Daewoo Matiz 2001 test drive - 2005 hatchback

Love triangle

Michael! Believe me, such cars do not choose wisely! Because well, this is not a car at all! On the radio, they say that only suckers drive on the Volga. And Matiz is not a car, but some kind of egg!
After such parting words, the chef wanted, of course, to work even better. But, in the end, not everyone should compare the jaguars with the Maybachs someone should pay attention to both suckers and eggs. Especially if their prices are almost the same
Values \u200b\u200bare abstract, prices are specific
For the hooligan comparison of the Volga with Matiz, there are at least three objective reasons. A comparable price of times, both do not like the chef two, and, finally, I like both three
The last circumstance, of course, is the funniest. After all, if the sympathy for the Uzbek DEU resembles a kind of service flirting, which was drawn for a year and a half, then the private -owned relationship legalized three years ago. Almost like Chekhov: wife Medicine, mistress literature and to who more sympathy in a kind of love triangle? Hmm ...
So Gaz 3102 or Dau Matiz? Incidentally, both of the fuel injection is distributed, the compression degree of 9.3, the gearbox is five -speed, the front brakes are disk, the rear drum. Even the number of places in the cabin is the same five! Well, okay, let's figure it out,
What are we paying for?
In fact, why prestige? For comfort? For power? All this is somehow incomplete and inaccurately. It is more correct to say: a person pays money for his idea of \u200b\u200bthe product!
Let's start with Matiz. Some buy it as a bright toy for his wife, daughter, or, say, for other familiar women, let them have fun. Others see in it just a vehicle with a guarantee for 5 years or 100,000 km. The third for transporting its own person on city traffic jams will be made of absolutely any Nenishkaya machine acquiring Matiz, they simply save! The fourth, on the contrary, are ready to give up a penny, because they see in this machine the only chance for themselves to travel in this life at least some new foreign car. And someone also needs a second car for their stable.
And why does the Apologist Volga pay the same money? One still sees in it the magnificent iceberg, who has broken off in a past life from the monolith of the Great Empire. The second needs a car for all occasions and on vacation to the whole family, and to puff around the city, and load a ton of potatoes ... The third always dreamed of a representative car and was trying with all his might to turn the Volga into a Merce. The fourth in life was used to repairing my car in a taxiopark, guided by some higher considerations
By the way, about the leadership.
What is written with a pen?
We will immediately say the troubles regarding the instructions shine only wolves. If you bought Matiz, then before the start of the movement, warm his motor with half a minute and forward! Everything is much more serious with the Volga
Before moving, it is required to warm up the ZMZ-4062 engine to 60C. In the winter, this will take about 1015 minutes. And the Volga with the 402nd idle engine may never warm up and describes the procedure for starting such a motor (click here, cover there) takes a dozen paragraphs of the text and significantly differs from the European, turn the ignition key. The Volga and the concept of running -in it lasts 2500 km. All this time you need to monitor the temperature of the front wheels, adjust the bearings, as well as tighten the weakened bolts and nuts.
Uzbek with Nizhny Novgorod? It is always interesting to compare incomparable. We will try to evaluate the Volzhanka and Uzbek at different angles of vision.
Repairs. This round is behind the Volga. Even the injection car will joyfully begin to repair anywhere in the post -Soviet space. Buying a new glass in the store instead of a broken is also not a problem. But Matiz, not everyone, will recognize in the face without Uzdeu Service with the same glass will have to be hard.

Reliability and predictability. The absolute advantage of Matiz is almost indestructible (unless, of course, every 10,000 km to call on the aforementioned service). The Volga is normal, perhaps, I have never seen it, as a rule, go to another malfunction.
On the new (from the store) Matiz you can immediately go anywhere. On the Volga, this is excluded by definition: you can’t put your hands. She has a bad habit of breaking ...

Prestigion-Imiji mod. A slight advantage of Matiz. Today, the most ardent fan, and a luplable animal is a really fashionable toy, can call a prestigious Volga today.

Universality-exchanging. Grooming on the glasses after the Volga. Of course, it is not easier to ride on Matiz on Matiz, however, for all occasions, it will not be suitable for everyone. The trip together and light is easily, but it is better to put construction and delivery business on the Volga.

Puftability and vandal resistance. Neither one nor the other car use the special attention of the hijackers: a draw. And in vandal resistance in front of the Volga on it and smaller plastic, and a stray proletarian, it does not irritate so much.

The attitude of other participants in the movement. Round unconditionally behind the Volga. To make sure of this, it is enough to try to leave the alley to the wide highway Matiz immediately subjected to collective collapse of sound, light and indecent gestures. But the Volga's stuck nose streamlines smoothly, like small ice floes envelop an iceberg

Comfortable speed. It's about comfortable, not maximum speed! In my opinion, Matiza should not climb above 100110 km/h, especially if the road is famous for its rut. On the Volga, you calmly go to about 130 km/h further the struggle for survival begins.

Not like everyone else. Here, of course, GAZ 3102 is ahead. The car is already a rather rare label of the body and all that, and if it is also a tuned Uzbek, take them, I don’t want to, and you just can’t buy the district Volga. However, this is my personal opinion.
How much to hang in grams?
The Volga is approximately twice as much as the matisa in mass and three times in litr and power, so the result of comparing the economy is absolutely predictable. It is generally accepted that the Volga eats 1517 liters, but Matiz in any situation calmly fits at 45. But really?
We will check once again without measuring equipment, in the most ordinary conditions on the road from Moscow to St. Petersburg and vice versa. On the way there, we will try to follow the well -known recipe: smooth acceleration, a minimum of braking, the fifth gear and more often climb over a hundred, no matter how favored the situation. But back we will go a little cut for comparison.
After the Moscow refueling under the cork, the Volga first blinked a light bulb only under Peter on the odometer was 707 km. The next exile on the neck climbed 58 liters. Total 8.2 l/100 km. The return road has already eaten 9.5 l/100 km. There is nothing to chase up the dozens
And Matiz? The imposing regime resulted in 653 km on the odometer, compensated by 32 liters at the gas station: a total of 4.9 l/100 km. Very good, but absolutely not surprising. But the cost of gas to the floor immediately brings the antipodes to bring the flow rate to 8 l/100 km costs nothing. As you can see, the Volga may not eat too much, and Matiz is not so few
Now let's recall what it was like during the experiment to transplant.
Back and forth?
Frankly, it’s hard. After daily trips on the official matise, the Volga meets with tight pedals, an incorrect parking brake, to which you need to reach somewhere forward, and, oddly enough, a feeling of some tightness in the driver's place. However, after half an hour you are finally extended to the right of the hand, the hand does not rest against the glass. And when the fifth gear is turned on, you do not touch the passenger's knees even on purpose
In terms of the ergonomics of the Volga, Matiza is not suitable for the outlets. Blind and faceless keys, ill-conceived heating and ventilation management (ZR, 2003, No. 7), someone on the gas should be very ashamed for this.
However, with all that I like how the black nose of the Volga dissects the space. I at one time perceived the need to transfer to the service matiz as a link from the guards part of Peter to a cluttered garrison near Revel. Narrow, frivolous, toy, however, is quite appropriate and another analogy is just light sneakers after the usual boots. Convenient and modern.
Can't you love two at once?
But I nevertheless convinced the chef that neither suckers nor eggs have a relationship with these cars. Well, not that I really convinced, but almost
So what to choose? If you want to ride only Matiz! Like the Volga Prepare more money and immediately change what will flow daily, fall off and rattling. How to call it after sales preparation or tuning, it does not matter. Only such a car will cost much more than the most sophisticated Matiz, and therefore it is he who won in our competition. But
But personally, I always wanted to have an individual sewing machine retro. For the sake of this, and the overcoming of the engine, and the new salon, and the noise insulation, and the Finnish muffler, and the microclimate. For all that matisa, I am ready to give the highest appreciation, he honestly earned it.
GENEALOGICAL TREE
The Volga GAZ 3102 claimed elitism before birth. Getting into the world in 1981, she immediately crouched: they are not sold to private traders! In 1996, the unreliable forcamer engines gave way to the ancient ZMZ-402 and 4021. However, two years earlier, thirty-first tried on the sixteen-claws of the ZMZ-4062. Slowly the box found the fifth gear, the bridge is an unusual crankcase, disk brakes with floating single -cylinder brackets, new suspension, tires, wheels and interior appeared. During this time, the ordinary Nizhny Novgorod model turned from GAZ 24 into 24-10, then into 31029, then at 3110 and, finally, in 31105, but 3102 still stood apart.
As for Matiz, he was originally from simple dogs, what elitism there in 1988, Koreans mastered the assembly of Suzuki-Alto microphores, dubbed her in 1998 in 1998 was replaced by Matiz. The platform remained Japanese, but the interiors of the excellers arose from the concept-cabin of Chinkvect Licculcholla Maestro Jujaro. In 2000, the Koreans conducted the restyling of the car, and a year later they blessed its assembly at Uzdaoavto in Asaka near Andijan.
 
 
Kolodochkin Mikhail
Photo: Konstantin Yakubov
 

A source: The magazine "Driving"