Test drive fiat albea (siena) since 2005 sedan

Colonialists

Would you like a foreign car?
Sooner or later, the next work of the domestic auto industry dies in the middle of the highway, and at that moment, in addition to non -normative vocabulary, a simple thought arises in my head: a normal machine is needed. And normal means foreign production, inexpensive and, most importantly, new!

What is there
Chevrolet Lanos
Price from $ 9235
Max. Power 86 hp at 5800 vol./min
Max. torque 130 nm at 3400 rpm/min
Max. Speed \u200b\u200b172 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 12.5 s
Fiat albea
Price from 315,000 rubles.
Max. Power 77 hp at 6000 vol./min
Max. torque 115 nm at 3000 rpm/min
Max. speed 162 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 13.5 s
Peugeot 206 Sedan
Price from 329,000 rubles.
Max. Power 110l.s. at 5800 vol./min
Max. torque 147 nm at 4000 rpm/min
Max. speed 190 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 13.7 s
Iran KHODRO SAMAND
Price from 324,000 rubles.
Max. Power 100 hp at 6000 vol./min
Max. torque 153 Nm at 3000 rpm/min
Max. speed 185 km/h
Acceleration 0100 km/h 11.9 s
SUMMARY
The main advantage of these machines is low price, and those who seriously consider such a car as the purchase, first of all, pay attention not to the results of tests, but to the price tag, but ...
 
The test turned out to be ambiguous. For example, the Chevrolet Lanos simply got into the wrong company, here he easily hits everyone in price, but loses most of the other parameters, but if he had autovaz products in his opponents, he easily defeated all indicators cheaper and more reliable. Samand is higher, but at prices we compare with Albea. PEUGEOT we got with the 1.6 engine and an automaton, which raised the price to sky-high heights, and if it was with a manual KP and a 1.4-liter engine, the alignment of forces could be completely different, because neither excellent manageability, nor the enlarged trunk would have disappeared anywhere . In the meantime, in the aggregate of assessments in the quality of quality-in-price, the price wins Fiat with what we congratulate him.
 
The colonialists in world history have always been considered in two ways: on the one hand, they carried their culture and technology into wild lands, and on the other, they oppressed the natives. Budget sedans of this test came to our market with the same goals. These machines offer a completely different production culture and a completely new look at cheap cars. It should already be borne in mind that the buyer of such models is interested in the availability of service and is not going to serve them in his own garage on the knee. He simply does not have time for this, he no longer copies on the car, and does not tremble above it, but lives normally, actively using credit programs provided by guarantees and insurance. And under such conditions, he has no reason to carry blood -earned rubles to the figures of Ovatropidram, especially since these rubles are more and more required from him every day. The sensational recent projects of our most massive car producer AvtoVAZ Kalina and Priora cannot provide such an level of engineering, and they have eternal problems with quality. It is hard to imagine what the VAZ marketers think about, drawing priors on the price tag: from $ 10500. Who will pay such money for an empty basin, when you can take Lanos in the most expensive configuration with air conditioning and coloring metallic for them? And this is not the only offer of this kind in our market, the rest simply remained beyond the boundaries of our test. So that the former Soviet car industry will die out under the onslaught of colonialists or will remain in reservations among the most backward layers of the population, as all enslaved natives in alcoholism and acceleration survive.
 
And on its territory there will be assembly enterprises of world manufacturers and will spill and cultivate our market, rolling out their budget cars. The most intriguing thing is that this is also an intermediate solution and, if the motorization retains at the same level for at least five years, then soon interest in budget machines will fade away by itself. We, just like around the world, will be interested not at the price, but controllability, passive safety and design.
A fracture in consciousness occurred in the province of people began to buy new foreign cars.
HOW DO THEY LOOK
Nikita Rozanov
Chevrolet Lanos
The first show 1997
ITALDESIGN design
(Daewoo Lanos 1996)
Fiat albea
The first show 2003
Design Centro Stile Fiat.
Peugeot 206 Sedan
The first show 2005
Design Peugeot.
Iran KHODRO SAMAND
The first show 2004
VW Beatle, Mini, Fiat Uon ... Previously, budget cars were also masterpieces of functional design.
 
OUTSIDE
The budget word itself does not carry anything offensive. On the contrary, in relation to the car, in it a priori, confirmation of the rationality of the purchase and sound approach of the car owner to his own budget and the place occupied by individual transport in the capital of his average family should sound in it. In this regard, the style of a car of this consumer sector should illustrate the concept of design in its most classical sense. It was. Remember the story: Citroen 2CV, VW Beatle or Fiat Uno. Today, human mentality is different and fiat albea, a direct descendant of UNO, rounded, slanting the eye and moderately integrated in details. Harmonious and, again in moderation, elegant and dynamic. There is no brightness, but here it is inappropriate (by definition). Its absolute ideological double and veteran of the Lanos budget. Over the long years of its existence, the style has changed its surname and now the gilded Cross Chevrolet completely determines the image of this model. The increased trunk of Peugeot 206 did not disfigure him and even, on the contrary, changed the side proportions for the better. Not ideal, but there was no trace of the kurguziness of the 5-door hatchback. The most incompetent and unlikely view of the Iranian model Samand. From the face, the advanced age is emphasized by the Passat’s gaze and his own, but the inverted cladding of the radiator, on which some kind of home-made symbol (owner of an amateur of equestrian sport?), Forced to instead of the lost Emblem VW ... his side architecture and proportions of the squeeze a tear of a tear Memories of Peugeot 406 fanatics, but no more. Otherwise, one sensations of artisanal and raw work of the designer of self -taught designer. Against this background, you can close your eyes to the age of Lanos design and warm your pride that 11 years ago, perhaps this line came out from under the pencil of Jujaro itself, and the rear lights of Peugeot are so great reminiscent of the flagship sedan 607.
INSIDE
I do not remember such unity of the parameter outside/inside the entire history of our comparative tests. Of course, this is not by chance, because the development of the style determined the strict and narrow budget frames. This is good for functional design, but does not get along well with the artistic beginning and style. From this, the minimalism of the Fiat panel looks so clean and even stylish and is associated with the clock -like kich panel of the Iranian car devices. The east is thin and from that I do not understand the desire of an unnamed designer to use the American stamp of auto architecture of the 80s. In the panel of devices of a car of the 21st century. Flat boobs, absurdly looking 4-spacecraft, flat door ...
SUMMARY
Living on an average budget salary is not easy. But the optimistic style of Fiat and the cheerfulness of Peugeot will surely help.
 
1 PLACE
Fiat albea
+ The painful engine is good soundproofing and overview of a large trunk.
- Not the best handling.
 
2ND PLACE
Peugeot 206 Sedan
+ Good controllability decent design is a good dynamics.
- High price tight rear seats.
 
3RD PLACE
Iran KHODRO SAMAND
+ The car should have a lot of stable behavior on direct climate control.
- heavy steering wheel Lack of airbags in version 1.8 of miscalculations in ergonomics.
 
4th place
Chevrolet Lanos
+ Low price of a traction engine large road clearance.
- The unimportant handling of miscalculations in ergonomics is a modest trunk.
Text Max Sergeevfoto Leonid Deduch
 

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