Test Drive Daewoo Nexia (Kletn) 1995 - NV Sedan

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Buying an inexpensive foreign car. This is always a compromise caused by a hot desire to be dedicated from the rational of the problems of domestic cars and at the same time get the opportunity to ride a new one, only your car. Constantly growing sales of budget foreign cars indicate that people who are ready to go on such a compromise.
 
Daewoo Nexia has already headed the list of the most sold foreign car cars. Repeatedly upgraded Opel Kadett, although it is obsolete, morally, but still quite consistent with the general ideas about what a foreign car should be: reliable, with a responsible multi-year warranty and even if not very large, but still a well-tangible list of foreign exchange options.
 
However, there are buyers, ready to pay some more, in order to exacerbate such a sweet feeling of a new foreign car, and for those who want creative Uzbeks working at the Uzdaewoo enterprise, prepared special nonxies in the performance of DOHC.
 
The renewed Nexia is simple enough: the body of a 16-valve machine is decorated with moldings, a plastic pad on the trunk lid and a new grille, and the glasses are toned. In addition, the Supplusion is super-rich in Uzbek standards added with wheels on the 14-inch alloy discs. In the cabin you can also detect innovations: a new upholstery of the seats and a finish under the tree. The last menu item, however, causes contradictory emotions. Wood plastic does not hide its true low price. In addition, Nexia has been equipped with us on the test, it has been equipped with a magnetic, speaker-speaking by four speakers. The radio does not have a removable front panel, and the machine left unattended can attract the attention of dubious persons with the aim of non-procurement.

 
The most popular changes are under the hood of the car, where, instead of the usual eight-point eight-point, a 16-valve motor with two camshafts in the block head is hidden. Excess valves added to the engine seems to be not so many 10 hp and 8 nm, but the consequences of the upgrade turned out to be very noticeable: the motor is cheerfully and happily pulls on low revs. But the closer the red border of the tachometer scale, the smaller the activity shows the engine, turning the forces of horses in an empty sound that does not correspond to the dumping acceleration template.
 
It has its own charm in a box with stretched gears: in the conditions of the city, it is possible to easily manage only the second and third working ranges of each transmission extremely wide. This feature of the transmission of Nexia in combination with a very elastic engine looks even winning, arranging everything in its place. Here it is, the embodiment of the dream of an inexpensive solid sedan!
 
Otherwise, this is all the same well-friendly Nexia with its soft suspension, a non-informative steering mechanism and good brakes. Although it is worth a recognition that the larger wheels have added a sharp machine: the car reacts more reacts to the steering wheel, and not at all to the smoothness of the stroke.
 
If you compare the simplest Nexia worth $ 7,300 and not burdened with optional excesses (like air conditioning and cast drives) Nexia DOHC for $ 8950, then the price difference will seem very significant. However, it is much more interesting to compare the fully equipped machine with a new engine with an 8-valve Nexia in the top-optation of GLE, which costs $ 9100. And then it will turn out that for a good increment to power, 14-inch alloy discs, painted in the body color of bumpers, fog lights, trim under the tree and the external decor of the surcharge will be only $ 700. And this is a very tempting offer.

  
The car is provided by the Moscow Office of Uzdaewoo Auto Co.
At the time of the test, the car is insured by Nasta-Center LLC.
 
Text: Kirill Brevdo
Photo: Roman Stunnin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Source: Magazine "Wheels" [№66 / 2003]