Test Drive Fiat Doblo since 2010 Minivan

Square meters

Participants of this test demonstrate different views on a practical car. How did manufacturers of high body sizes ordered?
Chevrolet Rezzo.
Presented in 2001 under the name of Daewoo Takuma. After the minimum changes, renamed Chevrolet Renceso.
Engines: gasoline 1.6 liters (90 hp) and 2.0 l (107 and 121 hp).
Gearbox: 5-speed manual.
Complete set: two options.
Price: $ 17 19017 990.

Fiat Doblo
The car debuted at home in 2000, in Russia sold in the passenger version of the panorama.
Engine: In Russia, only gasoline 1.4 l (77 hp).
Gearbox: 5-speed manual.
Required: Base, Classic, Comfort.
Price: 430 000485 000 rub.
($ 16,50018,600).

Skoda Roomster.
The model is presented at the Geneva Motor Show in the spring of 2006, in Russia since the fall of 2006.
Engines: gasoline 1.21.6 l (64105 hp), diesel 1.4 and 1.9 liters (69 and 105 hp).
Transmission: 5-speed Mechanical, 6-speed automaton (1.6 liter only).
Required: Base, Style, Sport, Comfort.
Price: $ 15 49024 890.

Pragmatic always want more. They give the car on which the children go to school with comfort, and buy a month to buy a month, and, if necessary, immerse anything much larger portfolio. Manufacturers in response offer practical versatile cars as different, how purpose they are intended for. What to choose: High wagon Skoda Rumster? Small mini-Ven Chevrolet Rezzo? Or freassegas fiat-owl?
Name obliges
Before you, the representative of the Mini Wane detachment and the typical sample of the Korean automotive industry of the end of the 90s of the twentieth century. Let's go further, in the next hall we are waiting for more remarkable exhibits, if there were the World Museum of Automotive Achievements, then the Renceso did not figure it out in the center of the exposition, and the guides were unlikely to find more words for him. The model appeared under the DEU brand. But it was worth it to join the game Chevrolet, the car began to actively offer in Russia under the name of Rezzo. Recently, its large-sized assembly was established in Kaliningrad.
To admit, Mark Chevrolet for me is associated with very other machines: other appearance, other sounds. Grozny Stakkato 8-cylinder Corvette, Sough-Road Taho Tagged with the bus name obliges!
Alas, Reczo is similar to the overall single-fampots, except that plastic, which even popular American models could never boast. But most of all the Salon Rezzo reminded Chevy-Niva. The same amorphous panels, shapeless seats, mediocre fit fit, and what, is there a mini-Wen in the market cheaper? Credited me a colleague. And also, look at the back of the place, the seat is removed completely or in parts. That's right, in this renceso will really give odds to many. But it is worth moving to the driver's seat, you understand: the audience is increasing above average for this model is lost. Script in the back seat will reach hard measures: the front armchairs are shifted close to the steering wheel, so with a height of 181 cm I barely had enough space to get comfortable. Can I get impressions on the go?
Alas! For the first time, the driver of the driver first looks like yesterday's graduate driving school: a look at the gear shift lever, and the squeezing hand stirred in a saucepan. Of course, and to such a box gradually get used to, but no more pleasant ride does not become.
We solve another task: how to accelerate to 100 km / h for the promised 12.2 s? There are suspicions that the value is taken by dealers from the European version, the stated power of which on 17 forces is more. Our renceso left 90 under the hood. Unfortunately, the weather did not allow to confirm the guess after the measurement, but boldly affiring the acceleration of Chevrolet does not shine. He is very unhurried, despite the annoying hum of the motor. The engine could smooth the impression with a straight line (as-in no way 1.6 l), but this did not happen. The peak of torque accounts for 4200 rpm, and then the maximum power is not far from the tachometer 5000 rpm. Further turn the engine is pointless, he does notice, without waiting for the limiter, and, by the way, finally destroys acoustic comfort.
Does not love Rezzo and steep turns. If under the wheels of the asphalt of average quality, the steering wheel beats in the hands, passing the knocks and vibrations from the steering rack. The only thing that the car pleased the smoothness of the stroke. For distant unnecessary trips just right.
A sad picture, I thought, returning the highway to the city near Moscow. Finally, the image of the buyer Rezzo was sketched: uncomplicated, middle-aged and the average wealth. Economic, leisurely, economical. And never even dreamed of Corway or Tahoe
Do you do not seek goodness?
The fate of Fiat in Russia can not be called cloudless. At least until recently, when the company began to recover after a protracted crisis, and in our country it was once again decided to engage in seriously. We have already been sold even in troubled times. But the current car is not quite the one that was offered before. The model is supplied in a more powerful version with a motor 1.4 l with a capacity of 77 hp.
When you look at the hope behind or in three quarters, it is impossible to get rid of cargo associations. By the way, trucks are particularly popular among nearly three dozen modifications. We also have three configuration of the passenger version of the panorama.
I open the door, jumping into the salon: quite a pretty and original front panel, the controls of the unnecessary, but are conveniently located. Well, for shopping? Acceleration is given to good, it is not easier than Rezzo, but it's more pleasant to control the fiat. Not least due to the short-terrestrial lever of the 5-speed box on the casting console.
Before your eyes, a huge, almost vertical windshield, and between him and the ceiling placed a comfortable shelf. You are sitting high, study the mirror ears through the bus ears. But the first claims are precisely for visibility. Access to the trunk opens a double swollen door with bulk sash. In the crude weather, Idobo throws the stern of mud, fighting with which the only janitor is on the greater sash.
According to the declared maximum speed, FIAT is inferior to Chevrolet almost 20 km / h, but the car is quite comfortable and obedient up to the same mark as the RECCO. More than 130 km / h (polygon mode!) Riding unpleasantly. At reasonable speeds, the wind only sometimes swings the carbon black, but it does not knock down from the course. The main thing is not to threaten the waste with the trajectory yourself! The steering wheel is sensitive, and the responses are fast.
So, on the fiat you can go to the long journey? Better by company: A low-loaded machine features mediocre smoothness. Look at the bottom: it is, the rear suspension is spring. For the rapid passage of turns, it seems and count not. But, if you take into account the height of the body, everything is not so bad! Fiat demonstrates a classic front-wheelful character, although flooding under the gas to the outward turning rather early, and the body is pretty gently.
Maverka, we seem to have gathered shopping! Here is a discipline in which there is no need for an equal: a huge luggage compartment with a flat flat floor, low loading height and opening 180 doors. Damnik's dream! The trunk is not difficult to increase, throwing back the rear sofa forward, then up to 3 cubes of cargo climbs into the body.
Access to passenger places open sliding doors. I step over a wide threshold and remember London Cab: in the cylinder it does not happen except for a basketball player. In the width of the seat, there is enough three adults, but the medium freedom limits the central tunnel.
But the feeling that the task is a truck, although very rude, still does not disappear. Sliding vents, massive doors, shaking, especially noticeable precisely from behind the van to wash more expensive, the point in the dispute was put on the sink!
HOUSING PROBLEM
Affordable accommodation young family! This state program is designed to solve almost the most sick Russian question. Even the multi-month queues for very nose machines explain the fact that people are desperate to accumulate to the apartment. For many cars, the second home is. It was this philosophy that the developers of Skoda-Rumster were laid in their brainchild.
I remember in the Czech Republic (SM, 2006, No. 6), we were literally not given a passage on each traffic light. In Russia, the reaction is noticeably cooler able to be, the case in the season?
And I like it here. Landing is easy, driving a convenient driver with an increase even for two meters. And behind the place for the legs is enough. Sorry, the salon is slightly narrow. But, judging by the options for transformation, Rumster was conceived as an apartment for four. Although the rear sofa is divided into three parts: each moves forward-back by 150 mm, and the backs can be tilted by 13.5. The seats are removed from the cabin, and even easier than in the reference. With a complete scenario, the trunk volume reaches an impressive 1780 liter, but the records of Fiat Skoda do not beat. Rumster's corona number removed from the salon the middle section of the sofa, the remaining sidewalls shift now at the rear passengers comfort almost like in a business class! Although broadband citizens are closer to each other than expected.
In the Czech Republic, the suspension seemed to me the collected and quite comfortable. When it made his way through the bitch, the scored Moscow alleys, other impressions arose. Patchwork on the asphalt car meticulously recalculated. While cars export to Russia unchanged; Perhaps later there will be a package for bad roads, and Rumster will become more comfortable.
But to manage it after Rezzo and the good one pleasure. The selectivity of the box is gorgeous, not allowed to miss. The steering wheel is convenient and responsive, the behavior of the car is equally predicted to 100, and 150 km / h. Lightly strains only the long-term clutch pedal and the annoying sound of the 1,4-liter motor at high speed.
Alas, apartments are now road. Even small-sized and on wheels. Test Rumster, stocked with options under the string, pulled on a very solid amount.
So what to choose? The solution depends greatly on the requirements! Someone is especially important to the comfort and quality of finishing, other main than more square (or cube), and someone will be just happy with a separate, albeit a non-zeys for an affordable amount. What is closer to you?
Mikhail Gzzovsky: If comfortable comfort, handling and you agree to pay all the way, look at Rumster. The referee will save the family budget, well, and the Velo will appreciate those for whom the car is not only movement, but also earnings.
Chevrolet Rezzo One of the most inexpensive mini-beans on the market. Payback outdated design and mediocre driving quality.
Total rating of 7.7
+ Big ground clearance, good smoothness and transformation capabilities.
- Low selectivity of the box, small driver adjustment in length, unimportant visibility, modest speaker.

FIAT DOBLO is primarily a delivering, not a married car. The design and ergonomics give the cargo pedigree.
Total rating of 7.9
+ Huge and comfortable trunk, spacious rear sofa.
- absence of ABS, cargo handling, the average smoothness of the stroke in an unloaded state, specific ergonomics.

Skoda Roomster An original look at the car for home and family with an unusual design, compact dimensions and a spacious interior on four.
Total rating 8.2.
+ Clear gearbox work, comfortable seats, good handling, high quality interior trim, rich optional options.
- Pretty hard suspension, rear sofa is convenient only for two adults.
 

 

 


Mikhail Gzovsky

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"