Test drive Fiat Doblo 2005 - 2010 Minivan
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Italy is not only magical Rome, incredible Venice and revived Pompeii. These are also poor Naples with Genoa and Industrial Turin. The same picture with the Italian auto industry: these are not only bohemian Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati. These are also workhorses like our current hero in the highest degree of practical hard workers with not the most sonorous name Doblo. By the way, the difference from Diablo in only two letters
With Doblo, Italians guessed. In the sense, they successfully determined interest in such a machine in Russia, and the price was not lifted. As a result, before the appearance of Albea, dealers mainly sold this compact van.
I try to get a job in a driver's place. Here are those on! The task, it turns out, is not easy. This is because such a luxury as adjusting the seats vertically has only the most refined Doblo. What is surprising: adjustment in height, in fact, is not God the news of what a minced meat for a modern foreign car. By the way, in Albea, this option is proposed only in the maximum configuration. I wonder why the Italians save on this?
Fiat Doblo
Fiat Doblo is not very beautiful, not fast, not the most high -tech, not luxury and not sports. But not expensive, unpretentious, easy to manage, and very roomy. 3,000 liters of useful volume: what other arguments do you need ...
Well, that is. As it happens in machines of this class, the driver’s landing is vertical. I’m sitting straight, hanging over the steering wheel, put on a place above my head at least put on a hat with feathers. The driver does not have to spend energy particularly. The handle of a mechanical checkpoint (an automatic machine is not taken to Russia) is located on the central console, and its moves are small. The same can be said about the pedals: they are short -made, but the clutch must be squeezed to the stop, otherwise you will not switch. Design outside without revelations, it is very good inside. Moreover, for a car, an essential part of the owners of which, in theory, should not attach particular importance to the style and harmony of elements. The quality of the assembly for the hard four: in places, the parts of plastic are poorly fixed (though they did not sound for the entire trip). The edges of the details are sharp not cut, but the impression was a little spoiled. But the top five for the interior was not far off
The rear passengers will be conveniently enough space on the couch for three fuckers of basketball growth. But it does not mean comfortable comfortable: not a single armrest is behind, only the handle of the cape door, only the right passenger can hold on to.
However, workhorses like Doblo Cargo, worth $ 14,000, aesthetic flaws are excusable without them. The widest area of \u200b\u200bglazing of the machine turns Doblo into an aquarium. You see everyone, and everyone sees you, therefore, tinting here is extremely relevant. But the mirrors frankly disappointed. Side tall, but very narrow; In addition, they significantly distort the real picture. And still: you do not see a car located in the neighboring row a little from behind. The gaze thrown into the salon mirror sticks to the joint of the baggage compartment doors.
Since we are talking about the luggage compartment ... It (as well as the freight capabilities of Doblo) deserve a separate description. Due to the height of the ceiling under it, the designers placed the visor in the entire width of the car. There, if desired, you can push the contents of several standard drawers, which is relevant, since the Doblo glove compartment will be accommodated only for the car documents.
But in inexpensive versions above the mess there are free niches; In the richest version, their place is occupied by a pillow of the front passenger. And only two digits: 750 liters of the luggage compartment, 3,000 liters of it, but with the rear seats folded. A car that has a cargo -passenger version that does not differ in size from Doblo Panorama demonstrates its main slaughter trump card.
So, loaded in full. Now, as stated in a famous joke, let's try to take off. There is no need to wait for racing surprises: in Doblo you can not choose not only a transmission, but also the engine. It is only one 1.4-liter 77-horsepower: the same that is installed on Grande Punto.
Prices Fiat prices in rubles. The basic Doblo Panorama in Active configuration is the front electric windows, immobilizer, gur, central lock, ABS, one airbag, audio training and 430,000 rubles. In the next configuration, Active+ for 460,000 rubles, air conditioning and mirrors are added. Finally, in the top version of DyBamic for 485,000 rubles there is heated the driver's seat, armrest, adjusting the seat in height, the Distance Management of the Central Construction and Enterprise, and some external zest, including roof rails.
Cargo versions cost 365,000 rubles. In the maximum configuration, these are 455,000 rubles, and there are two versions raised by about 30 cm raised, which allows you to still increase the size of the luggage compartment to 3,800 liters.
The capabilities of the first transmission end in half a second, the speedometer arrow does not have time to get to twenty. But try to switch to the second ahead of time! It is worth accelerating or not, the car will decide for some time itself. In general, Doblo shows the semblance of renunciation in a very short range of feelings, from 3,000 to 4,000 revolutions. At the same time, there will be no jerks: everything is smooth, measured, as if reluctantly.
It is hardly appropriate to regret it, but it is worth remembering. At least for their own safety during overtaking. And they are not at all contraindicated. Despite the external slowness and the modest motor, the fiat cruising speed is far beyond the speed limits of the traffic rules. It is pleasant to manage them, especially on good roads, but at a speed for 100, a rather strict suspension is shocking at all irregularities. But thanks to this stiffness, a high car is by no means rolling.
In general, he is not bad Fiat Doblo. Its ratio of price-quality and especially the price-capacity, maybe not absolutely the best in the class, but they are enough for the car to become a noticeable player in the compact van market. Pretty capricious, by the way.
The car was provided for the test by the official dealer Fiat, Elva-Motors
Text: Alexander Sigalo
Photo: Roman Ostanin
A source: Wheel magazine [No. 115/2007]
