Test Drive Daewoo Tico 1991 - 2001 Hatchback

A foreign car from Uzbekistan

The smallest daewoo intrigued me for a long time. We cost squeezed in a traffic jam, you throw a cola from the bank. You hear behind the soft rockness. The three-cylinder engine sounds especially - it always Troit. You can not turn around - this Tico paves the slalom highway in the frozen stream. So he was already shattered between you and the Kremlin vodka. The taxi driver in confusion listens to his motor. Now it is worth setting a cola and turn the neck. Summer, you know, girls are mini. And what's the wheel of the Tico Girl is probably. For some time you can admire her knees. Transparent machine - everything can be seen.
He loved - Pope Cola. Let the standing ahead now admire. Where her traits carry, there is KAMAZ! Five minutes later you and the following place before the place where the last time I saw Tico. And the girls and the trail has bothered. Yes, in such a car it is difficult for her to be late for a date ...
Tico leads its pedigree from the Japanese model Suzuki Alto 1989. After a couple of years, the production of microloes passed to Korea (in those years, Daewoo and Suzuki were under the common roof of the GM concern). There the model was unchanged on the conveyor until the end of 1996. For the third year, Tico has been collected in Uzdaewoo joint venture in Uzbekistan. Who would have thought that Uzbeks would learn to make decent cars before ...
Machine and in fact normal. Simple, compact and economical.
And even cheap. Sometime, CitroOn 2CV was thought - one of the culmination models of the century. De SCO survived his time only thanks to his practicality.
The construction of Daewoo Tico in one row with CitroOn 2CV is by no means accidentally, if we consider them only as a means of movement, but all other functions are like options. The main thing - the car should go and carry passengers.
How to carry, at what speed and comfort is another question. And completely different money. We will try to deal with all this, killing Daewoo Tico in three modes: around the city, on the high-speed highway and on the winding race track.
An ordinary Tico was taken to the test with a 5-speed manual box, velor interior and air conditioning on board. The Uzbek factory list of additional equipment ends. There is another option with a dermal interior, without air conditioning and without a 5-speed box. Also for Tico, you can choose the low-profile tires of the 70th series instead of full-lifted 135r12. Hint of dynamic driving?
There is nothing unusual and supernatural in Tico and can not be. Compact three-cylinder 40-strong motor pulls behind a rather roomy interior for four and a half adults and a small trunk. To get inside, you do not need to be written, remembering school acrobatic etudes.
Passed for the threshold - and you are in the car. The salon is filled with no complaints of chic, but very high quality. Flat doors and vertical landing chairs with the same flat pillows. This allows you to increase residential volume. If you say that inside the Tico is more than outside, it will look like flattery. In any case, for the first time, so responded about the hits of Austin Mini. But, it is necessary to think, for 30 years, separating these two cars, the science of playing the extra space stepped far ahead.
Developers - the Japanese - skillfully ordered the Mini formula.
And Tico passengers are not concerned about the issue where to push their legs, elbows and heads.
The driver's workplace is extremely functional. Dana: The steering wheel is a bit harsh, but convenient in size; lever boxes with fast progress; Light, informative pedals and a large circle of speedometer. You can go.
Motor rich, like an empty stomach. See, does not feed. Fuel consumption rate and really funny - 4 liters per hundred in the city.
Town. As everywhere, two problems are fools and roads. It is believed that the second problem comes from the first. Fools all strive to trim or wipe the car into a curb stone. Fight means to escape either dodge. The word to escape is more suitable for Tico than to leave - the sensation from driving is as if he got on the wheels. Discomfort it does not cause. It is possible to run away in the second and third gears. The motor is very easily spinning and provides good sprint acceleration. There is enough for a rig. Next, the engine rests on the speed limit. There is no tachometer, so it remains to hope for your rumor - if the bumps in the ears, it means that it's time to go to the highest gear. But, as a rule, people at least with two-year experience driving a sense of transmission goes into another place ...
The machine is not only frisky, but also very sophisticated. The TiCo taxi reminds the kindergarten game in the chauffeur when the bagel is giving a bagel and he goes there, where he wants. Effort on the steering wheel is comparable to wearing cosmetics. At the same time, the car reacts very sensitively to all steering actions. The visibility in all directions and on the mirrors does not cause comments. The car is really transparent as aquarium.
Long-terrestrial suspension and high full-belly rubber provide an acceptable smoothness of the movement. But still, from the suspension and power frame of the body, you should not expect the strength of the car victory.
Daewoo Tico is full as a means of crossing a megapolis. At the same time, the maximum effect can be achieved in the peak hours when the Tico can be chunned only on two wheels or two legs.
On the highway, the car runs 130 km / h. This is maximum. Faster it is possible only under the hill or with a passing hurricane wind. Naturally, such a light machine is subject to the influence of external factors, such as: road irregularities and side wind. And the body shape is far from aerodynamic perfection.
The comfortable high-speed threshold for Daewoo Tico is at a mark of 100-110 km / h.
Intensive braking until a complete stop occurs with a smoothly increasing progression. It is important not to overdo it with effort on the pedal.
The ability to block the wheels is constantly and depends more from the human factor than from the TICO factor. The first time sharp braking passed on the verge of blocking. But since the informativeness of the pedal is very high (there is no amplifier), learn how to brake properly on this light machine without ABS can be very fast. If you do not put much on the brakes, then the slowdown of the car will be completely controlled.
And finally - about sports.
I got to the racing route, where we usually chase more serious cars. That Tico is far from sports and the more not a racing car - we understood perfectly. Her element is a street plug, and not the devices.
Nevertheless, they started bought. If the navigator led the transcript of what is happening, she would look like this: acceleration until it stopped - the gas is not yet discharged, drumming into the floor - the drift - the roll of the car - the steering wheel resists - even gliding in three wheels, you put the smell of rubber - overclocking and braking again . And so dozen times on the circle. And so few circles. Maybe not particularly clearly, but the fact that such a ripped rhythm of movement is extreme for many cars, is a fact.
Korean-Uzbek Tico withstood such a load. Therefore, we do not insist that you read the next paragraph: it has nothing to do with the daily use of Tico. Few people guess to acquire adrenaline microllery for the sake.
Passing at the speed turn, called the Teschin language, pay attention not to a sharp decrease in the rotation of the car. The steering wheel really ceases to work and for a long time refuses to pull the tanking machine from the drift. The fact is that the steep turns of Tico runs on the sidewalls of the tire. Rubber folds. There is no speech in this situation in this situation.
Want a hohma tell? Imagine how you pour into the Daewoo Tico in the left turn. As with any car, Tico has right-wing rolls in such cases. And very not weak. Seat without side support. It remains hard to keep the steering wheel. And here ... What would you think? Turn on the wipers! The brushes went left, the center of gravity moves there. The machine stabilizes! We must tell about this racers from the Miller pilot.
Ivan V. Paderin
 
 

A source: Magazine Motor