Daewoo Matiz 2001 test drive - 2005 hatchback

Fun hour

There were no clown costumes on us, we did not give out sweets and did not sing ditties, however, surrounding our crew, not only the children smiled, but for the most part sullen (due to bad weather?) Drivers of all kinds of vehicles ...
 
From him blows kindness and innocence. He is like a puppy - small, pot -bellied, funny and pretty. So I want to play with him, and then drink milk and put to sleep in a box. Why in a box? And he does not need more space. Matiz restored, as before, is small. To wash it, it takes two minutes: I spent a sponge of times - half a month clean, spent the second - all shines. By the way, the body is very convenient for washing: there are almost no flat details on it.
 
The salon of a small car is quite capacious. In it, as it turned out, four adults can accommodate, and even with comfort. Of course, you won’t fall apart, but you won’t feel yourself a sprat in a tomato sauce. Sitting equally conveniently in front and behind - the advantages of vertical, bus landing are affected. Matiz is generally similar to minivan and is not inferior to it in equipment.
 
The equipment of our machine is not in vain called Best: here is the air conditioner, four electric windows, and the radio, and the power steering, and the electric drive of the right external mirror. The last device - the trifle is pleasant, but it is not difficult to adjust this mirror without electricity - it is enough to straighten your hand at the elbow.
 
Here everything is at hand. If necessary, then the backs of the rear seats can be folded without getting up from the driver's seat. Moreover, both both and separately, thereby changing the volume of the trunk. In the usual state, it is small - it contains a couple of bags and a bag with provisions. If you increase the cargo compartment in the above way, a picnic table will also enter there.
 
But you won’t look under the hood from the place of the driver. You will still have to get out of the car. Ba! On the children's inertial machine, the power unit is more. The 796-cow three-cylinder engine cannot immediately be seen in the engine compartment. However, in the same way he looks at Daewoo Tico and there copes with his responsibilities very well.
 
First of all, we are at the gas station. As usual, we pour twenty, and - Oh miracle - the tank is almost complete! Maybe the sensor is lying? No, just the volume of the tank on Matiz is 35 liters. Of course, the less fuel on board, the easier the car, and the easier it is, the faster the start. Only one thing is alarming: the consumption of gasoline in this Daewoo in urban conditions is 8.4 liters per 100 km; A lot for a car of this class. However, with short dashes, the house - work - the house for a week is enough.
 
We leave the gas station, and at a traffic light, barely lit green, literally break off with a thorough of the front drive wheels. Here you have 796 cubes! 60 km/h gained seconds for nine. The result is not so hot, of course, but how much courage! The traffic accomplices rushed after the road were delighted: such a crumb, and what does it!
 
We make another jerk in the hope of accelerating more hard. However, a huge cork was ahead. The car river slowly flowed towards the center. Here the neighbor hesitated a little - lagged behind the one in front of the only half -corps. Do not yawn, brother, we are already ahead of you. And what is this hole between two trucks? The steering wheel to the left, right. Neature, so as not to catch mirrors, we squeeze here. Here it is, the advantage of small cars. If we were on the Zhiguli, we would stand like dear in this trap for forty minutes. And here is a small session of active rulers, and freedom.
 
Road repair is a serious matter, especially with us. If you dig, that's all at once, and if you lay the route of the detour, then certainly along the most broken streets. It is right - otherwise the allotment of the renovated road cannot be felt.
 
But today, the machinations of the road workers are only on hand - the best landfill to check the suspension and cannot be invented.
 
Slowly add speed. It shooks thirty and forty. At fifty - less, but rearranges. It does not shake sixty, but the suspension begins to break through. That's enough, otherwise the owners will have nothing to return. This is a minus of a short -flowing suspension: minor irregularities make her work, as they say, from edge to edge. Well, at least the wheels are on 13-inch alloy disks, and the unscalized mass is not so large. On the steel, it would probably be rearranged on every bump.
 
Yes, Matiz, off -road is not for you. But what could be expected from a small car, which was designed exclusively for traveling around the city and a civilized suburbs?
 
But how easy it is to park this machine! It seems, the protruding pocket, commandment!, And by sniffing there, the baby will doze between the gloves, until you need a vehicle again.
 
Text: Oleg Kalaushin
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [12/2001]