Fiat Bravo test drive since 2007 hatchback

TOM AND JERRY

The Russian fleet of foreign cars was replenished at once with two bright and ambitious C-class representatives. At the end of February, sales of the Peugeot 308 hatchback started, which had already been given a lot of prestigious awards. On April, Fiat dealers began to receive a brand new Bravo car without loud titles, but with a very expressive appearance. Both machines are perfectly equipped, have a comparable price, the same technical data and, it seems, are even aimed at the same audience. So the fight for the tidbit promises to be hot.
Take our feet. The image of the economy class car manufacturer is no longer relevant for European car companies. This niche was crushed under themselves Korean car autocrats. On the horizon, colorful noisy hordes of Chinese cars are already visible. So in a couple of years here it will not be competition, but Armageddon. Fiat Bravo is an attempt to get away from the eastern blow. This typical C-class hatch was created under the epoch-making slogan of Bravo is designed to become a missionary of the Italian automobile style. No more, but no less.
Well, the novelty really looks like a stylish little thing. Bravo looks very automobile, a wedge -shaped silhouette with a long hood relatives with a prestigious compartment, and a high -rising window line only enhances this effect. You will not find a single detail in the design of Bravo, which would give out the utilitarianism. Nose, air intake, headlights like a real sports car. The back of the licked and carries stop signals made in the traditions of frivolous walking cars, and in the lower part there is even a kind of sports aerodynamic diffuser. Yes, Italian designers are able to achieve the desired effect. In the guise of Bravo there is nothing shocking, but the image turned out to be a whole and unambiguous this bright, beautiful and must be a very powerful car.
How powerful? Under the hood of Bravo stands a gasoline 1.4-liter motor ... Calm, do not foo. This is a turbo engine, and the last generation T-jet. It can develop a power of 120 or 150 horses (depending on the version of the engine control program) and has a moment of 230 nm! Not every two -liter atmosphere is endowed with comparable power qualities.
Bravo will go to the Russian market in three trim levels. The EMOTION option provides for seven eirbegs, ABS, ESP stabilization and ASR anti -wings system, rain sensor, fog, adaptive light, two -zone climate, a powerful Blue & Me Musical System, Sabwufer and USB entrance. Sport with 17-inch discs, a sports suspension, a body kit and a salon looks even more interesting. For a surcharge, instead of 6-speed mechanics, you can order a robotic box. Little glamor? Pay for a leather salon and a glass roof-loud SkyDome and ... get ready for annoying issues: is that really fiat? Interestingly, you can write a phrase in the voice control system so that the machine answers itself, and even with a pleasant Italian accent?

  Varvara Nekrasova, Magazine Woman Driving
When you saw Bravo for the first time, did you learn in the Fiat car?
Not right away. It seemed a completely new car and very stylish.
Is this a female or men's car?
I am not a supporter of such a division. Everyone answers this question for himself. The choice of the car is a very personal process, every detail and even tactile sensations are important. Women and men with a developed sense of style may like it.
Are you satisfied with comfort?
It depends on what to take by the reference point. If you operate with the category enough, then, perhaps, yes. But not excessively.
And the decoration of the salon?
I was slightly alerted by the details that create not very comfortable variegation. But the salon itself is made well: pleasant plastic, pleasant shapes.
Will Fiat be able to overcome the cliches of the manufacturer of budget cars?
I would like to hope. Superfalls are always interesting to solve. Bravo, undoubtedly, turned out to be interesting and stylish. In this car you do not look at a poor Cinderella.
Cat in fashionable boots. The PSA group also sets itself high goals. If you translate official phrases from press releases into an understandable language, the company is also concerned about the correction of the image. And, judging by the number of awards that the first -generation firstborn has already received, Peugeot on the right track.
Three hundred eighth, if you cast a superficial look, most likely, it will seem to you just another car with a lion on the hood. But if you look at, you notice a lot of new and interesting stylistic details. Cleem hood Danes Retro. The silhouette of the stern with a trunk extended to the classics appeals to the classics. Designers are hinting: and you have not forgotten that Peugeot has been making cars since 1898? At the same moment, a sporting theme is traced: an extended track, a very long aerodynamic front overhang, mirrors installed in a rally manner pressed to the body, closer to the driver.
But the most interesting in the new lion is hidden under the hood. All magazines have already written about the super-economy diesel-record holder of HDI. 1.6 gasoline, which was at our disposal, also not bald sewing, he received a prize engine of the year. PSA developed this engine with combined boost and direct injection together with BMW Group. On three hundred eights with a manual gearbox, a 150-horsepower version is placed on cars with a four-speed automatic 140-horsepower. There is also an economical modification of 120 hp.
The equipment of the French novelty is impressive. In the test car there was a leather salon, an electric seat, and a superaudiosystem with navigation, a large retractable display and a mobile phone, and a huge glass roof. Generously! Even curiosity was discouraged: does the PEUGEOT 308 mark the Guinness Book of Records in terms of price/equipment?
He opened the configurator. The base model 1.6 with mechanics is offered for 628 thousand rubles a little cheaper than Fiat Bravo (670 thousand). True, such a three hundred eighth against the background of the Italian looks unfinished. If you supplement it with the same features that are provided for by the Emotion standard, the French car eliminates the price gap. And if you order all the listed luxury things, the price of Peugeot 308 goes off scale for 900 thousand rubles. There is something to think about a much more powerful Golf GTI or the first BMW series, one of the most expensive cars in C-class, you can purchase for less money.
On the other hand, Bravo, with the approach of a complete minced meat, becomes much less attractive to the wallet. So in the first half, the match between Italy and France is still ending with a draw. Meanwhile, Germany confidently goes to the final ...
  
Tickling and scratches. On the Peugeot 308, you begin to look with different eyes when you sit behind the wheel. First you come to your senses. How gracefully and beautifully every detail of the cabin is made! And what a visibility! Even the triangular elements behind the front racks are no longer blind dead zones.
You start the motor, click on the accelerator and get a new portion of positive emotions. The motor with an automatic transmission accelerates the car unusually quickly. Imagine how PEUGEOT 308 with mechanics can fly.

  Marina Svyvina, Grazia magazine
Small Peugeot are considered female machines. 308 also corresponds to this image?
It is quite, although it, unlike three hundred six, is much more family. A spacious interior, a large trunk, a high level of safety is what men will like. And the girls will also appreciate a stylish design, a rich color scheme, the interior decoration, a panoramic roof.
The 150-horsepower version did not seem too male to you?
Not at all! I have many friends who have chosen the frisky cars. It seems to you that girls are suitable for cars with a female motor. And you sit in it, turn on the air conditioner, but she ... does not go. A strong car gives a sense of confidence.
What audience 308 can conquer?
The girl, young, successful, makes money herself, plays sports, has different hobbies, thinks about the future about family and children.
Would you buy such a car for myself?
Yes. She struck me with a combination of characteristics and design.
The machine has a sports hard suspension. On smooth asphalt, it steer like cards, wide tires on 17-inch discs hold a lion exclusively. The steering wheel has an increased reactive force, but this is a pleasant effort. However, the level of comfort of the French car is low. The suspension is unpleasantly trickers from numerous lackets and prophales on the road. Tram trains shake to the bones. And if you take the left row of a suburban highway, where a clear track is trampled, then faster than 150 km/h move just terribly the steering wheel in the hands, the car strives to jump from a bad road.
Bravo is less impressive by the interior decoration (black fabric and artificial suede do not look as rich as light skin in 308), but more pleasant in motion. The steering has two settings of a very light city regime and normal. The suspension is compromised between sports and comfort, but nothing rattles in it, even when you pass railway crossings on the move. And most of all I remembered the motor. At revolutions of less than 2.5 thousand, he depicts a wimp, exhausted by diets and does not pull, and does not eat gasoline. But it is worth spinning it and Bravo beasts. No one will believe that here the motor has only one and four. It feels like a liter at least more.
More gas, even faster ... I want to be the first at the box office.
Black fabric, black suede, dark gray corrugated plastic and glossy coffee metallic color scheme, in which the Bravo salon is performed, gloomy, but when the shield with white scales is illuminated by amber lighting, it becomes cozy. The interior of the new items is partially unified with Grand Punto, but it is so well disguised that no one will guess even with a direct comparison. They say that the Sport finish looks very good, and I will willingly believe in it. They are able. They also managed to make the second row of seats spacious. My son, my main indicator of smells, has never called the car a stink, which means that really high -quality polymers and plastics were selected in Fiat, from which it does not rush phenol and other organics. The wife complained to very hard seats, but she did not know that Bravo's seats were made of special foam, which gradually accepts your figure. This is not an advertising trick it works. I want to poke a finger in the steering wheel, sheathed with skin and say: this is how everyone should make this detail. Ergonomics is impeccable, if you focus on the middle driver, but I would prefer to slightly tighten the steering wheel, and the pedal, and the course of the gearbox. Then the car seems more powerful and solid.
In the Peugeot 308, in the first seconds, you can’t take your eyes off the dashboard: thin chrome rings, soft lunar backlight and elegant arrows form a very beautiful composition. Then you look to the right, to the central console, and you see the luxurious panel of the RT4 audio system with a built -in mobile phone, which, thanks to acoustics, sings very cleanly. A seven -inch color display with a beautiful and understandable graphic interface is put forward from the upper part of the dashboard. Lux! The fourth detail is called rolls (colleagues correct the beam). The overlays made of elastic gray plastic along the windows have double bevels both to the cabin and to the glass. It seems to be a trifle, but it improves the lateral visibility to squeeze in tight courtyards, tracking dangerous approximation, is much easier. Why did the automakers not think of this before? There are no metal inserts to the claims just like metal, the skin on the seats is by no means cheap. The central duct is generally a surprise. Turn the handle of the salon is filled with fragrances from a flavored insert. No, only the French could come up with this ...
 
Fiat Bravo 1.4 t-jet
Gasoline engine, 4 in a row
Working volume (cubic cub) 1368
Power (L.S. at about/min) 150 at 5000
Moment (nm at rpm) 230 at 3000
Front drive
The gearbox is mechanical, 6-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 4336/1792/1498
Equipped mass (kg) 1275
Maximum speed (km/h) 212
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.2
Fuel consumption, funny. (l/100 km) 7.1
The price in Moscow from 670,000 rubles.

Peugeot 308 1.6
Gasoline engine, 4 in a row
Working volume (cubic cub) 1598
Power (L.S. at rpm) 150 at 5800
Moment (nm at rpm) 240 at 1400
Front drive
The gearbox is mechanical, 5-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 4276/1815/1498
Equipped mass (kg) 1315
Maximum speed (km/h) 213
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 8.8
Fuel consumption, funny. (l/100 km) 7.1
The price in Moscow from 628,000 rubles.
 

Source: "Autopilot"