Daewoo Matiz test drive since 2005 hatchback

Two to zero eight

The car should be large. It seems that this statement loses relevance. Statistics echoes are still more willing to buy small cars, inexpensive, economical, nimble, simple in management.
The most affordable not only in the class, but also in our market, the Russian eye. VAZ 11113 (authorship belongs to the Volga factory) produced two enterprises for a test a car from Naberezhnye Chelny fell. The closest to the price of a classmate Daewoo Matiz is collected in Uzbekistan.

Details on the packaging
Oka does not pretend to be the most charming and attractive affects the advanced model age. But the colors are pleasing to the eye for example, a test car of a pleasant light shade with a metal tint, which is recorded in the documents with silver willow. Recently, the OKU in Naberezhnye Chelny is painted on the Durr imported line and given a five -year guarantee from through corrosion on the body. But if an additional anticort can not be done by trusting the manufacturer, then it is better to install the shelters.
The baby is collected, like many modeling models, carelessly. The gaps between the details are uneven, the bumpers are screwed crookedly, the doors are closed only on a scale. Yes, and opening them is not very convenient: tight handles are tight. And God forbid, fingers with manicure! By the way, it was not possible to slam the hood the hood the first time either.
Matiz tries to look like a real foreign car: body parts are well fitted, the doors are slammed easily and quietly. With a careful examination on the paintwork, you find a shagrin. But judging by the experience of many years of operation of the Uzbeks, enamel and factory anticorus reliably protect the metal from rust, even without additional processing.

For internal use
The test eye, more precisely, is different from most domestic micro-lines running along the roads. For example, a new panel with a dashboard from VAZ 2110. It looks so quite decent and precisely noble than a shallow torpedo. The glove compartment is a very tiny ski cap on top of the gloves.
The seats of the Oka-lady are more convenient than the usual frame of the previous, and the stuffing is original. However, the problem is precisely in the frame, which we know firsthand the flimsy structure from a strong blow folds like a card house. By the way, fastening the belt is not easy to fasten far from behind and in addition will be deployed from the driver.
Inside the matisa is solid, like outside. The salon was assembled neatly, there are no obvious flaws, at least at first glance. A few devices are well read, keys and levers at hand. Eh, the glove compartment also disappointed: such a large cover, and the department is not deep at all. They say the truth, a glove box.
The driver's seat of Matiz is a homely cozy one you can’t call the back is narrow, the pillow is short, a weak lumbar back. In general, a little more convenient than that of Oka. Alas, small cars often suffer from such shortcomings. True, back the seat shifts quite far from the wheel, drivers of medium height and even higher will sit comfortably.
The review in Matiz is worse, mainly due to powerful front and rear racks. In both cars, the side mirrors can be adjusted from the cabin, but in the lady they consider very narrow, half blind. We warn the future owners of domestic low -commandies about another problem. To move the large side glass VAZ 11113, you will need to strain the muscles. Over time, it is overwhelmed, crookedly rises in the opening, plastic handles are turning.
It doesn’t matter to both opponents with safety: neither in the DEU (this cheap configuration), nor in the Oka there are no rear head restraints. The latter, in addition, the back ends just above the waist! And, of course, the penalties of the Russian car for the entrance-output into the rear seat. After Matiz, you feel very much the lack of doors!

Walk like a walk!
Oka resembles rolling cards. Firstly, the characteristic of the digging engine sound. Secondly, the accelerator pedal with two basic provisions so as not to be chopped (many strive to offend the little one!), We have to keep gas in the floor. Not the most convenient and comfortable mode, given that the programs are not always included the first time. It is as if with a rubber drive to put on a long -flowing pedal with a rubber drive, and the baby slows down smoothly. Against her background, the ideal brakes of the Uzbek seem reliable and tenacious.
Matiz, looking for a 800 cubic motor, energetically starts from the traffic light well-drawn fifty horses do not allow to feel flawed in the stream. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to twist the engine to the limiter. Of course, if the salon is full of people or packed luggles, agility will decrease.
The engine cannot be called quiet, and vibrations from the three -cylinder unit penetrate the salon. True, a motor is started from a banded and works evenly. The heart beats exactly in dying convulsions. At the stops, it seems that the engine is about to die out and it really stalls. Services offer their favorite service to change candles. And this is in a car that did not run even hundreds of kilometers?
Matiz really does not like fossa, tram tracks, lying policemen. A hard short -flowing suspension will quickly shake, if not a soul, then extra pounds. The steering wheel is quite light even without hydraulic power, which is installed in expensive trim levels.
It is more likely to maneuver on the Oka, the steering mechanism is also pulled on the test machine. Until the first maintenance, you will have to ride so later adjust or develop. But the suspension is better: passengers shakes less, and at a bend the car does not strive to rush into the ditch.
Oka has a serious plus of it can be presented on a rural big man. Matiz is only suitable for even city streets: do not go fishing with painted bumers! Only renewers delight with scratches, cracks, damaged details. After all, the road clearance at the Uzbek is more modest, about 2030 mm, in addition, there are more protruding and easily vulnerable places on the bottom.
So, you have 100 thousand rubles in your pocket and you need a small car: buy a bucket or take the missing amount (almost the same cheap Uzbek about 190 thousand rubles) on a loan for Matiz? Of course, there is no unambiguous answer, first of all, from their material capabilities. After all, borrowed money will have to be returned with interest.
The flip side of the accessibility of the Oka is low reliability. After the warranty period, the Russian model is able to ruin a poor owner on frequent repairs, especially if you serve it in the service. In fact, also interest on the loan ...

Future owners Daewoo Matiz and Oka
The factory warranty for the OKA 30 thousand km or 2 years, for DEU 20 thousand km or 1 year, depending on what will come earlier. Many dealers offer an expanded guarantee. TO-1 (2 thousand km) for matisa and Oka in the capital with consumables costs, respectively, 2300 and 2500 rubles, TO-2 (10 thousand km) 3200 and 1700 rubles, TO-3 (20 thousand. km) 5600 and 3300 rubles, TO-4 (30 thousand km) 5600 and 2400 rubles.

SUMMARY
General assessment 6.6
Oka is an inexpensive vehicle for those who are not afraid of difficulties. We do not recommend women and novice drivers.
+ Low price, relatively inexpensive service and spare parts, an energy -intensive suspension, a decent road clearance.
- The low quality of the assembly and spare parts, mediocre dynamic characteristics, weak and slurred brakes, there is no neutralizer.

SUMMARY
General assessment 7.3
Daewoo Matiz the cheapest imported car in the Russian market. As befits an inexpensive foreign car, quite reliable and comfortable.
+ A rich selection of configurations and colors, a spacious salon for this class, a catalytic neutralizer in the exhaust system.
- An uncomfortable suspension, weak brakes, noisy.

Maxim Sachkov: Dau Matiz is exactly as better than Oka as more expensive. The largest minus of the countrywoman is the low quality of the assembly and spare parts. And I consider this drawback much more significant than all that we found with Daewoo.

 
 




Maxim Sachkov
 

A source: The magazine "Driving"