Daewoo Matiz 2001 test drive - 2005 hatchback
Automatism
The title was invented long before meeting with the main character of the publication. It was thought: if Dau Matiz someday acquires an automatic gearbox, then the term automation and derivatives from it will come in handy. And the acquaintance turned out to be unexpected: the golden editorial matisa just before the New Year ended the near light of headlights - I had to call on a warranty. You know, this is a place where the car is brought to life, and you wander from corner to corner and periodically distract the station workers with smart questions ... - When will the locomotive box appear? - The most important person on the service wrinkled his forehead. - Yes, how can I tell you - in general, it has already appeared ... Just keep in mind - this is the first experimental batch, so we can not inform the official characteristics of the car yet. That's when we measure everything, approve and agree - then we ask for mercy.
After such a statement, begging automatization for at least half a day was already a matter of principle.
Amazonian greens
Indeed, the passport of the vehicle did not contain any new information - the usual DEU Matiz color Amazonian greens. Under the hood, the same three cylinders: at first glance you will not understand that something automatically lurked in the bowels. The salon is different. It is impossible not to notice the nail nail in the form of a sticking box of the box - everything is like in adults. Famous modes - in addition to the alphabet drives and parking, we note the provisions 2 and L. The deuce involves only two programs (dirt, snow - you never know), and L - only one: this is when it will have to be very hard. There is also a button overdate - to turn off the fourth gear. I let the motor, take off my leg from the brake - the car is worth it ... why?
“The box has not yet warmed up,” comments an experienced colleague. “We’ll ride a little - he will recover and go to idle.”
The wisdom turned out to be right - after ten minutes everything came back to normal. And the ride on the world -hearted and damaged streets behind the Paveletsky station immediately placed the first accents - grace! Instead of the usual twig between the clutch, brake, first gear and neutral, if not a children's toy, then something very close. If you want to go, press the right pedal, you don’t want to - left, that's all. An ideal thing for pretty women ...
“Women should like it,” the experienced guesses my thoughts. - In the city, in traffic jams, shopping - what is needed. Of course, if an exorbitant price is broken for this machine, another thing ...
As for the price, I already threw a fishing rod - useless. Representatives of the company shrug, and in the cupor conversations there are formulations like: plus a thousand dollars. I think so it will be. By the way, our Amazonian greens are the most sophisticated option - in addition to the machine gun there is an air conditioner, a full electric package and even a lambda -zond under the hood. At the time of writing, the maximum price of manual mates was $ 7800, so consider it yourself. Meanwhile, the gardens go to the embankment of the Moscow River - it is surprisingly empty. Gas to the floor - Matizik thought ... Yeah - it came: let's go, go ... No, the miracle did not happen - the manual box is clearly faster. The automatic machine lives its own life - know it clicks under an unusual motor roar for me: I never twisted it on the editorial car. But the habitual acceleration by my standards does not work - but a pity.
There is an experienced one behind the wheel - he did not drive only on the moon. I'm waiting for a contemptuous f ... and I don’t hear. On the contrary - they say, a completely normal four -hand. The nature of the work, despite the weak motor of the 51 horse, is quite adequate - on more powerful and serious machines, the boxes often act worse. And here everything is quite modern, but with a bunch of useful modes. Normal machine: There are no complaints. However, we can call into the editor and interview their matrizers - what will they say?
The responsible Matizovod joyfully threw emergency pieces of paper and personally made a couple of circles on the nearby alleys of the lane. Verdict: I would take it for a wife at least now, but for myself ... I would still leave a manual version for myself. Why? Yes, all because - sometimes I want to frolic ...
Matizovodar smoke could afford during working hours only one circle around the editorial office. The tests ended with an urgent call - they say, what is needed! But the constant links of colleagues to the sexual orientation of the new Uzbek-Korean toy only fueled the desire to test it in somewhat different way ...
One shoe As they say - do not understand correctly: just one friend recently got, let's say, a driver’s license. Like how much, the question is different - however, it is clear that her driving skills, to put it mildly, is not very good. If outside the city, but in a straight line, on an empty highway, then with great pleasure, but if where to enter -go, slow down and constantly switch something, then we don’t love it and avoid this in every possible way - it is better with squeezed clutch at a traffic light Surrender ... And if you apply shock therapy with Amazonian greens? I ask for the wheel, madam ...
Did the motor started? Did you transfer the selector to the drive? And now you let go of the pedal and go - and with the guarantee that nothing will stall at the intersection, it will not slip out on the rise and will not roll back on its own, no matter how hard you try. And all this is the movement of the right shoe alone ...
Have you seen a sincerely happy woman for a long time? And I saw ...
So when?
It should be expected by access to automatism no earlier than spring - unless, of course, it will take place. The main obstacle can be the price of a baby - a thousand dollars mentioned in passing can outweigh all the advantages of the novelty. In order for future buyers to prepare in advance for the worst, I remind you of another minus of all the machines taken together: ceteris paribus, fuel consumption will certainly jump ...
However, we will not about sad. Serial cars will appear - we will go to the landfill, feel, smears and give out real numbers. And to share the skin of the unknown ... Sorry, it is too early for an inexperienced matisa.
In the stream of automatism, not a single detail is released - they say that now they are full everywhere. Only a very trained ear will catch a characteristic noise when accelerating the baby ...
On the automatis, you can drive not only in shoes, but also in the boots - the pedal node got rid of the third superfluous and became much more convenient.
What is the box here? That's it: it and I know that there is an automaton ...
Hero of the day - AKP selector. The first impressions are positive - the box is quite modern. The number of modes is like large.
Mikhail Kolodochkin. Photo: Konstantin Yakubov
A source: The magazine "Driving"
