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Car Review Daihatsu Move Latte

All in female rounded
So, on the stage there was a new car character. The model of Daihatsu Move Latte, so cute, that without a doubt would cause the animation in the teahouse of Mrs. Ami Onuki (tox). Those of women who are already called mothers are more like Mrs. Sizhuk Kudo, which has shifted a lot of fictional characters. And Ms. Amia with children does not go, it is not known how to behave behalf of the family and how it differs from the behavior of a woman's marriage not burdens. Many minivan cars are successful when they are focused on families where children are already nursing. And the new model Move Latte is designed for both Miss and Mrs., she seeks not to make differences between them, but simply infect the joy of the life of all women who have achieved a certain (read - marriage) age.
Absolutely round shape of the eye and the Banana body color of the body appears in front of us this microllery car. The second word used in the name of the machine means Milk (Latte in Italian means milk). Therefore, therefore, too, but the driver of a male floor in such a car even somehow awkwardly. It is also impossible to argue with complete confidence that everyone without exception women will have to do such an exclusively female model. Undoubtedly Other: Any man will surely express the opinion that this is the most like a woman's car!
Indeed, the charm of this car is immediately striking. The first word present in the title (meaning the word MOVE) clearly makes it clear which machine served as a prototype for a new model. Of course, this is Daihatsu Move, who has become a kind of bestseller of Daihatsu. At the same time, Move Latte, in everything, starting from the front headlights, a decorative grid of the radiator, the shape of window openings, doors, door mirrors, and ending with door latches, are striking with their consistent desire for rounding. As a result, a completely different atmosphere is created than when you sit behind the steering wheel of the base car - Move. The same can be said about the inner design of the cabin. Decorative door panels, speedometer pointer, interior lighting lamp, rearview mirror, is there, then the eye is stuck here on rounded parts. Such, I would say, warm design just breathes cleanliness and freshness.
 
He is very nice, but it's not just that!
When a man-designer puts himself the task of doing something exclusively per female, his efforts, no matter how hard he tried, will always be limited to a certain framework. In the past there were a lot of such cars that were intended mainly for women's drivers, and women's hearts, however, remained intact. And, not finding in these hearts a response, these cars went from the market into non-existence. How many such stories are already known. That is why when developing Move Latte, a survey of women was conducted, according to the results of which the decisions were made, as such or another item should look like. Well, for example, fabric for the upholstery of the seats of the cabin. After all, nowhere else in the design of the seats will not meet the material with such an unusual texture. The chairs really look just gorgeous, pink themselves, and the image of the kitten is applied from above. With all the differences in the assessment, it is likely to be positively perceived by everyone, including quite adult women.
Or hereby: around a driver's seat within reach there is a large number of surcharges where small things can be laid. Moreover, under the front passenger seat, a retractable box is provided, where a couple of women's shoes can be stored. Women will definitely make purchases and fold them into the car's salon, and the developers have already taken care of hanging the hooks for which packages with these shopping will be comfortable to cling. On the back of the backs of the front seats there are pockets for napkins, there are pockets for small things. After all, it is easy to imagine that there will also be women on the back chairs of such a car. And these pockets will be like this.
Plus, the world's rear and front of the door opposite from the driver's driver can be widened and kept at an angle of 90 degrees. What is it for? Suppose you need to take a child in a children's chair installed inside the cabin. To do this, the door opens to the maximum corner of the turn so that the stroller with the child can become close to the car. How easy it will be a task, isn't it? Or here is the driver's seat. In order for it to be convenient for both women with a slight increase, it is easily adjustable in height. But that's not all. In the design belt design, a retainer is provided, which allows you to adjust its length individually so that the belt is always on the shoulder. As they say, a trifle, but nice.
 
Noise level is lower, and comfort is higher than in a conventional micro
Sit behind the wheel of Move Latte and tried from the scene, I immediately felt how this car, so to speak, single-channel. As already noted, it is focused exclusively on female drivers, therefore, it is likely that all the mechanisms are adjusted on somehow special. The steering wheel turned out to be unusually easy, which allows you to manage confidently and without any effort. And how the engine works quietly! He can say almost sneaks, even by the standards of a micro-car car. Probably, this is the result of the fact that in the new car used new sound-absorbing materials in an amount exceeding the level of the base model Daihatsu Move.
In the car equipped with a 3-cylinder engine, with an increase in revolutions, a characteristic rokot is always heard, but in this case, due to the use of sound-absorbing materials, you do not pay attention to it. The engine vibration is also skillfully suppressed, and the automatic transition from one transmission to another is very soft. For a trial trip, I chose a car with a simple, without boost, engine. I will not hide, at the start it seemed to me that there was not enough instantaneous power, but as soon as the car was moved from the spot, this feeling of the deficit was lost, and the speed began to grow quite intensively.
What struck me most of all is the level of comfort. The body fluctuations were minimal, on the joints of the road cover the expected sharp shocks were absent, and instead the suspension acted easily and gently. These are these two criteria, namely the engine peakness and the comfort of driving, forcing you to forget that you are driving microllaps, make up very attractive sides of the new car Move Latte.
Let me touch another point, namely the design of the rear seats. As you know, in micro-car cars more acute than in ordinary machines, there is a question about the ratio of quality and price. In particular, even if the front armors are made at a very high quality level, it does not mean at all that exactly the same quality will be provided for the seats of the rear row. And this is understandable: passengers are sitting on these places, it is infrequent, you can restrict ourselves to the cheap seats, say, from polyurethane with low elasticity. This, as you know, is completely happening. What especially pleased me in the cabin of the new car Latte - the rear armchairs are almost not inferior to the front, they are just as firmly fitting the received posture and are very comfortable.
If we talk about a useful volume around the rear seats, then no special complaints of this indicator causes. At least there is an adult passenger, where to place your knees. But, on the other hand, the desire to maximize the distance between the front and rear seats led to a sharp restriction of the space from behind. As a result, the head of the second row of the passenger sitting on the chair is in the very close proximity to the rear window. And if only turn the head and look into it hanging glass over you, it immediately arises the effect of the psychological fear of the rear strike. By the way, the rear seat is installed on sliding sled, which allows you to adjust its position within 250 mm, so that it would seem, this fear can be reduced by shifting the seat forward. But at the time of the landing, the passenger may not pay attention to the fact that the chair will move as much as possible, just sit down and that's it.
It is clear that the new Latte model, like all other cars, has passed a test for a collision in the rear at a speed of 50 km per hour. But one thing, if the car from all over the right angle rushes onto a vertical and flat wall. And another thing, when such an incident happens on the road and when you enter the car in the ass, having complex forms. Therefore, I think there will be no superfluous any measures that would increase the safety of passengers sitting from behind. Even taking into account the fact that, as statistics shows, a catching blow to the catching blow from more than a third of all collisions on the roads. (For example, to conduct a collision test at the same total speed of 50 km / h, but by type the machine in the car, both in front of the front and lateral impact). This, understandable case, concerns not only the model of Move Latte. However, as applied to this machine, I can notice that if you make the necessary changes to the design of the rear seats, make them, say, not so wide and thus increase the level of security sitting from behind, then figuratively speaking, it will be an excess argument for such Mrs., who already have their children.
 
 

A source: Carview.co.jp.