.
Body Hatchback
Number of doors / places 3/5
Dynamics
Acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h, Cuekund 7.3
Maximum speed, km / h 214
Sizes and mass
Dimensions, mm 394817151458
Curb weight car, kg 1165
Permissible full weight, kg 1597
Wheel base, mm 2464
Road clearance, mm no data
The volume of the trunk is minimum / maximum, l 285/980
Engine
Inline engine type
Nutrition direct injection
Presence of supervision 1.
Motor location in front, transversely
Engine volume, cm3 1598
Number of valves 4.
Maximum power 150 hp at 6000 rpm
Maximum torque 240 nm at 1400 rpm
Transmission
Transmission type MCPP
Drive front
Suspension
Front Pendant Independent, Spring, McPherson
Rear suspension semi-dependent spring
Front brakes disc, ventilated
Rear brakes disk
Tires, discs
Front tires 205/45R17
Rear tires 205/45R17
Front discs no data
Rear discs no data
Fuel, flow
Fuel consumption of urban / country / mixed, L 9.4 / 5.1 / 7.3
Fuel type gasoline AI-95
Fuel tank capacity, l 50
Source: Carclub.ru.
