Test Drive Daewoo Nexia (Kletn) 1995 - NV Sedan

Years added forces

Daewoo Nexia now with a 16-valve engine
In the past life - Opel-Cadet of the 1984 sample. Under the brand name, Dae was produced in Korea. I wore the names of the Reiser and Siele, under which to this day it is found in many directories. Since 1996, a car is produced in Uzbekistan on the Uzzvtoavto. In Korea, the release of cars is stopped. Dealers offer nexia in GL and GLE equipment at a price of $ 7,300 and 8,300, respectively. From February of this year, the GLE option can be bought with a 16-valve 1.5 liter engine, 63 kW / 85 liters. With. At a price of $ 8950.

Berry again
Whatever the skeptics about the outdated design, Nexia is popular. In the past, 2002 sold more than 7,700 new cars. And although modern Europeans slightly laid the position of the almost folk vehicles, the UzDEU is not going to leave them without a fight.
Nexia is almost the cheapest parts of spare parts, inexpensive service. And as an alternative to the top ten she is well collected and rides good. From this year, the Uzbek machines provide a guarantee for five years or 100 thousand km of mileage. But if the latter is more likely to edify AvtoVAZ, then the new 16-valve is accurately intended to compete with other cars imported into Russia.
For a more powerful motor gain in price moderate. If a well-known eight-boiled nonxine with a full filling (air conditioning, a hydraulic tape, a radio and an electropacket) costs $ 9000 *, then the 16-valve even with cast wheels fit into the magic range to ten (more precisely - $ 9800). It is without cast wheels, but with air conditioning will cost $ 9550.
There is, by the way, and other differences in the indignant Nexia, but they are completely insignificant: plastic overlays under the tree around the inner handles in front, slightly more moldings, chrome grille and a pair of DOHC inscriptions.
Double Ozer Had Cam
In Russian - two camshafts in the head. Together with other technical solutions, they have increased the engine power for ten horses (from 75 to 85 liters. And, according to the manufacturer, the fuel consumption was noticeably reduced. And whether the car has become faster to accelerate?
On the plate next to the car exhibited for sale, read: overclocking to hundreds in 11 seconds, the maximum speed is 185 km / h. The instruction attached to the car is silent about the dynamics, but promises the maximum speed of only 175 km / h.
We will open international auto-channel to which each manufacturer submits official data. Here is the maximum speed of 170 km / h and overclocking to hundreds for 12.2 s. In general, it is clear that the car goes faster and accelerates itching, but to check how much, it will have to be closer to the summer. And now I will hurt to take place behind the wheel and confess your own feelings. In the end, most drivers are important not so much figures as a sense of satisfaction.
Motor deposits at idle turnover, we leave for Moscow streets. While we are moving in a dense stream, the increased abilities are invisible, but I would love to feel that the car with a 16-valve rides - the motor did not make a steeply in favor of greater power. True, looking after, we notice that at the same speed, the tachometer of more powerful nexia shows more than the editorial eight-point. Therefore, there was a small seating of the characteristics of the engine on the bottoms, but it was compensated by a shorter main pair (4,176 against 3.944). It is not quite familiar, but in this case absolutely reasonable.
We break out of the metropolis on the operational space. Transmissions - from third to fifth, turnover - from the minimum to wisely high. On the bottoms of the differences from the eight-point machine there are no or they are very small. But in the area of \u200b\u200b2500-3500 revolutions, the new motor begins to leave the predecessor. True, the difference is not very big - we will not forget that he is still one and a half-liter.
In short, Nexia-Minor (this name occasionally appears in official materials), she is the same DOHC Nexia, much more pleasant to the usual car. But the transition to the next level is not worth talking. Do you pay for the 16-valve motor another $ 550-650? If you buy for the latter - perhaps, no. But if there is a small reserve of funds - solve. In the end, the specified amount is the same as the well-established alarm plus anticorrosive.

* Price $ 9000 - without a catalytic neutralizer; For those who respect themselves and others, the car will cost $ 100 more expensive.

New heart of Nexia.
The air intake is high.

Resonant volume on the inlet and customized nozzles.
 
 


Text / Alexander Budkin, Anatoly Karpenkov
Photo / George Sadkov

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"