Test Drive Daewoo Nexia (Kletn) 1995 - NV Sedan

"Nexia"

Model - Daewoo Nexia 1.5 Gle; Manufacturer - UzDeauto; Year of release - 1996, July; in operation - from April 1997; Mileage at the time of the report - 12,600 km; Previous publications - SE, 1997, No. 8.

To confess, I sometimes envy colleagues participating in the editorial tests: Niva, Samara or Oka - this is where real positive experiences, polygons for inquisitive minds! The day does not pass, so that it does not have to solve the next caverver of electrical equipment, the carburetor ... Unfortunate bolt of fastening the wheels and one turnover to the whole world of half a day. The first months of the human life, who was entrusted with a new foreign car, from this point of view was gone in gift. What you take from Nexia, albeit Uzbek build (or rather, Uzbek production; about where and how they make the car, we have written more than once). There is no carburetor: it means there is nothing to cling, regulate - there is also nothing. Electricity? There was one defect (they also wrote about him) - in managing power windows. As a result, the driver no longer commands the windows of the right side: they are now raised and lowered the passengers themselves on the right side. But more of curiosity: in the car with air conditioning, glass is usually closed.
It seems that I immediately retreated from the Zarulevsky canon of such reports: the engine ... transmission ... etc. Okay - insert the key to the castle. By the way, it is symmetrical, which is very convenient, with a large plastic top - and, of course, one for all castles of the car. Letter the engine ... With unaccustomed a strange, as if not from the motor, going to the sound at idle - it looks like an electrical sewing machine. Kramols did not hear in it - and with the growth of revolutions, the sound becomes clean and the fusion, while (perhaps, to the mark of 4000 rpm) unodie. I do not want to repeat, but after all, someone could not read the reports of colleagues about injection Samara and Muscovite. So: on this car, where the engine is equipped with a distributed gasoline injection, I can say, I forgot three words on P: SUPPLE, WARE, WILL. On this letter, there is only a start. However, winter barely began: something will be with minus twenty?
The inquisitive reader knows: Nexia is not the last word of technology, but only skillfully lengthened Opel Cadet 1984. There are plenty of water - but I can't see stand up to the design of the instruments, easy to use levers and buttons, and the backlight of the devices and especially the buttons are great. Not too convenient (low) there is a steering wheel; It is even more annoying that there is no hub in his hub (and they spoke - a foreign car!). Alas - in the center of the Baranki sticks out the signal button, alive reminding the cadets of my post-war childhood ...
Transmissions switches clearly; Very convenient locking reverse with spring-loaded ring. True, I had to cut part of the Zhigulsky rubber rug, abandoned by me on the floor on top of the cutting coating: a rather thick rubber interfered with completely turn off the clutch; Because of this, sometimes the reverse reverse with the crash, and the second resistance was tangible. Small things, as you know, does not happen!
If Russian drivers have long used to the brake amplifier, the steering wheel amplifier on a passenger car is still able to squeeze a tear of lunizing at the Zhigulist with experience. And it is not necessary to arrogantly ask: why to strengthen in this nonsense - not a truck, like!. Not a truck, but not a simulator for the muscles of the intellectual. In addition, the ladies behind the wheel are no longer uncommon: order them first send them to physical training? No, the hydraulicel is useful, although the weight of the machine adds, and the power selects; Therefore, gasoline eats. But - he does not feel sorry, assistant!
No less warm words deserves, undoubtedly, air conditioning (although the cost of power and fuel on the compressor drive is even greater). But the delightful feeling of coolness on a hot day, the absence of drafts, dust and noise penetrating outside, are expensive! It is known by the way that the air conditioner together with the amplifier increases the fuel consumption by about 8%.
From the trifles of life, a good word is a comfortable, spacious pockets on the upholstered doors, remote control of the gas tank and trunk hatch. By the way, the castle of the hatch is also capable of trying to talk - a couple of times had to act a screwdriver, risking scratch paint. Not very comfortable buttons for blocking door locks, tight and flat: pull them out - sometimes there is a terrain.
Sometimes (apparently, under the mood) irritates the climbing sound, published by the antenna electric drive gear: it is clearly heard, if you turn on or turn off the radio at idle motor revolutions. There are sounds more pleasant, moreover, prompting: a melodic bell will remind several times to the driver several times that he, turning on the ignition, did not fastened the seat belt (there is a signal and a red light bulb about this. The bell will ring more alarming and without a silent, if, turning off the ignition, you will leave the light on, at least the parking.
The great advantage of Nexia is a huge (530 liter) trunk. It is opened as a key and a button on the instrument panel and completely covered with a dark gray carpet, under which in the niche - a full-sized reserve and tool. According to foreign cars, a set of chic: a jack, a spray, a screwdriver, passage and the whole three wheelboards.
Another, no less important dignity is that the tool has never been used in direct appointment - except for economic affairs. I know, the explanation is ready: moderate operation mode, fertile summer time. Of course, it did not transport the wholesale batch of goods, did not go through the villagers, did not fly through Coldinam. But it roasted in urban (and now in the near Moscow) traffic jams, where the car is decent with the appearance, something and the case rolled back to the sidelines: overheating! Nexia - never even the fan turned on relatively rarely.
At the end of the summer managed to fly from Moscow to Kiev. On the segment of the path of 430 km merged consumption: at an average speed of 68.8 km / h - 6.25 l / 100 km. But in the city with his perpetual traffic jams on weekdays, with the permanent air conditioner, there were more than 10 liters per hundred. However, it's time, probably, it's time to consider consumption not in running, but by time ... poured, as prescribed, the 92nd - and I do not remember that at least once heard detonation.
In general, I loved Nexia for the feeling of a solid car: in it, by and large, only the engine is heard and the noise of the wheels. And how many diverse strength and shades of sounds we are accustomed to catching the trained ear in the Zhiguli, Samara, Muscovites ... I'm afraid, however, the reproaches that are too generous to praise and positive evaluations. It's time to make an indifferent mine and conclude in words ... a craft cook: a good product is difficult to ruin!. In other words, the cadets, so popular in the 80s, surrendered, stood and transformation into the Korean Raiser, and further transformation - now in Uzbek Nexia. How successful - will show the year that began.
Vladimir Arkusha

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"